To T. H. Huxley 9 April [1860]
Summary
Owen on the branchiae of Balanidae.
The Edinburgh Review article on the Origin [by Owen, 111 (1860): 487–532] full of misrepresentations, with a brutal attack on THH.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 9 Apr [1860] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 111) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2751 |
To T. H. Huxley 11 April [1860]
Summary
On THH’s lecture at Royal Institution ["On species and races, and their origin", Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 3 (1858–62): 195–200]. Praises eloquence of his conclusion.
Has sent first part of German translation of Origin to THH.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 11 Apr [1860] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 113) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2756 |
To T. H. Huxley 14 April [1860]
Summary
On THH’s "Deep-sea soundings in the North Atlantic" ["Report on the examination of specimens of bottom" in Deep-sea soundings made in H.M.S. "Cyclops", Lieut. Commander J. Dayman (1858)]. Suggests further investigations be made of deposits of calcareous organisms.
THH’s "extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science" ["The origin of species", Westminster Rev. 17 (1860): 541–70].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 14 Apr [1860] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 115) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2760 |
To T. H. Huxley [after 20 April 1860]
Summary
Asks whether THH had by mistake taken the National Review containing W. B. Carpenter’s review.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | [after 20 Apr 1860] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 255) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2765A |
