To Thomas Henry Huxley 10 March 1869
Summary
At writer’s request, forwards long letter on Comte by Vernon Lushington.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 10 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 262) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6649 |
To T. H. Huxley 12 March [1869]
Summary
Apologises for passing on what he agrees were offensive remarks in V. Lushington’s letter. Has told VL he had no right to make them. Asks THH to make allowance for red-hot disciples defending the master.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 12 Mar [1869] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 264) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6658 |
To T. H. Huxley 19 March [1869]
Summary
Thanks for THH’s address [to Geological Society, Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 25 (1869): 28–53]. Admires it and enjoyed attack on William Thomson hugely, but would tremble if he were in THH’s boots. Distinction made by THH between evolutionists and uniformitarians is too great. CD’s sentences on age of world in Origin will do, but he might have been less timid had he read THH.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 19 Mar [1869] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 266) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6670 |
To T. H. Huxley 8 May [1869]
Summary
Thanks for [D. D. Cunningham’s] letter. Had hoped for a better haul but delighted to hear of the curious fossil.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 8 May [1869] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 268) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6735 |
To T. H. Huxley 9 July [1869]
Summary
Haeckel wants British specimens of calcareous sponges. Can THH tell him to whom he can apply?
Health not improving – cannot climb even a hill.
Has heard THH’s article on Comte ["Scientific aspects of Positivism", Lay sermons (1870)] is a splendid success.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 9 July [1869] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 271) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6823 |
To T. H. Huxley 21 September [1869]
Summary
James Orton, U. S. naturalist, has sent him a tooth from skull of a horse found in Quito, Ecuador in deposits containing Mastodon, etc. JO asked CD to send it to Owen, but, since he does not communicate with Owen, he is sending it to THH.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 21 Sept [1869] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 273) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6901 |
To T. H. Huxley 1 October [1869]
Summary
V. O. Kovalevsky, Russian translator [of Variation], wishes to hear THH lecture.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 1 Oct [1869] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 275) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6922 |
To T. H. Huxley 14 October 1869
Summary
Delighted with THH’s review [in Academy (1869)] of Haeckel’s [Natürliche] Schöpfungsgeschichte [1868],
but groans about THH’s view of rudimentary organs. Cites Origin and Variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 14 Oct 1869 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 277) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6936 |
From T. H. Huxley 11 March 1869
Summary
Nothing new in Lushington’s letter. Two paragraphs are offensive – that THH sought to stir up Scotch Presbyterian prejudices against Comte at Edinburgh and that he had not read Comte.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 317 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6654 |
From T. H. Huxley 17 March 1869
Summary
Last letter was written to be passed on for Lushington’s edification. "(Standing on the points of my toes and my tail very stiff)." Is tiring of controversy as a waste of time. Begins to understand CD’s sufferings over Origin.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 318 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6665 |
From T. H. Huxley 7 May 1869
Summary
H. M. S. Nassau, surveying Magellan Straits, has found fossils at Gallegos River. They have been sent to THH by R. O. Cunningham [naturalist of H. M. S. Nassau]. Skull of entirely new ungulate mammal.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 May 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 319 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6732 |
From T. H. Huxley 16 July 1869
Summary
Has already referred Haeckel’s request to J. S. Bowerbank.
Has lost track of collectors and naturalists "by grace of the dredge" because of other work and ""the great question of "Darwinismus" which is such a worry to us all"".
Family health.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 July 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 320 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6830 |
From T. H. Huxley 28 September 1869
Summary
Will do his best on the tooth [sent by CD] but does not put much weight on conclusions based on a single tooth of a horse.
Darwin attacked by three clergymen at BAAS meeting [Exeter, 1869].
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 28 Sept 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 321 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6914 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
Huxley, T. H. | (5) |
Huxley, T. H. | (8) |
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |