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From T. H. Huxley   [before 14 December 1860]

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Would be glad to have Chauncey Wright’s [Origin] review for the Natural History Review.

Author:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [before 14 Dec 1860]
Classmark:  Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (39)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3022

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  • … series of the Natural History Review . George Busk , a close friend of Huxley’s, was also …

From Gideon Lincecum   29 December 1860

Summary

Gives observations on the habits of the "agricultural ant" of Texas.

Author:  Gideon Lincecum
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  29 Dec 1860
Classmark:  Linnean Society of London
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3035

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  • … 9). CD subsequently sent the letter to George Busk , zoological secretary of the Linnean …
  • … see Correspondence vol.  9, letter to George Busk, 5 April [1861] ). A section of the …

To T. H. Huxley   10 November [1860]

Summary

On the prospectus of Natural History Review. Suggests it might offer information on whether subjects that correspondents may wish to investigate have been done already.

Henrietta still very seriously ill.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  10 Nov [1860]
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 143)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2979

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  • … included, in addition to Huxley, George Busk , William Benjamin Carpenter , Frederick …

To Charles Lyell   30 July [1860]

Summary

Comments on BAAS meeting: "our side seems to have got on very well". Asa Gray, too, is fighting nobly.

Comments on review [by Samuel Wilberforce] in the Quarterly [Rev. 108 (1860): 225–64].

Mentions a favourable review in the London Review.

Wonders if German translation [of the Origin] by Bronn has drawn attention to the subject.

The Natural History Review to be edited by Huxley and others.

Expects CL’s book [Antiquity of man (1863)] to be a bombshell.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  30 July [1860]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.222)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2881

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  • … editors also included John Lubbock , George Busk , William Benjamin Carpenter , Philip …