To T. H. Huxley 7 January [1867]
Summary
Gives up plan to have Haeckel’s Generelle morphologie translated.
His big book [Variation] has gone to printer. Thinks of adding a chapter on man.
Will order Duke of Argyll’s book [Reign of law (1867)].
"Nature never made species mutually sterile [by selection]; nor will man.–"
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 7 Jan [1867] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 233) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5348 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To T. H. Huxley 7 January [1867] …
- … and the letter from T. H. Huxley, [before 7 January 1867] . In his letter to Huxley of …
- … natural selection (see letter from T. H. Huxley, [before 7 January 1867] and n. 15). …
- … of [before 7 January 1867] . See letter from T. H. Huxley, [before 7 January 1867] and …
To Ernst Haeckel 8 January 1867
Summary
Comments on EH’s "great work" [Generelle Morphologie].
An English translation "hopeless".
Asks about EH’s expedition.
MS of Variation sent to printers.
Fritz Müller working on plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 8 Jan 1867 |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1-52/12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5349 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … vol. 15, letter to T. H. Huxley, 7 January [1867] and n. 4. In the event, Haeckel and …
- … 14), and the letter to T. H. Huxley, 7 January [1867] ( Correspondence vol. 15). For …
- … 1867] ; see also letter to T. H. Huxley, 7 January [1867] , and L. Huxley ed. 1900 , …
- … 1: 288–9. See also letter to T. H. Huxley, 7 January [1867] and n. 3. The subtitle to …
To T. H. Huxley 12 June [1867]
Summary
Asks THH to think about a better name for "Pangenesis"; suggests "Cytarrogenesis" or "Atomogenesis", but still prefers vaguer "Pangenesis".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 12 June [1867] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 235) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5568 |
From T. H. Huxley 10 October 1871
Summary
Answers CD on transitional forms. Has no doubt Zeuglodon is transitional form between Carnivora and Cetacea.
Met Mivart in Manchester. Some doubt that he was the author of Quarterly Review article.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Oct 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 326 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8000 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Ratitae; and Carinatae (see T. H. Huxley 1867 ). In Origin 6th ed. , p. 302, CD …
- … 1867): 415–72. Huxley, Thomas Henry. 1873. Critiques and addresses. London: Macmillan. Kargon, Robert Hugh. 1977. Science in Victorian Manchester: enterprise and expertise. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ODNB : Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition. ) Edited by H. …
From William Houghton 18 October 1867
Summary
Studying freshwater Planariae. Did CD find they had nervous systems?
News of T. C. Eyton and [William?] Owen.
Author: | William Houghton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Oct 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 271 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5652 |
To T. H. Huxley 30 January [1868]
Summary
Thanks for congratulations.
Doubts THH’s response to Pangenesis will give him pleasure. "Oh Lord what a blowing up I may receive."
Still thinks THH has been too "sharp sighted" on hybridism.
Sends Mrs Huxley Queries about expression.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 30 Jan [1868] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 237) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5817 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … vol. 15, letter from T. H. Huxley, [before 7 January 1867] , and letter to T. …
- … 1867] . CD refers to Henrietta Anne Huxley . The enclosure, probably a printed questionnaire on the expression of emotions, has not been found. Number five on the questionnaire pertained to the expression of a person in low spirits (see Correspondence vol. 16, Appendix V). CD discussed crying in chapter 6 of Expression. He reported observations made on a number of infants and children, but the observers are not identified. See letter from T. H. …
To T. H. Huxley 9 October [1871]
Summary
Asks whether THH has written on affinities of Eocene cetacean Zeuglodon. Wants to cite it in 6th ed. of Origin as in some slight degree an intermediate form, but does not know how far he may venture.
Has had more evidence of profound impression of Mivart’s book [Genesis of species].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 9 Oct [1871] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 289) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7995 |
To T. H. Huxley 21 February [1868]
Summary
THH’s offer to read proof of essay on man encourages CD to write with satisfaction instead of a vague dread.
Begs Mrs Huxley not to forget corrugator supercilii in a crying child.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 21 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 260) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5408 |
From T. H. Huxley 14 April 1874
Summary
Sends his screed about the brain [for Descent], which he thinks pounds the enemy into a jelly.
Is in good health.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Apr 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 198–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9409 |
To a librarian [early September? 1854]
Summary
Will return all but two volumes; requests four titles, including Pepys’s Diaries, but not the first volume.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Librarian |
Date: | [early Sept? 1854] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Surrogate RP 9763) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1592F |
From William Marshall 2 June 1875
Summary
Discusses feather as case of evolutionary atavism.
Will soon publish on siliceous sponges
and the skin of caterpillars.
Author: | William Adolf Ludwig (William) Marshall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 June 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 48 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10006 |
To Ernst Haeckel 4 July [1867]
Summary
Congratulates EH on approaching marriage.
Sorry he will not visit in autumn.
Glad EH is re-examining Protoamoeba but puzzled to think what he can find.
Describes newspaper account of criticism by Agassiz of Generelle Morphologie.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 4 July [1867] |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1-52/15) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5578 |
From J. D. Hooker 4 February 1867
Summary
Has declined Presidency of BAAS.
Relation of insular and continental genera will always be difficult problem.
On Providence and the "continuity theory".
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Feb 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 138–142 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5390 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … see also letter from T. H. Huxley, [before 7 January 1867] ). CD’s annotation was for …
- … H. Huxley, 23 April [1853] ; see also Correspondence vol. 4, Appendix II. See Bentham and Hooker 1862 –83, 1: 930, for Bentham’s description of Thapsia. Hooker mentioned Monizia edulis (a synonym of Daucus edulis ) and Melanoselinum when noting how odd it would be if some of the plants on Madeira were found on a British island or mountain (see J. D. Hooker 1866a , p. 7, and letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 January [1867] …
From Thomas Henry Huxley [before 7 January 1867]
Summary
On Haeckel’s Generelle Morphologie; the logical argument for natural selection is still incomplete. THH jumps over the hole by an act of faith.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 7 Jan 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 134a–d |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5343 |
From William Henry Kinnaird Gibbons 7 February 1867
Author: | W. H. S Gibbons |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Feb 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 36 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5394 |
From J. V. Carus 5 April 1867
Summary
JVC is willing to translate [Variation], especially because of his conviction that progress of biology depends on proving CD’s theory.
Ernst Haeckel’s book [Generelle Morphologie (1866)] will do mischief because EH is so immoderate. Suggests CD tell EH that he has done him a bad service. CD is the only one to whom EH would listen.
Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Apr 1867 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 58 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5489 |
To Francis Galton 2 November [1875]
Summary
Has heard that FG will write on inheritance. Huxley does not believe in E. G. Balbiani’s views on subject.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 2 Nov [1875] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/17) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10237 |
To William Erasmus Darwin 27 [March 1867]
Summary
Thanks WED for a present.
Discusses the Duke of Argyll’s Reign of law [1867].
Is busy revising proofs [of Variation].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 27 [Mar 1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 121 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5466 |
To a librarian [c. June 1858 or later]
Summary
Will return Benjamin Jowett’s Epistles of St Paul (Jowett 1855) and requests several books, of which the latest is Hugh Miller’s Cruise of the Betsey (Miller 1858).
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Librarian |
Date: | [c. June 1858 or later] |
Classmark: | Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection: Edward G. and Hortense R. Levy Autograph Collection, Part 2 (OSB MSS 137) Box 25, folder 1188) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2199F |
To T. H. Huxley 7 January 1881
Summary
Success of the memorial for Wallace. Sends letter from Gladstone.
Congratulates THH on appointment as Inspector of Fisheries.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 7 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 356) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12986 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (18) |
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Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
Haeckel, Ernst | (2) |