To T. H. Huxley 23 October [1875]
Summary
Thanks for THH’s essay on species [article for an American encyclopedia].
Will probably never again write on large and general subjects; will keep to easier specific ones such as insectivorous and climbing plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 23 Oct [1875] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 320) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10214 |
To T. H. Huxley 1 November [1875]
Summary
Astonished and disgusted at Klein’s evidence. No doubt there will be severe and vicious legislation against physiology. Will give evidence before Commission.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 1 Nov [1875] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 322) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10235 |
To T. H. Huxley 12 November [1875]
Summary
Thanks for Elementary biology [1875]. Wishes he had had a course like it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 12 Nov [1875] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 324) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10256 |
To T. H. Huxley 10 December [1875]
Summary
Is coming to London. Will call on THH.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 10 Dec [1875] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 325) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10292 |
To T. H. Huxley 6 January 1875
Summary
Thanks THH for his article in the Academy and his defence of CD and G. H. Darwin against Mivart. Still thinks he should write plainly to Mivart.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 6 Jan 1875 |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 313) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9804 |
To T. H. Huxley [after 12 January 1875]
Summary
CD has written to Mivart to say that he will never hold any communication with him in future.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | [after 12 Jan 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 145: 276 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9813 |
To T. H. Huxley 14 January 1875
Summary
Is alarmed by the petitions against vivisection that are being circulated. Believes there is scope for reasonable legislation and would like to see eminent physiologists prepare a petition so that the science could be protected and animals saved from needless suffering.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 14 Jan 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: C37–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9817 |
To T. H. Huxley 27 January [1875]
Summary
Sends suggestions for observations on glacial phenomena that might be made on the [Polar] expedition [of H. M. S. Alert and Discovery, 1875–6].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 27 Jan [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: A48–53 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9831 |
To T. H. Huxley 21 May 1875
Summary
CD believes Playfair’s bill would not restrict demonstrations under anaesthetic.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 21 May 1875 |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 316) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9986 |
