To T. H. Huxley 14 [January 1862]
Summary
On success of THH’s Edinburgh lectures.
Agrees that THH is right that the hybrid question is a "hiatus" [in the argument for natural selection] but he overrates it. Crossed varieties frequently produce sterile offspring. On this question asks THH to read his Primula paper [Collected papers 2: 45–63]. CD suspects sterility will come to be viewed as a selected character.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 14 [Jan 1862] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 167) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3386 |
To T. H. Huxley 22 January [1862]
Summary
Much amused at the Witness.
Pleased at what THH says on hybridity.
Odd that objectors never allude to the arguments that alone have weight in their favour – affinities, rudimentary organs, etc.
Has 16 ill in the house!
Natural History Review a capital number.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 22 Jan [1862] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 252) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3403 |
To T. H. Huxley 2 February [1862]
Summary
Returns a letter, which, when it is published, he believes will make readers take up THH’s lectures in a more impartial spirit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 2 Feb [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 145: 223 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3436 |
To T. H. Huxley 6 February [1862]
Summary
Returns "The Week" [unidentified].
Agrees with THH’s published letter that writer is a man of excellent spirit, but doubts he is a good logician.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 6 Feb [1862] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3438 |
To T. H. Huxley 30 April [1862]
Summary
Thinks THH’s [Anniversary] Address [to Geological Society, Feb 1862, Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 18 (1862): xl–liv] a wonderful condensed and original summary of palaeontology.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 30 Apr [1862] |
Classmark: | Paul C. Richards Autographs (dealer) (Catalogue 183) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3522 |
To T. H. Huxley 10 May [1862]
Summary
Nearly agrees on contemporaneity, but THH pushes his ideas too far. Would require strong evidence before believing that the so-called Silurian, Devonian, and Carboniferous strata could be contemporaneous. Thinks THH’s case on advancement of organisation is strong. But he should read Bronn, before publishing again, and say more on other side. Cannot help hoping he is not as right as he seems to be.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 10 May [1862] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 171) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3542 |
To T. H. Huxley 7 December [1862]
Summary
On THH’s Lectures to working men.
Work by Ferdinand J. Cohn on the contractile tissue of plants ["Über contractile Gewebe im Pflanzenreich" Abh. Schlesischen Ges. Vaterl. Cult. 1 (1861)] seems important. CD has come to the conclusion that there must be some substance in plants analogous to the supposed diffused nervous matter in lower animals.
[Part of P.S. missing from original.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 7 Dec [1862] |
Classmark: | DAR 145: 227, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 179) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3848 |
To T. H. Huxley 18 December [1862]
Summary
Enthusiastic about Lectures IV and V [Lectures to working men (1863)].
Sends specific comments on fantail pigeon,
sterility of hybrids,
the geological section diagram.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 18 Dec [1862] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 186) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3866 |
To T. H. Huxley 28 December [1862]
Summary
Returns Kingsley’s letter [see ML 1: 225 n.].
Lectures [to working men] would do good if widely circulated.
On sterility, they differ so much there is no use arguing. To get the degree of sterility THH expects in recently formed varieties seems to CD simply hopeless. Has suggested a test experiment to Tegetmeier [two fertile birds paired and unproductive].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 28 Dec [1862] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 189, 19: 209–12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3878 |