To John Tyndall 4 February [1857]
Summary
CD is "as ignorant of mechanics as a pig", but glaciers have interested him greatly. Hopes to hear that JT’s experiments with ice will explain the freezing together of ice below the freezing point.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Tyndall |
Date: | 4 Feb [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 2 (EH 88205940) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2046 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … H. Huxley, 17 January [1857] , and letter to T. H. Huxley, 3 February [1857] . In …
- … by the relationship to the letter to T. H. Huxley, 3 February [1857] . See letter to T. …
- … H. Huxley 1859 ), by which time the ‘jolly row’ mentioned in CD’s letter to T. H. Huxley, 3 February [1857] , …
- … question, posed in CD’s letter to T. H. Huxley, 17 January [1857] , of how Tyndall knew ‘ …
To T. H. Huxley 3 October [1857]
Summary
Thinks naturalists look for something further than Cuvier’s view of classification. Poses a theoretical problem on the classification of the races of man to prove that a genealogical system is best.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 3 Oct [1857] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 139) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2150 |
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 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Huxley, [before 3 October 1857] , and letter to T. H. Huxley, 3 October [1857] . CD …
- … Alps in August 1857. In a published letter to John Tyndall (T. H. Huxley 1857 b), Huxley …
- … September [1857] . For Huxley’s response and CD’s further remarks, see letter from T. H. …
- … Alps by 3 September 1857 (L. Huxley ed. 1900, 1: 146). See letter to T. H. Huxley, 15 …
To T. H. Huxley 9 July [1857]
Summary
Thanks THH for his cautionary response on Brullé, but departs from THH in thinking that Barnéoud, if true, would shed light on Milne-Edwards’ proposition that the wider apart classes of animals are the earlier they depart from common embryonic plan.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 9 July [1857] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 50) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2122 |
To T. H. Huxley 3 February [1857]
Summary
Thanks THH for his response on glacial movement. Hopes Tyndall will experiment on broken ice and explain how two pieces of ice can freeze together.
Sorry to hear of THH’s row with Richard Owen.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 3 Feb [1857] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 104) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2045 |
From Hugh Falconer 3 November 186[4]
Author: | Hugh Falconer |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Nov 186[4] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 19 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4652 |
To George Rolleston 5 September [1861]
Summary
GR’s letter is a gold-mine.
Pleased to have Pierre Gratiolet’s comment on the embryology of greatly modified organs
and GR’s valuable cases of analogous variation.
Doubts craniologists, but recounts his father’s opinion that the shape of CD’s head was altered when he returned from the Beagle.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Rolleston |
Date: | 5 Sept [1861] |
Classmark: | Royal College of Physicians of London (ALS/D12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3245 |
To T. H. Huxley 27 May [1865]
Summary
Thanks for Catalogue.
Has had a bad month. Somewhat improved as a result of John Chapman’s ice-bag cures.
Asks THH to read MS on his hypothesis Pangenesis. THH only man whose judgment on it would be final with him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 27 May [1865] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 214) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4837 |
To J. D. Hooker [23 October 1859]
Summary
Congratulates JDH on finishing his introductory essay [to Flora Tasmaniae].
Lyell’s position on mutability appears more positive in his letters to JDH than in those to CD. Considers JDH a convert.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [23 Oct 1859] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2509 |
From T. H. Huxley [before 3 October 1857]
Summary
On classification and possibilities of a scientific morphology and zoology. CD’s "pedigree business" is important for physiology but has nothing to do with pure zoology any more than human pedigree has to do with the census. Zoological classification is a census of the animal world.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 3 Oct 1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.5: 218 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2144 |
To George Busk, Linnean Society 30 March [1858]
Summary
Expresses his strong opinion that Huxley’s paper ["Agamic reproduction and morphology of Aphis", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 22 (1858): 193–220, 221–36] should be published.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Busk; Linnean Society |
Date: | 30 Mar [1858] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (SP.585c) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2247 |
From T. H. Huxley 7 July 1857
Summary
THH comments on G. A. Brullé’s paper ["Researches upon the transformations of the appendages of the Articulata", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 13 (1844): 484–6].
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 July 1857 |
Classmark: | DAR 11.1: 41a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2119 |
To J. D. Hooker 31 March [1858]
Summary
Writing section on large and small genera [for Natural selection, ch. 4].
Huxley supersedes Owen on parthenogenesis.
Buckle’s History of civilisation in England extremely interesting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 31 Mar [1858] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 230 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2248 |
To B. D. Walsh 23 March [1867]
Summary
Thanks for Agassiz’s Lectures. Lyell does not believe a word about glacial action of any kind in lowlands of Brazil. Agassiz’s view of glacial movement has been given up by physicists.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Dann Walsh |
Date: | 23 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (Walsh 9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5455 |
To T. H. Huxley 11 April [1864]
Summary
Thanks for Lectures on the elements of comparative anatomy [1864].
If Owen wrote article on "Oken" [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 8th ed.] and French work on archetype he never did a baser act [see ML 1: 246 n.].
Bad health lately.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 11 Apr [1864] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 203) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4459 |
To T. H. Huxley 13 September [1854]
Summary
Thanks for help on presentation copies of Living Cirripedia, vol. 2.
Suggests he examine cementing apparatus of Balanus.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 13 Sept [1854] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 16) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1592 |
From T. H. Huxley 1 May 1865
Summary
Sends Catalogue [of the collection of fossils in the Museum of Practical Geology (1865)], most of which was written in pre-Darwinian epoch [i.e., 1857].
Hears magnum opus [Variation] completely developed, though not yet born.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 May 1865 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 306 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4824 |
To T. H. Huxley 13 [December 1856]
Summary
Pleased by what THH says on cement glands and organs in higher Crustacea. Content to be moderately right.
Hopes THH will dissect the Conchoderma.
Asks for cases of organs in which there is no apparent transition from other organs or in which transition can be shown in an unexpected way and for instances of odd and inexplicable connections between parts, such that if one part varies the other varies also.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 13 [Dec 1856] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 44, 375) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2020 |
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 J. D. Hooker 20 January [1857]
Summary
CD will advise Daniell not to apply for Royal Society grant.
CD’s experiment: fish fed seeds, which germinated when voided.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 20 Jan [1857] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 189 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2042 |
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Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Huxley, T. H. | (21) |
Hooker, J. D. | (8) |
Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
Dana, J. D. | (4) |
Lyell, Charles | (4) |
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Hooker, J. D. | (9) |
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Lyell, Charles | (4) |