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DCP-LETT-13215

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
22 June 1881
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 364)
Summary:

Has had letter from Rothenburg asking him to help obtain a grant for Haeckel’s expedition to Ceylon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13324

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
9 Sept 1881
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 368)
Summary:

Erasmus has left half his fortune to CD. Anthony Rich nevertheless insists on keeping to his testamentary arrangements. He also referred to leaving some additional property to THH.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13612

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
12 Jan 1882
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 370)
Summary:

Thanks for Science and culture [1881].

Refers to "Automatism" ["On the hypothesis that animals are automata"], wishing THH could review himself and answer himself and thus go on ad infinitum to the joy and instruction of the world.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13744

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
27 Mar 1882
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 371)
Summary:

Feels better. Grateful for THH’s kind letter. Wishes there were more automata like him.

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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