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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 7 Jan 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 134a–d
Summary:

On Haeckel’s Generelle Morphologie; the logical argument for natural selection is still incomplete. THH jumps over the hole by an act of faith.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
7 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 233)
Summary:

Gives up plan to have Haeckel’s Generelle morphologie translated.

His big book [Variation] has gone to printer. Thinks of adding a chapter on man.

Will order Duke of Argyll’s book [Reign of law (1867)].

"Nature never made species mutually sterile [by selection]; nor will man.–"

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
12 June [1867]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 235)
Summary:

Asks THH to think about a better name for "Pangenesis"; suggests "Cytarrogenesis" or "Atomogenesis", but still prefers vaguer "Pangenesis".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project