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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[1860–70?]
Source of text:
Janet Huxley (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks THH for the delightful evening he gave Frank [Darwin].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
1 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 94)
Summary:

Will keep THH’s secret [of authorship of Times review of Origin]. It has made deep impression.

J. D. Dana’s illness.

Daily News accuses him of plagiarising Vestiges.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
9 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 96)
Summary:

Sends ticket to pigeon show.

A quotation from Erasmus Darwin’s Zoonomia [1794, 1796] shows that he anticipated Lamarck.

G. Grote impressed by Times review [26 Dec 1859, p. 8].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
11 Jan [1860]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 98)
Summary:

On the problem of want of sterility in crosses of domestic varieties. Refers to discussion in Origin, pp. 267–72 ["Fertility of varieties when crossed"]. We do not know precise cause of sterility in species.

Andrew Murray has attacked Origin [see 2647].

H. C. Watson objects to natural selection on grounds of limitless diversification of species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
21 [Jan 1860]
Source of text:
Janet Huxley (private collection); Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 102)
Summary:

Sends copy of 2d ed. of Origin, with list of corrections.

Is at work on "fuller work" [Variation].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
23 Jan [1863-4]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 254)
Summary:

THH’s efforts to obtain Copley Medal for CD fail. Thanks THH for kind words of sympathy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[26 Jan 1860]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 119)
Summary:

Has arranged with Baily the poulterer for pigeons for THH to exhibit at Royal Institution lecture.

E. A. Darwin will subscribe to H. Spencer’s book [First principles: a system of philosophy (1862)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
2 [Feb 1860]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 80)
Summary:

H. G. Bronn offers to superintend a German translation of Origin.

Bronn has reviewed Origin [Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie (1860), p. 112].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
4 Feb [1860]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 105)
Summary:

Will write to H. G. Bronn accepting his offer. Asks THH to write to R. A. von Kölliker.

French arrangements fall between two stools.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
4 Mar [1860]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 109)
Summary:

Gardeners’ Chronicle has reprinted THH’s Times review.

W. H. Harvey made weak attack on Origin [Gard. Chron. (1860): 145–6], to which Hooker made admirable rejoinder [Gard. Chron. (1860): 170–1].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
9 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 111)
Summary:

Owen on the branchiae of Balanidae.

The Edinburgh Review article on the Origin [by Owen, 111 (1860): 487–532] full of misrepresentations, with a brutal attack on THH.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
11 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 113)
Summary:

On THH’s lecture at Royal Institution ["On species and races, and their origin", Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 3 (1858–62): 195–200]. Praises eloquence of his conclusion.

Has sent first part of German translation of Origin to THH.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
14 Apr [1860]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 115)
Summary:

On THH’s "Deep-sea soundings in the North Atlantic" ["Report on the examination of specimens of bottom" in Deep-sea soundings made in H.M.S. "Cyclops", Lieut. Commander J. Dayman (1858)]. Suggests further investigations be made of deposits of calcareous organisms.

THH’s "extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science" ["The origin of species", Westminster Rev. 17 (1860): 541–70].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[after 20 Apr 1860]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 255)
Summary:

Asks whether THH had by mistake taken the National Review containing W. B. Carpenter’s review.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
7 May [1860]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 117)
Summary:

Observations on changes in physical proportions of pigeons.

The Saturday Review of 5 May has a defence of CD and THH by "a jolly good fellow".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
3 July [1860]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 121)
Summary:

Has had a report on Oxford BAAS meeting from Hooker. Asks THH to write about it. Has heard he fought nobly with Owen and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce. Regrets trouble he has caused his friends.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[5 July 1860]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 123)
Summary:

THH’s long account of Oxford meeting. Has he no reverence for a bishop?

W. Hopkins’ review in Fraser’s Magazine is nothing new.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
20 July [1860]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 125)
Summary:

On the Fraser’s Magazine review by Hopkins [see 2860] and the Quarterly Review article by Wilberforce ["Darwin’s Origin of species", 108 (1860): 225–64]. The course of opinion since Oxford BAAS meeting. Asa Gray.

Need for Natural History Review, but fears it will be a burden for THH and lessen his original work. His own problem with work: if he had other duties he would be able to do absolutely nothing in science.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[30? July 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 209
Summary:

Relates anecdote concerning the blind Henry Fawcett and the Bishop of Oxford; Fawcett proclaimed, within the other’s hearing, that the Bishop had not read the Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
8 Aug [1860]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 133)
Summary:

News of K. E. von Baer’s support is magnificent – far outweighs Owen and Agassiz. Asks THH to tell Baer that a statement from him would be of utmost value.

R. Wagner [in an article on Louis Agassiz’s principles of classification, Göttingsche gelehrte Anzeiger (1860) pt 2: 761–800] "goes half way" between Agassiz and Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project