To T. H. Huxley [5 December 1859]
Summary
Thanks for THH’s review of Origin in Macmillan’s Magazine ["Time and life: Mr Darwin’s Origin of Species", 1 (1859–60): 142–8]. Reception of natural selection will depend on whether it explains the recognised laws in the several fields of natural history.
Domestic variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [5 Dec 1859] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 78) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2572 |
To T. H. Huxley [9 December 1859]
Summary
Sends enclosure [unspecified].
Reminds THH to mention [German] translation [of Origin] when he writes to R. A. von Kölliker.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [9 Dec 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 145: 189 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2574 |
To T. H. Huxley 13 December [1859]
Summary
Sends anecdotes and drawings of pigeons for Royal Institution lecture. Offers parts on hybridisation and pigeons from his MS (if THH has patience to read them).
Has heard George Busk is converted.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 13 Dec [1859] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 82–6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2582 |
To T. H. Huxley 16 December [1859]
Summary
Will bring materials for Royal Institution lecture [when he comes to London].
Plans to bring out separate detailed volumes [on his theory], starting with domestic variation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 16 Dec [1859] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 87) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2585 |
To T. H. Huxley 24 December [1859]
Summary
Sends MS on pigeons for THH’s lecture at Royal Institution.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 24 Dec [1859] |
Classmark: | Private collection |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2600 |
To T. H. Huxley 25 December [1859]
Summary
Henry Holland and others have attacked his reasoning from analogy to one primordial created form – by which CD means only that we know nothing of how life originated. The reasoning seems probable to him, so he has kept it in.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 25 Dec [1859] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 90) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2603 |
To T. H. Huxley 28 December [1859]
Summary
Delighted with Times review [26 Dec 1859]. Puzzled by author, suspects THH, but publication in Times makes it unlikely. Sorry for Owen.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 28 Dec [1859] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 92) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2611 |
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 |
To T. H. Huxley 9 January [1860]
Summary
Sends ticket to pigeon show.
A quotation from Erasmus Darwin’s Zoonomia [1794, 1796] shows that he anticipated Lamarck.
G. Grote impressed by Times review [26 Dec 1859, p. 8].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 9 Jan [1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 96) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2646 |
To T. H. Huxley 11 January [1860]
Summary
On the problem of want of sterility in crosses of domestic varieties. Refers to discussion in Origin, pp. 267–72 ["Fertility of varieties when crossed"]. We do not know precise cause of sterility in species.
Andrew Murray has attacked Origin [see 2647].
H. C. Watson objects to natural selection on grounds of limitless diversification of species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 11 Jan [1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 98) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2649 |
To T. H. Huxley 21 [January 1860]
Summary
Sends copy of 2d ed. of Origin, with list of corrections.
Is at work on "fuller work" [Variation].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 21 [Jan 1860] |
Classmark: | Janet Huxley (private collection); Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 102) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2660 |
To T. H. Huxley 23 January [1863 or 1864]
Summary
THH’s efforts to obtain Copley Medal for CD fail. Thanks THH for kind words of sympathy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 23 Jan [1863-4] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 254) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2662 |
To T. H. Huxley [26 January 1860]
Summary
Has arranged with Baily the poulterer for pigeons for THH to exhibit at Royal Institution lecture.
E. A. Darwin will subscribe to H. Spencer’s book [First principles: a system of philosophy (1862)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [26 Jan 1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 119) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2673 |
To T. H. Huxley 2 [February 1860]
Summary
H. G. Bronn offers to superintend a German translation of Origin.
Bronn has reviewed Origin [Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie (1860), p. 112].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 2 [Feb 1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 80) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2679 |
To T. H. Huxley 4 February [1860]
Summary
Will write to H. G. Bronn accepting his offer. Asks THH to write to R. A. von Kölliker.
French arrangements fall between two stools.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 4 Feb [1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 105) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2685 |
To T. H. Huxley 4 March [1860]
Summary
Gardeners’ Chronicle has reprinted THH’s Times review.
W. H. Harvey made weak attack on Origin [Gard. Chron. (1860): 145–6], to which Hooker made admirable rejoinder [Gard. Chron. (1860): 170–1].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 4 Mar [1860] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 109) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2720 |
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 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (190) |
Huxley, T. H. | (190) |