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DCP-LETT-13817

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

DCP-LETT-1697

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
10 June [1855]
Source of text:
Janet Huxley (private collection)
Summary:

Asks whether THH will attend Council of Royal Society and speak for him on Joachim Barrande and J. D. Dana.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6541F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[11 or 18] May 1871
Source of text:
Janet Huxley (private collection)
Summary:

Asks for a ticket for THH’s lecture at the Royal Institution for WED. With ED’s and HED’s forgeries of CD’s signature.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12604

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
11 May 1880
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 342); Janet Huxley (private collection)
Summary:

Comments on natural selection. Sometimes he can persuade himself that it is of quite subordinate importance, but so many structures have been explained by it that he can also persuade himself that every structure developed through it. Cites H. G. Bronn’s list [of structures not explicable by natural selection].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1757

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
29 [Sept 1855]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 21); Janet Huxley (private collection)
Summary:

Responds to THH’s questioning of his observations on cirripede anatomy with extensive discussion of what he observed. Admits his elementary knowledge of microscopical structures but seriously doubts he has erred. Cement glands, ovarian tubes, etc.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2660

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
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