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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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  • … Haven and London: Yale University Press. [Lubbock, John. ] 1864b. Huxley’s lectures on the …
  • … T.  H.  Huxley 1863 ; see also letter to John Lubbock, [1 January 1864] and n.  3). …
  • … reprinted the last sentences of Huxley 1863a was John Lubbock’s review of the work ( [ …
  • … Lubbock] 1864 ; see letter from John Lubbock, 10 January 1864 , n.  3. …

To Thomas Henry Huxley   10 [January 1863]

Summary

CD overwhelmed by THH’s praise.

Agrees with his reservations about species theory but not wholly about sterility and gives his reasons for differing.

On Natural History Review, Hugh Falconer, and R. Owen.

Has written a review [Collected papers 2: 87–92] of H. W. Bates’s paper ["Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 495–566].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  10 [Jan 1863]
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 183)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3852

Matches: 4 hits

  • … for April 1863. See Correspondence vol.  10, letter from John Lubbock, 15 December 1862 , …
  • … and letter to John Lubbock, 16 [December 1862] , and …
  • … this volume, letter to John Lubbock, 4 January [1863] . Like many periodicals, the Natural …
  • … 3 January [1863] and n.  1, letter to John Lubbock, 4 January [1863] , and letter to Hugh …

To T. H. Huxley   15 September [1857]

Summary

Thanks for three last lectures and the account of cirripedes.

Difficulty of classifying the higher groups.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  15 Sept [1857]
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 137)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2141

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  • … forwarded his copies of successive parts of T.  H. Huxley 1856–7  to John Lubbock (see …
  • … letter to John Lubbock, 23 September [1856] ). Huxley believed that the Cirripedia were …

To T. H. Huxley   22 December [1874]

Summary

Thanks THH and Hooker for defending George Darwin against Mivart’s libel.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  22 Dec [1874]
Classmark:  DAR 145: 273
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9769

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  • … Lubbock. [Essay review of the works of John Lubbock and Edward Burnett Tylor. ] Quarterly …
  • … the Quarterly Review criticising works by John Lubbock and Edward Burnett Tylor ( [Mivart] …

To T. H. Huxley   22 May [1861]

Summary

Chauncey Wright’s review of Origin.

Family plans for Torquay in summer.

J. S. Henslow’s death.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  22 May [1861]
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 164)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3153

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  • … recognised authority on fossil fishes. John Lubbock’s brother Montagu eventually recovered …

To T. H. Huxley   18 September [1860]

Summary

Expresses his grief upon hearing of the death of THH’s young son. Recalls his own bitter loss of a child.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  18 Sept [1860]
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley papers)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2920B

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  • … have had much suffering. God Bless you. | Charles Darwin I have written to John Lubbock

To Thomas Henry Huxley   1 January [1860]

Summary

Will keep THH’s secret [of authorship of Times review of Origin]. It has made deep impression.

J. D. Dana’s illness.

Daily News accuses him of plagiarising Vestiges.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  1 Jan [1860]
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 94)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2633

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  • … his son John Lubbock were CD’s neighbours. Richard Owen had expressed his willingness to …
  • … of the review were actually written by Lucas (see LL 2: 255). John William Lubbock and …

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

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  • … on his poor health in his last two letters to John Lubbock (see Correspondence vol.   …
  • … 12, letters to John Lubbock , 19 November [1864] and 21 December [1864] ). Although CD’s …

To T. H. Huxley   9 April [1856]

Summary

Arrangements for visit of Huxleys to Down on 26 Apr.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  9 Apr [1856]
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 33)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1852

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  • … House. According to Emma Darwin’s diary, John Lubbock joined them for dinner on 26 April. …

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

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  • … reading around this time (see letter to John Lubbock, 11 June [1865] ). See letter from …

To T. H. Huxley   9 December [1856]

Summary

Grateful for Siebold’s wonderful facts [C. T. E. von Siebold, On a true parthenogenesis in moths and bees (1856), trans. by W. S. Dallas (1857)].

Vitality of spermatozoa.

Hybridisation of bees. Bees are in one respect his greatest theoretical difficulty.

CD still convinced about the relation of cement receptacles and ovarian tubes [in Crustacea].

Birth of C. W. Darwin.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  9 Dec [1856]
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 42, 374)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2017

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  • … males’ in Natural selection , p.  365 n.  3. John Lubbock was preparing a paper on the …
  • … parthenogenesis of Daphnia (see letter to John Lubbock, 27 October [1856] ). See letter …

To T. H. Huxley   6 January 1875

Summary

Thanks THH for his article in the Academy and his defence of CD and G. H. Darwin against Mivart. Still thinks he should write plainly to Mivart.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  6 Jan 1875
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 313)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9804

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  • … Lubbock. [Essay review of the works of John Lubbock and Edward Burnett Tylor. ] Quarterly …

To T. H. Huxley   10 November [1860]

Summary

On the prospectus of Natural History Review. Suggests it might offer information on whether subjects that correspondents may wish to investigate have been done already.

Henrietta still very seriously ill.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  10 Nov [1860]
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 143)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2979

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  • … Frederick Currey , Joseph Reay Greene , John Lubbock , Robert M’Donnell, Daniel Oliver , …

From T. H. Huxley   4 November 1864

Summary

His pleasure at Royal Society Copley Medal for CD. Recounts meeting of Royal Society Council.

Author:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  4 Nov 1864
Classmark:  DAR 166: 303
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4655

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  • … London , p.  347). See letter from John Lubbock, 3 November 1864  and n.  2, and Appendix …

To T. H. Huxley   28 April 1873

Summary

Lady Lyell’s death.

Sends names of donors of gift to THH.

The Edinburgh Review has a critical article against CD, THH, Tyndall, and H. Spencer [see 8935]. Thinks Forbes reference not worth answering.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  28 Apr 1873
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 299)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8887

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  • … was Huxley’s physician. CD refers to John Lubbock and Michael Foster . See letter from …

To T. H. Huxley   27 December 1880

Summary

Has obtained signatures for the memorial. Wonders whether Gladstone would see a deputation and offers to write to Gladstone instead. Asks THH’s advice.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  27 Dec 1880
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 354)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12941

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  • … William Ewart ). ‘Wall’: Wallace. John Lubbock was the Liberal MP for London University. …

From T. H. Huxley   21 April 1875

Summary

Lord Cardwell thinks it unlikely that Parliament will take any action on a vivisection bill this session. Playfair should be consulted.

E. F. W. Pflüger’s important memoir on how carbonic acid is produced by living matter and his speculation about origin of living matter [see 9931].

Author:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 Apr 1875
Classmark:  DAR 166: 339
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9942

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  • … the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals . John Lubbock . Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger had …

To T. H. Huxley   22 June 1881

Summary

Has had letter from Rothenburg asking him to help obtain a grant for Haeckel’s expedition to Ceylon.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  22 June 1881
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 364)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13215

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  • … thanked Rottenburg for his support. John Lubbock was a fellow of the Royal Society of …

From T. H. Huxley   20 January 1862

Summary

The Witness attacks THH’s lecture.

Assures CD he spoke more favourably of his doctrines than the reports show.

Agrees with CD’s arguments on sterility of hybrids and predicts physiological experiments will produce physiological species sterile inter se. Has come even closer to CD’s view especially since Primula paper. Will soon be more Darwinian than CD.

Author:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Jan 1862
Classmark:  DAR 166.2: 291
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-3396

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  • … answered by Huxley, Joseph Dalton Hooker , and John Lubbock (see Correspondence vol.  8). …

From Thomas Henry Huxley   16 January 1864

Summary

Asks CD to sign certificate nominating Flower for Royal Society.

Author:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 Jan 1864
Classmark:  DAR 166: 300
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4388

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  • … by Huxley, Joseph Dalton Hooker , and John Lubbock (see Correspondence vol.  8, Appendix …
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