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DCP-LETT-3383

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 290
Summary:

Against all predictions his Edinburgh lecture was well received [Evidence as to man’s place in nature (1863)].

Took his old line about problem of infertility of hybrids as a test of CD’s views.

Report [from a newspaper] not quite right about what he said, but they have not refuted his statement that some form of progressive development theory is certainly true, nor that man and the apes come from same stock. Owen has gone in for progressive development in second edition of the Palaeontology [1861].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3396

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 291
Summary:

The Witness attacks THH’s lecture.

Assures CD he spoke more favourably of his doctrines than the reports show.

Agrees with CD’s arguments on sterility of hybrids and predicts physiological experiments will produce physiological species sterile inter se. Has come even closer to CD’s view especially since Primula paper. Will soon be more Darwinian than CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3436

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
2 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 223
Summary:

Returns a letter, which, when it is published, he believes will make readers take up THH’s lectures in a more impartial spirit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3535

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 May 1862
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 293
Summary:

Glad to receive CD’s pat on back for address.

Wants to know what CD thinks of the argument on geological contemporaneity.

On his poor health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3755

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1862
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 294
Summary:

The BAAS meeting at Cambridge was exhausting.

Owen came to attack him but was beaten; his paper fell flat.

A "society for propagation of common honesty in all parts of the world" was established at Cambridge [THH’s "Thorough Club"?].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3756

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Oct [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 295
Summary:

Thanks for a contribution ["On the so-called ""auditory-sac"" of cirripedes", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1863): 115–16; Collected papers 2: 85–7]. Is sending a proof.

This year’s lecture to working men to be devoted to CD’s book.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3841

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1862
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 296
Summary:

Sends first three of his Lectures to working men [on our knowledge of the phenomena of organic nature (1863)]. Does not intend them to be widely circulated.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3848

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
7 Dec [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 227, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 179)
Summary:

On THH’s Lectures to working men.

Work by Ferdinand J. Cohn on the contractile tissue of plants ["Über contractile Gewebe im Pflanzenreich" Abh. Schlesischen Ges. Vaterl. Cult. 1 (1861)] seems important. CD has come to the conclusion that there must be some substance in plants analogous to the supposed diffused nervous matter in lower animals.

[Part of P.S. missing from original.]

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