To T. H. Huxley 9 July [1869]
Summary
Haeckel wants British specimens of calcareous sponges. Can THH tell him to whom he can apply?
Health not improving – cannot climb even a hill.
Has heard THH’s article on Comte ["Scientific aspects of Positivism", Lay sermons (1870)] is a splendid success.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 9 July [1869] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 271) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6823 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To T. H. Huxley 9 July [1869] …
- … 1869a ). See letters to T. H. Huxley, 10 March 1869 and 12 March [1869] , and letter …
- … 1869 issue of the Fortnightly Review. Huxley had also criticised the positivist philosophy of Auguste Comte in an earlier article ( T. H. …
- … July 1869 . CD refers to ‘The scientific aspects of positivism’ ( T. H. Huxley 1869b ), …
To T. H. Huxley 8 May [1869]
Summary
Thanks for [D. D. Cunningham’s] letter. Had hoped for a better haul but delighted to hear of the curious fossil.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 8 May [1869] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 268) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6735 |
From T. H. Huxley 17 March 1869
Summary
Last letter was written to be passed on for Lushington’s edification. "(Standing on the points of my toes and my tail very stiff)." Is tiring of controversy as a waste of time. Begins to understand CD’s sufferings over Origin.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 318 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6665 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From T. H. Huxley 17 March 1869 …
- … refers to Vernon Lushington . See letter from T. H. Huxley, 11 March 1869 . CD wrote his …
- … hatching his own particular maggot of an idea Ever yours | T. H. Huxley March 17. 1869 …
- … Huxley’s letter of 11 March 1869 (see letter to Vernon Lushington, [12 March 1869] , and letter to T. H. …
To T. H. Huxley 19 March [1869]
Summary
Thanks for THH’s address [to Geological Society, Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 25 (1869): 28–53]. Admires it and enjoyed attack on William Thomson hugely, but would tremble if he were in THH’s boots. Distinction made by THH between evolutionists and uniformitarians is too great. CD’s sentences on age of world in Origin will do, but he might have been less timid had he read THH.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 19 Mar [1869] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 266) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6670 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … To T. H. Huxley 19 March [1869] …
- … not dispute the evidence for his findings. See letter from T. H. Huxley, 17 March 1869 . …
- … this letter and the letter from T. H. Huxley, 17 March 1869 . CD refers to Huxley’s …
- … Society of London on 19 February 1869 ( T. H. Huxley 1869c ). Huxley’s address was a …
From T. H. Huxley 11 March 1869
Summary
Nothing new in Lushington’s letter. Two paragraphs are offensive – that THH sought to stir up Scotch Presbyterian prejudices against Comte at Edinburgh and that he had not read Comte.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 317 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6654 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From T. H. Huxley 11 March 1869 …
- … the philosophy of Auguste Comte (see letter to T. H. Huxley, 10 March 1869 and n. 2). …
- … See letter to T. H. Huxley, 10 March 1869 and n. 2. Lushington’s letter has not been …
- … Fortnightly Review for 1 February 1869 ( T. H. Huxley 1869a ) was based on a talk that …
To T. H. Huxley 12 March [1869]
Summary
Apologises for passing on what he agrees were offensive remarks in V. Lushington’s letter. Has told VL he had no right to make them. Asks THH to make allowance for red-hot disciples defending the master.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 12 Mar [1869] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 264) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6658 |
To Vernon Lushington [12 March 1869]
Summary
Huxley has acknowledged receipt of VL’s letter. Both he and CD feel that some of VL’s statements were a little offensive although CD is sure this was not intended. Was glad to read the condensed statement of Comte’s claims in VL’s letter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Vernon Lushington |
Date: | [12 Mar 1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 74 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6660 |
To T. H. Huxley 14 October 1869
Summary
Delighted with THH’s review [in Academy (1869)] of Haeckel’s [Natürliche] Schöpfungsgeschichte [1868],
but groans about THH’s view of rudimentary organs. Cites Origin and Variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 14 Oct 1869 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 277) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6936 |
To T. H. Huxley 1 October [1869]
Summary
V. O. Kovalevsky, Russian translator [of Variation], wishes to hear THH lecture.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 1 Oct [1869] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 275) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6922 |
From T. H. Huxley 16 July 1869
Summary
Has already referred Haeckel’s request to J. S. Bowerbank.
Has lost track of collectors and naturalists "by grace of the dredge" because of other work and ""the great question of "Darwinismus" which is such a worry to us all"".
Family health.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 July 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 320 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6830 |
From T. H. Huxley 28 September 1869
Summary
Will do his best on the tooth [sent by CD] but does not put much weight on conclusions based on a single tooth of a horse.
Darwin attacked by three clergymen at BAAS meeting [Exeter, 1869].
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Sept 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 321 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6914 |
From H. E. Darwin 21 March [1871]
Summary
Is delighted at the sale of Descent. What CD says about her help pleases her very much and the proposed gift as a memorial will be very precious to her. Is looking forward to seeing the family in London. Comments on a letter comparing CD's appearance to an ape. Is surprised CD has had no effect on Wallace: 'It seems to me his mind can’t be so clear as u used to think it'. Has worked out why she is dissatisfied with T. H. Huxley's essay ‘On the physical basis of life’ (T. H. Huxley 1869).
Author: | Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 44) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7605F |
To Ernst Haeckel 3 August [1869]
Summary
Suggests Englishmen who might provide sponge specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | 3 Aug [1869] |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/22) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6850 |
To Albany Hancock 17 July [1869]
Summary
Ernst Haeckel is working on calcareous sponges. Does AH have any British specimens that he can spare? [See 6842.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
Date: | 17 July [1869] |
Classmark: | E. C. Hodgkin (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6834A |
To J. D. Hooker 30 March [1869]
Summary
Interested in Barkly’s letter about Mauritius. Doubts non-volcanic origin. Urges collection of all forms of terrestrial life to determine whether they are of a former continent or "waifs and strays". He leans to latter view, as snakes and reptiles are different.
Huxley’s address wonderfully "brilliant", but it is a mistake to separate evolutionists from uniformitarians.
Bentham has come out "splendidly" on descent of species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 Mar [1869] |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 121–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6688 |
From T. H. Huxley 7 May 1869
Summary
H. M. S. Nassau, surveying Magellan Straits, has found fossils at Gallegos River. They have been sent to THH by R. O. Cunningham [naturalist of H. M. S. Nassau]. Skull of entirely new ungulate mammal.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 May 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 319 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6732 |
To T. H. Huxley 21 September [1869]
Summary
James Orton, U. S. naturalist, has sent him a tooth from skull of a horse found in Quito, Ecuador in deposits containing Mastodon, etc. JO asked CD to send it to Owen, but, since he does not communicate with Owen, he is sending it to THH.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 21 Sept [1869] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 273) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6901 |
To A. R. Wallace [19 February 1872]
Summary
Sends 6th ed. of Origin;
draws attention to his criticism of ARW’s estimate of Kovalevsky;
mentions his disagreement with much of Spencer’s doctrine
and in a postscript points out an inaccuracy in an article in Once a Month.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
Date: | [19 Feb 1872] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8211 |
To T. H. Huxley 30 September [1871]
Summary
On THH’s review [see 7977] of Mivart’s Genesis of species and the Quarterly Review article on Descent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 30 Sept [1871] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 283) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7976 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … see Correspondence vol. 17, letter to T. H. Huxley, 9 July [1869] , and letter to J. …
- … H. Huxley, 28 September 1871 and n. 4. See letter to J. D. Hooker, 30 September [1871] . An article by Mivart, harshly critical of the theological implications of natural selection, was published in the Roman Catholic journal the Month in July 1869 ( [ …
- … 1869] . In T. H. Huxley 1871b , pp. 460–7, Huxley criticised the definition of reason given in [Mivart] 1871c, p. 67: ‘That in which we reflect upon our sensations or perceptions, and ask what they are and why they are’. CD referred to T. H. …
From E. A. Darwin to Emma Darwin 24 April [1873]
Summary
Lady Lyell has died of typhoid.
Herbert Spencer is anxious to know about the state of affairs [fund for Huxley].
Edinburgh Review article [review of Expression, Edinburgh Rev. 137 (1873): 492–528] is "a thoroughly nasty unfair review as ever I read".
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | 24 Apr [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B88 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8874 |
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