From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1864
Source of text:
DAR 166: 300
Summary:
Asks CD to sign certificate nominating Flower for Royal Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
11 Apr [1864]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 203)
Summary:
Thanks for Lectures on the elements of comparative anatomy [1864].
If Owen wrote article on "Oken" [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 8th ed.] and French work on archetype he never did a baser act [see ML 1: 246 n.].
Bad health lately.
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Apr 1864
Source of text:
DAR 166: 301
Summary:
No doubt that Owen wrote "Oken" and the archetype book, which appeared in its second edition in French.
Pressures of work and family.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
3 Oct [1864]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 205)
Summary:
Admires THH’s article on Kölliker’s and Flourens’ criticisms of Origin [in Natural History Review (1864): 566–80].
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Oct 1864
Source of text:
DAR 166: 302
Summary:
Surprised at Kölliker’s misunderstanding; of Flourens he could have believed anything.
Family news.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1864
Source of text:
DAR 166: 303
Summary:
His pleasure at Royal Society Copley Medal for CD. Recounts meeting of Royal Society Council.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
5 Nov [1864]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 207)
Summary:
Appreciates THH’s note more than Medal.
Encourages THH to write a popular treatise on zoology.
Sends Mrs Huxley a quotation from Tennyson, with sarcastic comment.
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Dec 1864
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 2: 129–30)
Summary:
His suspicions regarding [Edward] Sabine’s treatment of CD were justified by the Anniversary Address. THH, [George] Busk, and [Hugh] Falconer insisted on a more accurate account of the grounds on which the Copley Medal was awarded to CD.
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From:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
5 Dec 1864
Source of text:
DAR 99: 72–5
Summary:
Sabine’s Royal Society address [awarding the Copley Medal to CD], in referring to the Origin, did not contain the words "expressly excluded". The actual words were "expressly omitted from the grounds of our award". This was not meant to place the Origin on a sort of index expurgatorium, but was a simple statement of fact.
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From:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
5 Dec 1864
Source of text:
DAR 99: 76
Summary:
Wishes to correct an expression in his last letter which is "perhaps not rigorously exact": he should not have said "declining to honour it [the Origin] with the Copley Medal" but simply "not honouring it with the Copley medal". "Declining implies having been asked and there was no asking in the present case."
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
Date:
6 Dec 1864
Source of text:
CUL (George Stokes papers, Add. 7656 H1383)
Summary:
He is certain he heard "expressly excluded" [of Origin from consideration in Royal Society award of Copley Medal]. Believes GGS may have inadvertently substituted "excluded" for "omitted". THH then submits his reasons for objecting to the passage as a whole even with the word "omitted".
Contributor:
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From:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
7 Dec 1864
Source of text:
DAR 99: 81–4
Summary:
It is improbable that he changed the wording of Sabine’s address without his noticing. Proceeds to defend the passage by quoting the rules of the award of the Copley Medal and the Royal Society Council’s action in this case, which is accurately presented in the wording of the award.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
Date:
8 Dec 1864
Source of text:
CUL (George Stokes papers, Add. 7656 H1385)
Summary:
THH never imagined that "we" referred to anyone but the [Royal] Society Council. Still objects to inclusion of the passage, since "an agreement to say nothing" [about the Origin] does not justify comment on it by one party to the agreement.
Contributor:
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From:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
8 Dec 1864
Source of text:
DAR 99: 87–8
Summary:
Corrects a minor error in his last letter.
Urges THH to return proofs of his paper to Royal Society. Some authors are more ready to come down on reviewers and secretary for delay than to get on with their own proofs.
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
Date:
9 Dec 1864
Source of text:
CUL (George Stokes papers, Add. 7656 H1386)
Summary:
THH rejects GGS’s charges. Chides him with possibility that if he substituted "Falconer" for "Busk" he might have done it also for "excluded" and "omitted".
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