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DCP-LETT-3852

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
10 [Jan 1863]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 183)
Summary:

CD overwhelmed by THH’s praise.

Agrees with his reservations about species theory but not wholly about sterility and gives his reasons for differing.

On Natural History Review, Hugh Falconer, and R. Owen.

Has written a review [Collected papers 2: 87–92] of H. W. Bates’s paper ["Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 23 (1862): 495–566].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2662

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
23 Jan [1863-4]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 254)
Summary:

THH’s efforts to obtain Copley Medal for CD fail. Thanks THH for kind words of sympathy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3973

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[8 Feb 1863]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 19)
Summary:

On six-fingered men: suspects increase confined to metacarpals and digits. Has asked James Paget to look it up.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3987

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
16 Feb [1863]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 200)
Summary:

It is not carpal or tarsal bones that are increased [in six-fingered men] but generally only the digits and metacarpals.

Pectoral fins of fish and sharks.

Asks THH to check P. M. Roget’s statement that there is a rudiment of a sixth digit in frogs.

[P.S. missing from original.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3992F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[after 16 Feb 1863]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 202)
Summary:

A note reminding THH to examine the rudiment of the 6th toe on the hind foot of a Batrachian.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3996

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
18 [Feb 1863]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 173)
Summary:

Thanks for "monkey book" [Evidence as to man’s place in nature (1863)].

Must wait till he has finished Lyell [Antiquity of man (1863)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4001

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 166: 297
Summary:

Has not answered CD’s former letters. Has been ill. Will look up fish business as soon as he is square again.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3896

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[before 25 Feb 1863]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 181)
Summary:

Two criticisms (one by Henrietta Darwin) of THH’s Lectures [to working men].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4010

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 166: 299
Summary:

Pleads guilty to both criticisms of "Miss Henrietta Minor Rhadamanthus Darwin" [see 3896] of points in his Lectures [to working men].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4013

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
26 [Feb 1863]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 191)
Summary:

Praise of Man’s place.

Owen’s muddling letter in Athenæum [21 Feb 1863, pp. 262–3].

Is disappointed in Lyell’s excessive caution on species and origin of man [in Antiquity of man].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4223

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
27 June [1863]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 225)
Summary:

Has caught a frog and examined its possibly rudimentary toe. Asks THH if he will dissect it.

Has heard THH is abused in Edinburgh Review and in Anthropological Review [reviews of Man’s place in nature, Edinburgh Rev. 117 (1863): 541–69 and Anthrop. Rev. 1 (1863): 107–17].

Owen on heterogeny and the aye-aye.

Has been very ill.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4228

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 July 1863
Source of text:
DAR 166: 298
Summary:

Too busy to examine specimen. Will ask W. H. Flower to do it. Long catalogue of what keeps him busy and concerned.

C. Carter Blake, "a jackal of Owen’s", is the reviewer in Edinburgh Review and Anthropological Review [see 4223]. Has sent back his diploma of Hon. Fellowship to Anthropological Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4232

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
3 July [1863]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 229)
Summary:

Will be obliged if Flower examines specimens. States questions he wants answered.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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