From T. H. Huxley 2 December 1862
Summary
Sends first three of his Lectures to working men [on our knowledge of the phenomena of organic nature (1863)]. Does not intend them to be widely circulated.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Dec 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 296 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3841 |
From T. H. Huxley 6 May 1862
Summary
Glad to receive CD’s pat on back for address.
Wants to know what CD thinks of the argument on geological contemporaneity.
On his poor health.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 May 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 293 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3535 |
To T. H. Huxley 10 May [1862]
Summary
Nearly agrees on contemporaneity, but THH pushes his ideas too far. Would require strong evidence before believing that the so-called Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous strata could be contemporaneous. Thinks THH’s case on advancement of organisation is strong. But he should read Bronn, before publishing again, and say more on other side. Cannot help hoping he is not as right as he seems to be.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 10 May [1862] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 171) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3542 |
To T. H. Huxley 14 [January 1862]
Summary
On success of THH’s Edinburgh lectures.
Agrees that THH is right that the hybrid question is a "hiatus" [in the argument for natural selection] but he overrates it. Crossed varieties frequently produce sterile offspring. On this question asks THH to read his Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63]. CD suspects sterility will come to be viewed as a selected character.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 14 [Jan 1862] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 167) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3386 |
To T. H. Huxley 7 December [1862]
Summary
On THH’s Lectures to working men.
Work by Ferdinand J. Cohn on the contractile tissue of plants ["Über contractile Gewebe im Pflanzenreich" Abh. Schlesischen Ges. Vaterl. Cult. 1 (1861)] seems important. CD has come to the conclusion that there must be some substance in plants analogous to the supposed diffused nervous matter in lower animals.
[Part of P.S. missing from original.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 7 Dec [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 145: 227, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 179) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3848 |
From T. H. Huxley 9 October 1862
Summary
The BAAS meeting at Cambridge was exhausting.
Owen came to attack him but was beaten; his paper fell flat.
A "society for propagation of common honesty in all parts of the world" was established at Cambridge [THH’s "Thorough Club"?].
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Oct 1862 |
Classmark: | DAR 166.2: 294 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3755 |
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