From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
3 Jan [1861]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 155, 372–6)
Summary:
Congratulates THH on first number of Natural History Review.
THH’s article on brain ["On the zoological relations of man with the lower animals", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1861): 67–84] completely smashes Owen.
Owen’s Leeds address [Rep. BAAS (1858): xlix–cx].
In his historical sketch of opinion on species CD has picked out some sentences [by Owen] with which he will take some revenge. CD is not bold enough to come to an open quarrel.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project