From T. H. Huxley 20 February 1863
Summary
Has not answered CD’s former letters. Has been ill. Will look up fish business as soon as he is square again.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Feb 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 297 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4001 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … From T. H. Huxley 20 February 1863 …
- … I will look up the fish business Ever | Yours faithfully | T H Huxley Feb. 20 th 1863 …
- … in London (see letter to T. H. Huxley, [8 February 1863] ). CD had consulted Huxley on …
- … on polydactylism (see letters to T. H. Huxley, [8 February 1863] and 16 February [1863] , …
- … See letter to T. H. Huxley, 18 [February 1863] . The reference is to Huxley’s Evidence …
- … on T. H. Huxley 1863b in his letter to Huxley of 26 [February 1863] . Huxley refers to …
To T. H. Huxley 3 July [1863]
Summary
Will be obliged if Flower examines specimens. States questions he wants answered.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 3 July [1863] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 229) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4232 |
To T. H. Huxley 27 June [1863]
Summary
Has caught a frog and examined its possibly rudimentary toe. Asks THH if he will dissect it.
Has heard THH is abused in Edinburgh Review and in Anthropological Review [reviews of Man’s place in nature, Edinburgh Rev. 117 (1863): 541–69 and Anthrop. Rev. 1 (1863): 107–17].
Owen on heterogeny and the aye-aye.
Has been very ill.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 27 June [1863] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 225) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4223 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … To T. H. Huxley 27 June [1863] …
- … this letter and the letter from T. H. Huxley, 2 July 1863 . CD refers to Roget 1834 , 1: …
- … 544, and to the letter to T. H. Huxley, 16 February [1863] . See also …
- … letter to T. H. Huxley, [after 16 February 1863] . Rarissima avis: ‘the rarest bird’; …
- … Blake. See also letter from T. H. Huxley, 2 July 1863 . CD’s annotated copy of the issue …
- … Blake’s anonymous review of T. H. Huxley 1863b in the April 1863 number of the Edinburgh …
- … T. H. Huxley 1863b in more virulent terms ( Anthropological Review 1 (1863): 153–62). …
- … appeared in May 1863. It contained an anonymous review of T. H. Huxley 1863b that, while …
From T. H. Huxley 2 July 1863
Summary
Too busy to examine specimen. Will ask W. H. Flower to do it. Long catalogue of what keeps him busy and concerned.
C. Carter Blake, "a jackal of Owen’s", is the reviewer in Edinburgh Review and Anthropological Review [see 4223]. Has sent back his diploma of Hon. Fellowship to Anthropological Society.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 July 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 298 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4228 |
Matches: 11 hits
- … From T. H. Huxley 2 July 1863 …
- … See letter to T. H. Huxley, 27 June [1863] . William Henry Flower . …
- … March [1863] . See letter to T. H. Huxley, 27 June [1863] and n. 18. The reference is …
- … vol. 8). See letter to T. H. Huxley, 27 June [1863] and n. 13. Huxley refers to …
- … of New York in May or early June 1863 ( T. H. Huxley 1863d ; see American Publishers’ …
- … 7 , 1: 315–16). See letter to T. H. Huxley, 27 June [1863] and n. 12. Huxley refers to …
- … pp. 245–54. See letter to T. H. Huxley, 27 June [1863] and n. 16. Huxley refers to the …
- … H. Huxley 1863c . Huxley was appointed Hunterian Professor of comparative anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1863 ( …
- … H. Huxley 1863b in the Edinburgh Review ([Blake] 1863a), and to Blake’s pseudonymous letter on the subject in the Anthropological Review 1 (1863): …
- … 1863] and n. 1. Huxley apparently refers to the manner in which the account in T. H. …
- … H. Huxley 1865 . Thomas Oldham was the director of the Geological Survey of India ( Sarjeant 1980–96 ). Joseph Dalton Hooker was one of the eleven editors of the Natural History Review , of which Huxley was the editor-in-chief (see letter from Charles Lyell, 15 March 1863 , …
To T. H. Huxley [after 16 February 1863]
Summary
A note reminding THH to examine the rudiment of the 6th toe on the hind foot of a Batrachian.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [after 16 Feb 1863] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 202) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3992F |
To W. H. Flower 11 July [1863]
Summary
Discusses rudimentary sixth toe of frogs.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Henry Flower |
Date: | 11 July [1863] |
Classmark: | John Innes Foundation Historical Collections |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4559 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … to answer CD’s questions (see letter from T. H. Huxley, 2 July 1863 , and letter to T. …
- … H. Huxley, 3 July [1863] ). The ‘great men’ referred to in Flower’s letter have not been …
- … letter and the letter to T. H. Huxley, 3 July [1863] . The letter from Flower has not …
- … dissection (see letters to T. H. Huxley, 16 February [1863] and 27 June [1863] ). Huxley …
To T. H. Huxley 18 [February 1863]
Summary
Thanks for "monkey book" [Evidence as to man’s place in nature (1863)].
Must wait till he has finished Lyell [Antiquity of man (1863)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 18 [Feb 1863] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 173) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3996 |
From T. H. Huxley 25 February 1863
Summary
Pleads guilty to both criticisms of "Miss Henrietta Minor Rhadamanthus Darwin" [see 3896] of points in his Lectures [to working men].
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Feb 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 299 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4010 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … From T. H. Huxley 25 February 1863 …
- … See letter to T. H. Huxley, [before 25 February 1863] . The reference is to Henrietta ( …
- … sent his comments on T. H. Huxley 1863b in his letter to Huxley of 26 [February 1863] . …
- … in nature ( T. H. Huxley 1863b ), was first published on 20 February 1863 by the London …
From J. D. Hooker [12 January 1863]
Summary
Huxley’s lectures [Man’s place in nature (1863)]; he would be a scientific H. T. Buckle, if he were more careful.
Asks CD what the evidence is for inheritance of acquired characteristics.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [12 Jan 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 98 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3892 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Huxley’s lectures [ Man’s place in nature (1863)]; he would be a scientific H. T. Buckle, …
- … letter to T. H. Huxley, 10 [January 1863] and n. 2. T. H. Huxley 1863a , pp. 83–157. …
- … however, see the letter to J. D. Hooker, 13 January [1863] . T. H. Huxley 1863a . See …
- … 1862] ). See letter to T. H. Huxley, 10 [January 1863] and n. 4. In his letter to …
To T. H. Huxley 26 [February 1863]
Summary
Praise of Man’s place.
Owen’s muddling letter in Athenæum [21 Feb 1863, pp. 262–3].
Is disappointed in Lyell’s excessive caution on species and origin of man [in Antiquity of man].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 26 [Feb 1863] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 191) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4013 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To T. H. Huxley 26 [February 1863] …
- … and the letter from T. H. Huxley, 25 February 1863 . CD refers to Huxley’s Evidence as …
- … nature (see letter from T. H. Huxley, 25 February 1863 , n. 4). In his letter to CD of …
- … H Huxley 1863a . CD refers to Owen’s letter published in the Athenæum on 21 February 1863, …
- … T. H. Huxley 1863b , pp. 113–18). In his letter in the Athenæum , 21 February 1863, …
To T. H. Huxley 16 February [1863]
Summary
It is not carpal or tarsal bones that are increased [in six-fingered men] but generally only the digits and metacarpals.
Pectoral fins of fish and sharks.
Asks THH to check P. M. Roget’s statement that there is a rudiment of a sixth digit in frogs.
[P.S. missing from original.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 16 Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 200) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3987 |
To T. H. Huxley [8 February 1863]
Summary
On six-fingered men: suspects increase confined to metacarpals and digits. Has asked James Paget to look it up.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [8 Feb 1863] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 19) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3973 |
From T. H. Huxley 1 May 1865
Summary
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 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 January [1863]
Summary
Acquired characteristics.
Huxley’s lectures: good on induction, bad on sterility, obscure on geology.
Asa Gray on slavery.
Falconer’s partial conversion.
Alphonse de Candolle on Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 13 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 179 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3913 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … 1863a . See letter to T. H. Huxley, 10 [January 1863] , and letter from J. D. Hooker, [ …
- … 1761–6 ). See letter to T. H. Huxley, 10 [January 1863] , and Correspondence vol. 10, …
- … and letter to T. H. Huxley, 10 [January 1863] and n. 4. Letter from Asa Gray, 29 …
- … 1863, CD began writing up his ‘Chapter on Inheritance’ for Variation , eventually published as chapters 12–14 ( Variation 2: 1–84; see ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol. 11, Appendix II)). Thomas Henry Huxley presented an evening lecture series for working men at the Museum of Practical Geology in London during November and December 1862; the lectures were published as T. H. …
- … H. Huxley 1863a , pp. 153–6. While arguing that ‘man differs to no greater extent from the animals which are immediately below him than these do from other members of the same order’, Huxley wrote that it was largely the power of language that distinguished man ‘from the whole of the brute world’ ( ibid. , pp. 154–5). See letter from J. D. Hooker, [12 January 1863] , …
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 John Lubbock [1 January 1864]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [1 Jan 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 61 (EH 88206505) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4375 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … vol. 11, letter to T. H. Huxley, 10 [January 1863] . Lubbock 1865b . CD probably saw the …
- … is in the Darwin Library–CUL. T. H. Huxley 1863 was the bound version of Huxley’s …
- … 1863] , and Appendix II). Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) for 1 January 1864 records: ‘acid sickness 8 – good day billiards’. Lubbock’s review of Thomas Henry Huxley’s On our knowledge of the causes of the phenomena of organic nature ( T. H. …
From St G. J. Mivart 25 April 1870
Summary
Apologises for saying more than was necessary in his previous letter. Although he feels gratitude and esteem for CD, he execrates those who use natural selection to oppose man’s higher interests and impede his advance. Has seen Huxley’s Man’s place in nature for sale among a crowd of obscenities at most Italian railway stations.
Author: | St George Jackson Mivart |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Apr 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 187 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7173 |
From Charles Lyell 15 March 1863
Summary
Lyell has received compliments for letting readers draw own inferences [on species question]. Now feels he earlier did Lamarck injustice. [CD’s] substitution of variety-making power for volition [as in Lamarck] in some respects only a change of names.
Thinks Huxley taking on too many responsibilities.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Mar 1863 |
Classmark: | K. M. Lyell ed. 1881, 2: 364–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4041 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 1863b . See letter from T. H. Huxley, 25 February 1863 and n. 4, …
- … and letter to T. H. Huxley, 26 [February 1863] and n. 6. See also letter to Charles …
- … H. Huxley, 20 July [1860] ). Lyell refers to James Manby Gully’s hydropathic establishment at Great Malvern, Worcestershire (see letter to Charles Lyell, 12–13 March [1863] ). …
- … 1863] , n. 9. In C. Lyell 1863a , p. 412, Lyell observed: One of the principal claims of Mr. Darwin’s theory to acceptance is, that it enables us to dispense with a law of progression as a necessary accompaniment of variation. It will account equally well for what is called degradation, or retrograde movement towards a simpler structure T. H. Huxley …
To Lawson Tait 2 March 1876
Summary
Thanks RLT for his letter. CD took much trouble over his two cases [regrowth of amputated supernumerary digits, in Variation] but the evidence was shaky.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Date: | 2 Mar 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 527 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10414 |
From J. D. Hooker [15 January 1863]
Summary
JDH on Asa Gray’s sanguine view of the Civil War and slavery.
Wishes to discuss variation with CD, a subject that Huxley does not understand.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15 Jan 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 101–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3919 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 146–50). See letter to T. H. Huxley, 10 [January 1863] and nn. 5–9, and Correspondence …
- … Down. T. H. Huxley 1863a , pp. 153–6. In his letter to Hooker of 13 January [1863] , CD …
- … 1863] and n. 14). The reference is to Thomas Henry Huxley’s six lectures to working men ( T. H. …
- … Huxley 1863a ) delivered at the Museum of Practical Geology in London between 10 November and 15 December 1862. The lectures were entitled ‘On our knowledge of the causes of organic phenomena’. In his letter to Hooker of 13 January [1863] , CD praised the lectures but admitted he had ‘quarrelled’ with Huxley about ‘overdoing sterility’ (see T. H. …
letter | (105) |
Darwin, C. R. | (49) |
Huxley, T. H. | (15) |
Hooker, J. D. | (11) |
Lyell, Charles | (6) |
Gray, Asa | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (104) |
Huxley, T. H. | (26) |
Hooker, J. D. | (21) |
Lyell, Charles | (8) |
Gray, Asa | (6) |