From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 166: 324
Summary:
Thanks for new book [Descent].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[11 or 18] May 1871
Source of text:
Janet Huxley (private collection)
Summary:
Asks for a ticket for THH’s lecture at the Royal Institution for WED. With ED’s and HED’s forgeries of CD’s signature.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 166: 325
Summary:
Shocked at Lyell’s appearance and speech.
Family news.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
21 Sept [1871]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 279)
Summary:
On Mivart’s Genesis of species, and THH’s intention to reply to it.
Chauncey Wright’s pamphlet [see 7940].
CD is revising Origin and will answer Mivart on incipient organs. "Pendulum is swinging against us, but will swing back again".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 99: 43–46
Summary:
Sends proof of article for Contemporary Review [18 (1871): 443–76].
Is grieved to hear that Mivart is author of Quarterly Review article. THH thought better of him than that.
Compares the Origin to Plato’s Republic: "it will remain fresh for two thousand years".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
30 Sept [1871]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 283)
Summary:
On THH’s review [see 7977] of Mivart’s Genesis of species and the Quarterly Review article on Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
5 Oct [1871]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 287)
Summary:
Hooker admires THH’s review of Mivart [see 7977]. Most impressed by THH’s handling of metaphysics.
Hooker’s problems: family health and A. S. Ayrton [Commissioner of Works].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
9 Oct [1871]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 289)
Summary:
Asks whether THH has written on affinities of Eocene cetacean Zeuglodon. Wants to cite it in 6th ed. of Origin as in some slight degree an intermediate form, but does not know how far he may venture.
Has had more evidence of profound impression of Mivart’s book [Genesis of species].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 166: 326
Summary:
Answers CD on transitional forms. Has no doubt Zeuglodon is transitional form between Carnivora and Cetacea.
Met Mivart in Manchester. Some doubt that he was the author of Quarterly Review article.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project