To T. H. Huxley 6 January 1875
Summary
Thanks THH for his article in the Academy and his defence of CD and G. H. Darwin against Mivart. Still thinks he should write plainly to Mivart.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 6 Jan 1875 |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 313) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9804 |
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- … letter from T. H. Huxley, 23 December 1874 ). See also ibid. , Appendix V. Samuel Wilberforce , the bishop of Oxford, died in 1873. In his article in the Academy , Huxley referred scathingly to an anonymous review of Origin in the Quarterly Review ; the review was in fact by Wilberforce and had been suspected to be by Wilberforce almost from the first by CD ( [Wilberforce] 1860 ; …
To J. D. Hooker 6 January [1875]
Summary
Is not inclined to restrain himself from expressing his opinion of Mivart. Huxley’s article in Academy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 6 Jan [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 365–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9805 |
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- … 1860] . In his letter of 3 January [1875] , Hooker had written to CD that he was going to consult Thomas Henry Huxley about what action he should take over St George Jackson Mivart’s anonymous attack on George Howard Darwin in the Quarterly Review ( [Mivart] 1874 , p. 70). John Lubbock’s book was on British wild flowers ( Lubbock 1875 ). In his review of Ernst Haeckel’s Anthropogenie ( Haeckel 1874 ) in the Academy , 2 January 1875, pp. 16–17, Thomas Henry Huxley had criticised the insinuations of the ‘anonymous reviewer’ against G. H. …
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Addressee
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
