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From T. H. Huxley   1 May 1865

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Sends Catalogue [of the collection of fossils in the Museum of Practical Geology (1865)], most of which was written in pre-Darwinian epoch [i.e., 1857].

Hears magnum opus [Variation] completely developed, though not yet born.

Author:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 May 1865
Classmark:  DAR 166: 306
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4824

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  • … 1857] , and letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 25 December [1857] ). In the preface, Huxley argued …

To T. H. Huxley   27 May [1865]

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Thanks for Catalogue.

Has had a bad month. Somewhat improved as a result of John Chapman’s ice-bag cures.

Asks THH to read MS on his hypothesis Pangenesis. THH only man whose judgment on it would be final with him.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  27 May [1865]
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 214)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4837

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  • … 1857] , and letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 25 December [1857] ). According to Emma Darwin’s …
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