To T. H. Huxley [before 25 February 1863]
Summary
Two criticisms (one by Henrietta Darwin) of THH’s Lectures [to working men].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [before 25 Feb 1863] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 181) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3896 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … To T. H. Huxley [before 25 February 1863] …
- … H. Huxley 1863a are in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 423–4). See n. 2, above. CD had been working on atavism in the course of preparing a draft of the chapters on inheritance for Variation (see Variation 2: 28–61, and letter from Henry Holland [10 February 1863] ). …
To Annie Dowie 27 July 1875
Summary
Has previously quoted details concerning the regrowth of her amputated extra digit in Variation [2: 14–15]. The case has since been disputed, so CD, who is revising his work, asks for some fuller details.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Anne (Annie) Chambers; Anne (Annie) Dowie |
Date: | 27 July 1875 |
Classmark: | Bonhams (dealers) (13 March 2002) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10096 |
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 |
To T. H. Huxley 23 January [1863 or 1864]
Summary
THH’s efforts to obtain Copley Medal for CD fail. Thanks THH for kind words of sympathy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 23 Jan [1863-4] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 254) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2662 |
From James Paget 7 February 1863
Summary
Forwards a book [Horace Dobell, Lectures on the germs and vestiges of disease (1861)] and a genealogical table at the author’s request.
Author: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Feb 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3971 |
To T. H. Huxley [17 July 1865]
Summary
Has read Buffon; whole pages are like his own. But CD is not converted to non-belief. There is a fundamental distinction between Pangenesis and Buffon. Fears he may not resist publishing it, but will be cautious.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [17 July 1865] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 221) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4872 |
From Thomas Henry Huxley 1 January 1865
Summary
Sends photograph.
THH wishes he could write the popular zoology but writing is a boring and slow process when he is not interested, and he is overburdened with lectures.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Jan 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 304 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4732 |
To Charles Lyell 6 March [1863]
Summary
Comments at length on CL’s book [Antiquity of man (1863)]. CD is "greatly disappointed that you have not given judgment and spoken fairly out what you think about the derivation of species".
Lists large number of queries concerning minor points.
Praises especially the chapters on language and glaciers.
Comments on the temperature of Africa during the glacial period, especially with regard to the views of Hooker.
Mentions Owen’s paper on the aye-aye [Rep. BAAS 32 (1862) pt 2: 114–16].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 6 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.289) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4028 |
To W. G. Kemp 11 November [1874]
Summary
Responds to the correspondent's comments on natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Walter Gustav Kemp |
Date: | 11 Nov [1874] |
Classmark: | West Berkshire Museum, Newbury (NEBYM:1986.63.1.1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9716F |
To Charles Lyell 12–13 March [1863]
Summary
[On Antiquity of man] CD is "convinced that at times … you have … given up immutability". "A clear expression from you, if you could have given it, would have been potent with the public."
Objects to CL’s description of CD’s view "as a modification of Lamarck’s doctrine". Quotes Henrietta [Darwin]’s observations on this description.
Comments on CL’s controversy with Owen concerning the human brain.
The controversy between Falconer and CL.
The "wretched" review of CL [Antiquity of man, Athenæum 14 Feb 1863, pp. 219–21] and Huxley [Man’s place in nature].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 12–13 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.290) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4038 |
To Horace Benge Dobell 16 February [1863]
Summary
Thanks HBD for his lectures On the germs and vestiges of disease [1861].
Thinks his reasoning that the V. M. F. ("force exhibited in the operations of life") is not a "given quantity" is satisfactory.
How far the conditions of life affect the forms of organic life puzzles CD more than any other part of his subject. Thinks he may have underrated its importance in Origin.
Asks for source of the quotation on regeneration in HBD’s work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Horace Benge Dobell |
Date: | 16 Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | Barton L. Smith MD (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3990 |
To F. W. Farrar 2 November [1865]
Summary
Has enjoyed FWF’s volume [Chapters on language]. Had found Max Müller’s theory obscure and weak.
Believes FWF would come to agree with him on species if he studied general questions in natural history. To argue for immutability of species on the basis of geology resembles a wise savage in a nation with no books saying his language has never changed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frederic William Farrar |
Date: | 2 Nov [1865] |
Classmark: | University of Virginia Library, Special Collections (3314 1: 80) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4929 |
From E. A. Darwin 1 February [1864]
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 Feb [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 105: B23–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4400 |
From Asa Gray 22–30 March 1863
Summary
Discusses the Duke of Argyll’s article on the supernatural [Edinburgh Rev. 116 (1862): 378–97].
Has heard that the Incas married their sisters; this may be worth investigating as a case of inbreeding.
Author: | Asa Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22–30 Mar 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 131 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4056 |
To T. H. Huxley 22 December [1866]
Summary
First impressions of Haeckel’s Generelle morphologie.
Has received THH’s [Lessons in elementary] Physiology [1866]
and reread Man’s place.
Asks THH to read revised "Hybridism" chapter in new edition of Origin. Hopes it will change THH’s view.
Convinced of P. S. Pallas’ view of loss of sterility under domestication.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 22 Dec [1866] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 196) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5315 |
From John Struthers 31 December 1864
Summary
Sends CD part two of his anatomical papers [Anatomical and physiological observations (1863) [part 1 (1854)]]; thinks CD may be interested in the paper dealing with variation in numbers of digits in man. Draws CD’s attention to another variation: the occurrence of a supra-condyloid process in the human arm.
Author: | John Struthers |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Dec 1864 |
Classmark: | DAR 177: 267 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4725 |
To Ernst Haeckel [after 10] August – 8 October [1864]
Summary
Can understand EH’s feelings on death of his wife.
CD was impressed by manner in which species in South America are replaced by closely allied ones, by affinity of species inhabiting islands near S. America, and by relation of living Edentata and Rodentia to extinct species. When he read Malthus On population, the idea of natural selection flashed on him.
Agrees with EH’s remarks on Kölliker ["Darwin’sche Schöpfungstheorie", Z. Wiss. Zool. 14 (1864): 174–86].
Asks EH to thank Carl Gegenbaur [for Vergleichende Anatomie der Wirbelthiere (1864)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
Date: | [after 10] Aug – 8 Oct [1864] |
Classmark: | Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A–Abt. 1: 1–52/5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4631 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … vol. 11, letter to T. H. Huxley, 27 June [1863] ). In Variation , CD cited Gegenbaur’s …
- … vol. 11, letters to T. H. Huxley, 16 February [1863] and [after 16 February 1863] ). CD …
- … 1863] ( Correspondence vol. 11). CD gave a later description of the origin of his theories in his Autobiography , pp. 118–121. See letter from Ernst Haeckel, 10 August 1864 and n. 12. Haeckel had criticised Rudolf Albert von Kölliker’s notion that CD’s theory was teleological ( Kölliker 1864a , b, and c). CD also refers to Thomas Henry Huxley’s review of Kölliker 1864b and Flourens 1864 ([T. H. …
To T. H. Huxley 5 November [1864]
Summary
Appreciates THH’s note more than Medal.
Encourages THH to write a popular treatise on zoology.
Sends Mrs Huxley a quotation from Tennyson, with sarcastic comment.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 5 Nov [1864] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 207) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4661 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 [March 1863]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 13 [Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 186 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4039 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … nature ( T. H. Huxley 1863b ) that appeared in the Athenæum , 28 February 1863, pp. 287– …
- … H. Huxley 1863b in the Darwin Library–CUL. Hooker had asked CD what he wanted done with a number of tubers of the South American wild potato that he had obtained (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [6 March 1863] …
To J. D. Dana 20 February [1863]
Summary
Received JDD’s book [Manual of geology (1862)]
and pamphlet on man ["On the higher subdivisions in the classification of mammals", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 35 (1863): 65–71].
Fully admits JDD’s objections are valid. But is convinced of the general truth of his own views (with much incidental error), because they embrace so many phenomena and explain them.
Discusses some mistakes Owen has made;
Falconer’s disagreement with Owen ["On the mammalian genus Plagiaulax", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 18 (1862): 348–69].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
Date: | 20 Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 44) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4000 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … See also letter to T. H. Huxley, 18 [February 1863] . Falconer had described two …
- … 1863] ). Falconer may also have told CD of his doubts regarding Owen’s identification of Clacton, Tuscan, and Rhenish specimens of fossil rhinoceros as R. leptorhinus (see Owen 1846b and Falconer 1868 , 2: 317–20). The reference is to Thomas Henry Huxley’s Evidence as to man’s place in nature ( T. H. …
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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) |