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DCP-LETT-9769

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
22 Dec [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 273
Summary:

Thanks THH and Hooker for defending George Darwin against Mivart’s libel.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9776

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
24 Dec [1874]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 311)
Summary:

THH’s letter to Mivart is "tremendous". CD’s feelings and intentions about the matter.

If THH has made out homology of the skull, it is grandest discovery in years.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9804

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
6 Jan 1875
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 313)
Summary:

Thanks THH for his article in the Academy and his defence of CD and G. H. Darwin against Mivart. Still thinks he should write plainly to Mivart.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9813

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[after 12 Jan 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 276
Summary:

CD has written to Mivart to say that he will never hold any communication with him in future.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9817

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
14 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 97: C37–8
Summary:

Is alarmed by the petitions against vivisection that are being circulated. Believes there is scope for reasonable legislation and would like to see eminent physiologists prepare a petition so that the science could be protected and animals saved from needless suffering.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9831

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
27 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A48–53
Summary:

Sends suggestions for observations on glacial phenomena that might be made on the [Polar] expedition [of H. M. S. Alert and Discovery, 1875–6].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9986

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
21 May 1875
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 316)
Summary:

CD believes Playfair’s bill would not restrict demonstrations under anaesthetic.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7953

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley; Henrietta Anne Heathorn; Henrietta Anne Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 99: 39–42
Summary:

Has received Chauncey Wright’s pamphlet [see 7940].

Has reviewed Quarterly Review article and 2d ed. of Genesis of species for the Contemporary Review [18 (1871): 443–76].

Mivart has hopelessly misunderstood Suarez [Disputiones (1630)] on evolution.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8562

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley; Henrietta Anne Heathorn; Henrietta Anne Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Oct 1872
Source of text:
DAR 166: 285
Summary:

Appreciation of the "marriage gift"; their affection for CD.

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