To T. H. Huxley 13 September [1854]
Summary
Thanks for help on presentation copies of Living Cirripedia, vol. 2.
Suggests he examine cementing apparatus of Balanus.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 13 Sept [1854] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 16) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1592 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To T. H. Huxley 13 September [1854] …
- … Vogt . See letters to T. H. Huxley, 2 September [1854] and 8 September [1854] . Huxley …
- … his stays at Tenby in 1854 and 1855 (see letter to T. H. Huxley, 29 [September 1855] ). …
- … II. Living Cirripedia (1854): 95–7. In T. H. Huxley 1857 , p. 239, Huxley stated: ‘ …
To T. H. Huxley 8 September [1854]
Summary
Agrees with THH on metamorphosis of branchiae of Balanus, and on his view of Owen.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 8 Sept [1854] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1590 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To T. H. Huxley 8 September [1854] …
- … im Breisgau. See letter to T. H. Huxley, 2 September [1854] , n. 4. Karl Georg Friedrich …
- … the ovaria. See letter to T. H. Huxley, 2 September [1854] and n. 5. Franz von Leydig , …
- … 1854): 65, CD wrote: ‘I can hardly doubt that the branchiæ in the Balanidæ are the ovigerous fræna of the Lepadidæ in a modified condition; a transformation of function not greater than that of the swimming bladder of a fish into the lungs of the higher Vertebrata. ’ Huxley had apparently dissected Balanus specimens found at Tenby. In T. H. …
To T. H. Huxley [9 December 1859]
Summary
Sends enclosure [unspecified].
Reminds THH to mention [German] translation [of Origin] when he writes to R. A. von Kölliker.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [9 Dec 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 145: 189 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2574 |
To T. H. Huxley 20 February [1855]
Summary
Sends specimens of sessile cirripedes for corroboration of their cementing apparatus.
Absence of anus in Brachiopoda and Alcippe cirripedes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 20 Feb [1855] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 23, 372, 376) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1635 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … below). See letters to T. H. Huxley, 8 September [1854] and 13 September [1854] . Huxley …
- … 1854b . Living Cirripedia (1854): 546. T. H. Huxley 1855a . CD’s copy is in the Darwin …
- … 1854) , p. 134, where CD described the cementing apparatus in Lepadidae. It was his view that ‘the two cement-glands, with their contents, actually consist of ovarian tubes with their contents … in a modified condition. ’ CD described the ovigerous fraena of the Lepadidae and the glandular bodies associated with them in Living Cirripedia (1851): 58–61. T. H. Huxley …
To T. H. Huxley 2 September [1854]
Summary
Second Living Cirripedia volume published. Asks THH’s advice on presentation copies for continental naturalists.
THH’s review of Vestiges of creation in [Br. & Foreign Med.-Chir. Rev. 13 (1854)]. CD is almost as unorthodox on species as the author of Vestiges, but hopes not quite so unphilosophical.
Hopes L. Agassiz was sounder on embryological stages than THH thinks.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 2 Sept [1854] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1587 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … To T. H. Huxley 2 September [1854] …
- … H. Huxley 1854a , p. 432). CD refers to Agassiz’s view that the fossil sequence of the palaeontological record is a historical representation of the stages in the embryological development of the four main branches of the animal kingdom. See the reference to ‘Agassiz’s embryonic fish’ in letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 September [1854] , …
- … 1854) in the Cambridge University Library). They were subsequently deleted and only some of the names reinstated: the following names were added, presumably upon the advice of Huxley: Siebold, Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages, Karl Georg Friedrich Rudolf Leuckart , Koelliker, August David Krohn , and Carl Vogt . CD marked these names with an ‘S’, indicating that copies had been sent. Huxley’s review ( T. H. …
To J. D. Hooker 7 March [1855]
Summary
Latitude overrules everything in distribution. Alpine distributions are like insular. Tabulating proportions.
T. V. Wollaston’s Madeira insects: many flightless, thus not blown to sea. TVW’s insects do not confirm Forbes’s Atlantis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 7 Mar [1855] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 126 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1643 |
To T. H. Huxley 29 [September 1855]
Summary
Responds to THH’s questioning of his observations on cirripede anatomy with extensive discussion of what he observed. Admits his elementary knowledge of microscopical structures but seriously doubts he has erred. Cement glands, ovarian tubes, etc.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 29 [Sept 1855] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 21); Janet Huxley (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1757 |
To T. H. Huxley 28 December [1859]
Summary
Delighted with Times review [26 Dec 1859]. Puzzled by author, suspects THH, but publication in Times makes it unlikely. Sorry for Owen.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 28 Dec [1859] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 92) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2611 |
From James Shaw 20 November 1865
Summary
Praises CD’s theory.
Comments on criticism of CD’s work by Duke of Argyll.
Beauty in nature as caused by sexual selection.
Author: | James Shaw |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Nov 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 149 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4939 |
To Charles Lyell 28 [September 1860]
Summary
Discusses extinction of ammonites.
Discusses August Krohn’s cirripede research and Krohn’s correction of his own work.
Discusses origin of dog in connection with origin of man.
Comments on the guinea-pig in South America.
Notes K. E. von Baer’s view of species.
Mentions difficulty of crossing rabbit and hare.
Agrees with Hooker’s views on variation under cultivation and in nature.
Regrets use of term "natural selection", would now use "Natural Preservation".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 28 [Sept 1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.229) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2931 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Cirripedia (1854) to Krohn (see Correspondence vol. 5, letter to T. H. Huxley, 2 …
- … 1854 ) in supposing that the horns of the carapace of the larva metamorphosed into what CD called the ‘prehensile antennæ’ of the mature individual ( Krohn 1860a , p. 7 n. ). Krohn had earlier pointed out CD’s error in believing that the ‘gut-formed glands’ were part of a continuous organ that included the cement ducts and the peduncular tubules ( Krohn 1859 ). Thomas Henry Huxley had tentatively confirmed CD’s observations on these points in T. H. …
To James Dwight Dana 21 December [1856]
Summary
Thanks for sending paper on geological development (Dana 1856). Discusses infertility of species. Discusses first part of Asa Gray’s paper (A. Gray 1856–7). Thanks for note on the Cave Rat. Discusses a new species of fossil cirripede, in the genus Chthamalus. Explains his interest in pigeon breeding.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
Date: | 21 Dec [1856] |
Classmark: | Catherine Barnes (dealer) (2003) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2020F |
To J. D. Hooker 7 July [1854]
Summary
CD’s view requires only that ancient organisms resemble embryological stages of existing ones. Thus "highness" in plants is difficult to evaluate because they have no larval stages. Would compare highest members of two groups, rather than archetype, to determine which group was higher. Against Forbes’s polarity and parallelism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 7 July [1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 123 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1577 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 29 June 1854] ). For CD’s view of archetypes, see letter to T. H. Huxley, 23 April [ …
- … H. Huxley 1853b in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection– CUL. Louis Agassiz had pointed out, with special reference to fossil fish, that the earliest known forms of each principal group are frequently not the lowest in grade of development ( Agassiz 1833–43 , 1: xvii–xxxii). William Benjamin Carpenter addressed this issue in Carpenter 1854 . …
To J. D. Hooker 7 September [1854]
Summary
On individuality.
Huxley’s review exquisite, but too severe on Vestiges; sorry for ridicule of Agassiz’s embryonic fishes.
Stonesfield mammals.
J. O. Westwood deserves Royal Society Medal.
Will begin species work in a few days.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 7 Sept [1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 124 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1588 |
To George Rolleston 5 September [1861]
Summary
GR’s letter is a gold-mine.
Pleased to have Pierre Gratiolet’s comment on the embryology of greatly modified organs
and GR’s valuable cases of analogous variation.
Doubts craniologists, but recounts his father’s opinion that the shape of CD’s head was altered when he returned from the Beagle.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Rolleston |
Date: | 5 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | Royal College of Physicians of London (ALS/D12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3245 |
To John Murray 15 October [1859]
Summary
Discusses presentation copies [of the Origin].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 15 Oct [1859] |
Classmark: | DAR R 143 (with R. F. Cooke correspondence) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2506 |
To Mrs Stutchbury 22 August 1854
Summary
Arranges to return a collection of cirripedes which belongs to her husband [Samuel Stutchbury].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hannah Louisa Bernard; Hannah Louisa Stutchbury |
Date: | 22 Aug 1854 |
Classmark: | Matthews 1982, p. 262 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1579A |
To Armand de Quatrefages 4 January [1856]
Summary
The information correspondent hopes to get from M.-J.-P. Flourens will be valuable.
CD is keeping all varieties of pigeons, poultry, ducks, etc. for his work on variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau |
Date: | 4 Jan [1856] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.144) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2036 |
To T. H. Huxley 4 May [1856]
Summary
It seems improper that his advances to G. B. Sowerby Jr for payment of engravings should not have been mentioned to Council of Ray Society. His appreciation of the Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 4 May [1856] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 35) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1868 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … H. Huxley 1859b in the Cambridge University Library). George Brettingham Sowerby Jr had drawn the figures for Living Cirripedia (1851) and (1854), …
- … 1854 was he awarded £300 from the government grant administered by the Royal Society. The Ray Society undertook to publish the work, but this was delayed until 1859 owing to Huxley’s ‘heavy official duties’ and the great number of other publications undertaken by the Ray Society in the intervening years. See the preface to T. H. …
To T. H. Huxley 23 April [1853]
Summary
On THH’s paper on cephalous Mollusca [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 143 (1853) pt 1: 29–66]. Discovery of the type or "idea" (in THH’s sense, not Owen’s or Agassiz’s) is one of the highest ends of natural history.
Discusses anamorphism;
position of heart in Cleodora.
Variability within species;
cementing process in cirripedes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 23 Apr [1853] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1480 |
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