To T. H. Huxley 8 March [1859]
Summary
Sends THH questions about "serial homologies" and "vegetative repetition" in Mollusca and Radiata.
Abstract volume [Origin] nearly completed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 8 Mar [1859] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 61) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2425 |
To T. H. Huxley 13 [March 1859]
Summary
Thanks for THH’s examples of serially modified and homologous parts in Radiata. Cannot understand how he forgot such cases.
Agassiz’s Essay on classification [1859] utterly impracticable rubbish.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 13 [Mar 1859] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 258) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2430 |
To T. H. Huxley 2 June [1859]
Summary
THH should understand that CD’s hypothesis [natural selection] has as many flaws and holes as sound parts. The question is whether CD’s rag of a hypothesis is worth anything. A poor rag is better than nothing to carry one’s fruit to market.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 2 June [1859] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 65) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2466 |
To T. H. Huxley 15 October [1859]
Summary
Origin is finished.
Asks for names of foreign speculative naturalists.
Hopes THH will think he is on right road despite errors.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 15 Oct [1859] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 70) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2505 |
To T. H. Huxley 24 [November 1859]
Summary
Murray has sold out Origin; wants a new edition immediately.
Asks THH to check whether Geoffroy de St Hilaire is correct [form of name].
Would be grateful for THH’s impressions on the truth of natural selection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 24 [Nov 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 4 (EH 88205939) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2550 |
To T. H. Huxley 25 November [1859]
Summary
THH’s letter about the Origin makes CD feel like a Catholic who has received extreme unction. Can now sing nunc dimittis. Had determined to abide by judgment of Lyell, Hooker, and THH.
Problem of how variations arise at all troubles him also.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 25 Nov [1859] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 72) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2553 |
To T. H. Huxley 25 November [1859]
Summary
Rejoices over THH’s lecture ["On species and races, and their origin", 10 Feb 1860, Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 3 (1858–62): 195–200] to be given at Royal Institution. Offers pigeon illustrations.
Adam Sedgwick has sent a "slashing" letter [2548] about Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 25 Nov [1859] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 74) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2554 |
To T. H. Huxley 27 November [1859]
Summary
Sends references for materials useful for THH’s lecture.
Breeding and crossing. Pigeon fanciers.
Responses to Origin: A. C. Ramsay, Charles Kingsley, Quatrefages de Bréau.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 27 Nov [1859] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 76) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2558 |
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 |
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