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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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