To T. H. Huxley 10 September [1860]
Summary
Sends Asa Gray’s review [of Origin]. Asks THH’s advice on getting it reprinted in England.
Hooker’s expedition to Syria.
Disgraceful review of Tyndall’s book in Athenæum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 10 Sept [1860] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 135–6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2909 |
To Asa Gray 10 September [1860]
Summary
Has received second part of AG’s Atlantic Monthly article ["Darwin on the origin of species", 6 (1860): 109–16, 229–39], and would like to have it reprinted in England with the first part.
Regrets no reviewer has touched upon embryology, which he feels provides one of his strongest arguments.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 10 Sept [1860] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (34) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2910 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Gray, Asa | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
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