From T. H. Huxley 20 February 1871
Summary
Thanks for new book [Descent].
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Feb 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 324 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7494 |
From T. H. Huxley 30 July 1871
Summary
Shocked at Lyell’s appearance and speech.
Family news.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 July 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 325 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7888 |
From T. H. Huxley 28 September 1871
Summary
Sends proof of article for Contemporary Review [18 (1871): 443–76].
Is grieved to hear that Mivart is author of Quarterly Review article. THH thought better of him than that.
Compares the Origin to Plato’s Republic: "it will remain fresh for two thousand years".
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 43–46 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7973 |
From T. H. Huxley 10 October 1871
Summary
Answers CD on transitional forms. Has no doubt Zeuglodon is transitional form between Carnivora and Cetacea.
Met Mivart in Manchester. Some doubt that he was the author of Quarterly Review article.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Oct 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 326 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8000 |
From T. H. Huxley and H. A. Huxley 20 September 1871
Summary
Has received Chauncey Wright’s pamphlet [see 7940].
Has reviewed Quarterly Review article and 2d ed. of Genesis of species for the Contemporary Review [18 (1871): 443–76].
Mivart has hopelessly misunderstood Suarez [Disputiones (1630)] on evolution.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley; Henrietta Anne Heathorn; Henrietta Anne Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 99: 39–42 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7953 |
| letter | (5) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (5) |
| Heathorn, H. A. | (1) |
| Huxley, H. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Huxley, T. H. | |
| Heathorn, H. A. | (1) |
| Huxley, H. A. | (1) |
