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FL-1244

From:
Huxley, T. H.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
20 May 1880
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1912
Summary:

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Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-12597

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[7 May] 1880
Source of text:
DAR 145: 289; Janet Huxley (private collection)
Summary:

Expresses his delight with and admiration for THH’s "Coming of age [of The origin of species]" in Nature [22 (1880): 1–4].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12603

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 May 1880
Source of text:
DAR 166: 352
Summary:

Hopes CD does not think his faith in natural selection is weak because he omitted mention of it in his lecture.

Is working on dogs. They will make a case for "Darwinismus".

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].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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