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To T. H. Huxley 15 September [1857]
Summary
Thanks for three last lectures and the account of cirripedes.
Difficulty of classifying the higher groups.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 15 Sept [1857] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 137) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2141 |
To T. H. Huxley 26 September [1857]
Summary
Agassiz’s superficiality and wretched reasoning powers. But he stirred up Europe on glaciers. Lyell has been working on their effects – testing work of others.
CD believes "Natural Systems" ought to be simply genealogical. "Time will come when we shall have true genealogical trees of each great kingdom of nature."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 26 Sept [1857] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 54) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2143 |
