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From:
Huxley, T. H.
To:
Darwin?, G. H.
Date:
9 December 1883
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 33
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Huxley, T. H.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
20 May 1880
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1912
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 June 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 341
Summary:
Playfair "disgusted at our pronunciamentos against the Bill". Burdon Sanderson and William Sharpey agreed to it. THH feels he must serve on Vivisection Commission.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
23 Oct [1875]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 320)
Summary:
Thanks for THH’s essay on species [article for an American encyclopedia].
Will probably never again write on large and general subjects; will keep to easier specific ones such as insectivorous and climbing plants.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 351, DAR 166: 343
Summary:
Encloses an invitation to give evidence to Vivisection Commission. Satisfied with way things were going, but E. E. Klein’s evidence that he is utterly indifferent to pain of animals has done great mischief.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
1 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 322)
Summary:
Astonished and disgusted at Klein’s evidence. No doubt there will be severe and vicious legislation against physiology. Will give evidence before Commission.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 344
Summary:
Arrangements for CD’s appearance before Vivisection Commission.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
12 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 324)
Summary:
Thanks for Elementary biology [1875]. Wishes he had had a course like it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
10 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 325)
Summary:
Is coming to London. Will call on THH.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1876
Source of text:
DAR 166: 345
Summary:
A Dr Sarazin offers services as translator.
Will read CD’s letter about Robert Swinhoe to Royal Society Council and see what can be done for him.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Nov 1876
Source of text:
DAR 166: 346–7
Summary:
Agrees with CD that Charles Voysey’s "Protest" would not do any good.
Has less sympathy with half-hearted sentimental school than with thorough-going orthodoxy. On theological dogmas, benevolence of the Creator.
[Encloses copy of his letter to Voysey.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
19 Nov [1877]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 328)
Summary:
Deeply grateful for THH’s tribute to him at conferring of LL.D. at Cambridge.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Nov 1877
Source of text:
DAR 166: 348
Summary:
He said nothing in his tribute to CD that was not strictly accurate. Has written out a version as well as he can recollect it and will send CD a copy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 166: 349
Summary:
Sends article on "Evolution" [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed.]. CD will be interested in Lamarck’s opinions in 1794.
Is working on crayfish and their distribution.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
11 June [1878]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 331)
Summary:
Thanks for evolution article; would like to know what made Lamarck "change his front" so completely.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July 1878
Source of text:
DAR 166: 350
Summary:
Othniel Marsh of Yale would like to visit CD.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
11 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 326)
Summary:
CD’s election to Botany Section of French Academy amuses him, because he "doesn’t know the characters of a single natural order!".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 210.12: 8
Summary:
Describes Anthony Rich, whom he has visited.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
29 Dec 1878
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 329)
Summary:
About Anthony Rich, who has decided to leave his fortune to CD [and later also to make a bequest to THH]. CD’s account of what he wrote to Rich.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
18 Jan 1879
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 333)
Summary:
Has read Hume with great pleasure, but found parts very stiff reading.
George Darwin has visited Anthony Rich.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project