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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[9 Dec 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 189
Summary:

Sends enclosure [unspecified].

Reminds THH to mention [German] translation [of Origin] when he writes to R. A. von Kölliker.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
13 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 82–6)
Summary:

Sends anecdotes and drawings of pigeons for Royal Institution lecture. Offers parts on hybridisation and pigeons from his MS (if THH has patience to read them).

Has heard George Busk is converted.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
16 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 87)
Summary:

Will bring materials for Royal Institution lecture [when he comes to London].

Plans to bring out separate detailed volumes [on his theory], starting with domestic variation.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
24 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:

Sends MS on pigeons for THH’s lecture at Royal Institution.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
25 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 90)
Summary:

Henry Holland and others have attacked his reasoning from analogy to one primordial created form – by which CD means only that we know nothing of how life originated. The reasoning seems probable to him, so he has kept it in.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
28 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 92)
Summary:

Delighted with Times review [26 Dec 1859]. Puzzled by author, suspects THH, but publication in Times makes it unlikely. Sorry for Owen.

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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.

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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:
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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.

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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].

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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.

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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)].

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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:
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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.

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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:
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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.

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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.

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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].

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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:
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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".

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