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From Thomas Henry Huxley   [before 30 January 1868]

Summary

Congratulations on George’s attaining Second Wrangler.

Variation has just arrived. Wishes he had two heads or a body that needed no rest.

Author:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [before 30 Jan 1868]
Classmark:  DAR 166: 313
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5814

To J. M. Herbert   30 January [1868]

Summary

Thanks JMH for his congratulations.

Recalls gift of microscope [from JMH in 1831]. [See 99].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Maurice Herbert
Date:  30 Jan [1868]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.344)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5815

To Fritz Müller   30 January [1868]

Summary

Sends Variation and would like to hear what FM thinks of Pangenesis.

Thanks for information on expression.

Dimorphic plants;

differences in seed production in cross- and self-fertilised plants.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:  30 Jan [1868]
Classmark:  The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 20)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5816

To T. H. Huxley   30 January [1868]

Summary

Thanks for congratulations.

Doubts THH’s response to Pangenesis will give him pleasure. "Oh Lord what a blowing up I may receive."

Still thinks THH has been too "sharp sighted" on hybridism.

Sends Mrs Huxley Queries about expression.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  30 Jan [1868]
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 237)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5817

From John Lubbock   30 January 1868

Summary

Many thanks for the book [Variation].

Author:  John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  30 Jan 1868
Classmark:  DAR 170: 61
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5818

From J. B. Innes   30 January 1868

Summary

Congratulates CD on son’s [George’s] distinction [Second Wrangler] at Cambridge.

Author:  John Brodie Innes
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  30 Jan 1868
Classmark:  DAR 167: 15
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5819