To T. H. Huxley [7 December 1880]
Summary
Asks to see THH on Thursday or Friday to hear about the Wallace affair.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [7 Dec 1880] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 355) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12893 |
To T. H. Huxley 9 December 1880
Summary
Thinks Wallace memorial should not be presented to Lord Aberdare, nor to Owen, for signature, but will follow THH’s wishes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 9 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 351) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12899 |
To T. H. Huxley [29 December 1880]
Summary
Has asked Hooker to sign the Wallace memorial and send it on to THH.
Read splendid lecture by THH on evolution in the Times ["On the application of the laws of evolution to the arrangement of the Vertebrata and more particularly of the Mammalia", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1880): 649–62].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [29 Dec 1880] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 363) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12935 |
To T. H. Huxley 27 December 1880
Summary
Has obtained signatures for the memorial. Wonders whether Gladstone would see a deputation and offers to write to Gladstone instead. Asks THH’s advice.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 27 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 354) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12941 |
To T. H. Huxley 7 January 1881
Summary
Success of the memorial for Wallace. Sends letter from Gladstone.
Congratulates THH on appointment as Inspector of Fisheries.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 7 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 356) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12986 |
From T. H. Huxley 8 January 1881
Summary
Congratulates CD on success of Wallace memorial.
Butler has attacked again.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 8 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 9: 203) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12992 |
To T. H. Huxley 22 January 1881
Summary
Asks THH to sign a certificate of nomination to Geological Society for his son William, if an interest in geology is still enough to qualify for election.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 22 Jan 1881 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 358) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13023 |
To T. H. Huxley 5 March 1881
Summary
CD tells how it came about that Anthony Rich bequeathed his house and land to THH.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 5 Mar 1881 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 359) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13073 |
To T. H. Huxley 22 June 1881
Summary
Has had letter from Rothenburg asking him to help obtain a grant for Haeckel’s expedition to Ceylon.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 22 June 1881 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 364) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13215 |
To T. H. Huxley 28 June 1881
Summary
CD has offered Ernst Haeckel £100 but does not know where to get further aid. Sorry to hear about Du Bois-Reymond, but is not in the least surprised about R. Virchow.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 28 June 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 145: 302 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13226 |
To T. H. Huxley 9 September 1881
Summary
Erasmus has left half his fortune to CD. Anthony Rich nevertheless insists on keeping to his testamentary arrangements. He also referred to leaving some additional property to THH.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 9 Sept 1881 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 368) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13324 |
To T. H. Huxley 12 January 1882
Summary
Thanks for Science and culture [1881].
Refers to "Automatism" ["On the hypothesis that animals are automata"], wishing THH could review himself and answer himself and thus go on ad infinitum to the joy and instruction of the world.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 12 Jan 1882 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 370) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13612 |
To T. H. Huxley 27 March 1882
Summary
Feels better. Grateful for THH’s kind letter. Wishes there were more automata like him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 27 Mar 1882 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 371) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13744 |
To T. H. Huxley [1860–70?]
Summary
Thanks THH for the delightful evening he gave Frank [Darwin].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | [1860–70?] |
Classmark: | Janet Huxley (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13817 |
To Thomas Henry Huxley 17 July [1851]
Summary
Thanks for report [on echinoderms, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. 8 (1851): 1–19]. Wanted to learn about metamorphosis of the class. Agrees with THH’s distinction between individuals and zooids, but thinks zooids will never cease to be called individuals.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 17 July [1851] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1442 |
To T. H. Huxley 9 October 1851
Summary
Testimonial for THH’s application for Chair in Natural History at Toronto.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 9 Oct 1851 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1457 |
To T. H. Huxley 22 November [1851]
Summary
Proposes to send THH vol. 1 of Living Cirripedia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 22 Nov [1851] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 14) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1462 |
To T. H. Huxley 23 April [1853]
Summary
On THH’s paper on cephalous Mollusca [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 143 (1853) pt 1: 29–66]. Discovery of the type or "idea" (in THH’s sense, not Owen’s or Agassiz’s) is one of the highest ends of natural history.
Discusses anamorphism;
position of heart in Cleodora.
Variability within species;
cementing process in cirripedes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 23 Apr [1853] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1480 |
To T. H. Huxley 11 April [1853]
Summary
Offers to send Ascidia specimens of Beagle voyage. Describes some of them.
Hopes THH will review his book [Living Cirripedia, vol. 1] which has been published for a year with no notice taken of it except briefly by Dana.
Discusses Limulus-like larva. "I have become a man of one idea.– cirripedes morning & night."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 11 Apr [1853] |
Classmark: | DAR 145: 150Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1514 |
To T. H. Huxley 2 September [1854]
Summary
Second Living Cirripedia volume published. Asks THH’s advice on presentation copies for continental naturalists.
THH’s review of Vestiges of creation in [Br. & Foreign Med.-Chir. Rev. 13 (1854)]. CD is almost as unorthodox on species as the author of Vestiges, but hopes not quite so unphilosophical.
Hopes L. Agassiz was sounder on embryological stages than THH thinks.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 2 Sept [1854] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1587 |
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