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To T. H. Huxley   3 October [1864]

Summary

Admires THH’s article on Kölliker’s and Flourens’ criticisms of Origin [in Natural History Review (1864): 566–80].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  3 Oct [1864]
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 205)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4624

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  • … D.  Hooker, 28 August [1864] , and letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 30 August 1864 . The second …
  • 1864 is in the Darwin Library–CUL; on the back cover CD wrote: ‘p.  566 Huxley on Kolliker excellent— must be reread. Excellent on unconscious selection— If cold came on how plants w d spread. — All excellent. —’ CD had been dissuaded from answering Kölliker himself by Charles Lyell and Joseph Dalton Hooker . See letter to J.   …

To T. H. Huxley   11 April [1864]

Summary

Thanks for Lectures on the elements of comparative anatomy [1864].

If Owen wrote article on "Oken" [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 8th ed.] and French work on archetype he never did a baser act [see ML 1: 246 n.].

Bad health lately.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  11 Apr [1864]
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 203)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4459

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  • … II). See also letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 26 [–7] March [1864] and nn.  2, 3, and 10. CD …

To T. H. Huxley   4 October [1865]

Summary

Has done nothing since 1 May. Slowly getting better under Bence Jones’s diet.

The Reader has been sold – would regret its failure as a newspaper for general science.

Pangenesis is recovering from shock it received from THH’s criticism.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  4 Oct [1865]
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 223)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4909

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  • Hooker in August 1865 and to the letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [26 September 1865] . See letter from F.  H.  Hooker, 6 September [1865] and nn.  2 and 5. The reference is to Thomas Bendyshe (see letter from A.  R. Wallace, 2 October 1865  and n.  3). CD’s Account book–banking account (Down House MS) records an investment of £80 in the Reader Limited Company on 24 November 1864, …

From T. H. Huxley   29 May 1865

Summary

Glad to read what CD sends. Any glimmer of light on those subjects is of utmost importance.

Quotes a letter from Haeckel on progress of Darwinism in Germany.

Author:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  29 May 1865
Classmark:  DAR 166: 307
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4838

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  • … Haeckel, 8 October [1864] , and letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 8 October [1864] . CD had at …
  • … Kölliker himself (see letters to J.  D.  Hooker, 28 August [1864] and [1 September 1864] , …

From T. H. Huxley   5 October 1864

Summary

Surprised at Kölliker’s misunderstanding; of Flourens he could have believed anything.

Family news.

Author:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  5 Oct 1864
Classmark:  DAR 166: 302
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4627

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  • … in pencil (see letter from J.  D.  Hooker, [26 or 27 April 1864] and n.  2). The reference …

From T. H. Huxley   18 April 1864

Summary

No doubt that Owen wrote "Oken" and the archetype book, which appeared in its second edition in French.

Pressures of work and family.

Author:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  18 Apr 1864
Classmark:  DAR 166: 301
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4465

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  • … and n.  6, and letter to J.  D.  Hooker, 13 April [1864] and nn.  5 and 6. For Huxley’s …
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