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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
17 July [1851]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 2)
Summary:

Thanks for report [on echinoderms, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. 8 (1851): 1–19]. Wanted to learn about metamorphosis of the class. Agrees with THH’s distinction between individuals and zooids, but thinks zooids will never cease to be called individuals.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
9 Oct 1851
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 1)
Summary:

Testimonial for THH’s application for Chair in Natural History at Toronto.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
22 Nov [1851]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 14)
Summary:

Proposes to send THH vol. 1 of Living Cirripedia.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
11 Apr [1853]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 150Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 13)
Summary:

Offers to send Ascidia specimens of Beagle voyage. Describes some of them.

Hopes THH will review his book [Living Cirripedia, vol. 1] which has been published for a year with no notice taken of it except briefly by Dana.

Discusses Limulus-like larva. "I have become a man of one idea.– cirripedes morning & night."

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
23 Apr [1853]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 4)
Summary:

On THH’s paper on cephalous Mollusca [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 143 (1853) pt 1: 29–66]. Discovery of the type or "idea" (in THH’s sense, not Owen’s or Agassiz’s) is one of the highest ends of natural history.

Discusses anamorphism;

position of heart in Cleodora.

Variability within species;

cementing process in cirripedes.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
2 Sept [1854]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 8)
Summary:

Second Living Cirripedia volume published. Asks THH’s advice on presentation copies for continental naturalists.

THH’s review of Vestiges of creation in [Br. & Foreign Med.-Chir. Rev. 13 (1854)]. CD is almost as unorthodox on species as the author of Vestiges, but hopes not quite so unphilosophical.

Hopes L. Agassiz was sounder on embryological stages than THH thinks.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
8 Sept [1854]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 11)
Summary:

Agrees with THH on metamorphosis of branchiae of Balanus, and on his view of Owen.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
13 Sept [1854]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 16)
Summary:

Thanks for help on presentation copies of Living Cirripedia, vol. 2.

Suggests he examine cementing apparatus of Balanus.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
20 Feb [1855]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 23, 372, 376)
Summary:

Sends specimens of sessile cirripedes for corroboration of their cementing apparatus.

Absence of anus in Brachiopoda and Alcippe cirripedes.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
8 Mar [1855]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 25)
Summary:

Thanks THH for corroborating his observations. Discusses metamorphosis of ovaria to cement organs. Ovaries, germinal vesicles, and anatomy of cirripedes. Difficulties of classification, and observation.

THH’s article on Mollusca [Charles Knight, ed., English cyclopædia: a new dictionary of universal knowledge (1854–70) 3: 855–74].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
31 Mar [1855]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 29)
Summary:

Thinks J. O. Westwood deserves Royal Society’s Gold Medal. Asks THH’s opinion of his nomination. Lyell deserves Copley Medal, but, since he has Royal Medal, it may be objectionable to propose him.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
18 Apr [1855]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 31)
Summary:

Thomas Bell thinks John Lindley superior for Royal Society Medal. CD agrees, but demurs at Medal going to same branch of science two years in succession.

Perplexed about Albany Hancock’s qualifications compared with J. O. Westwood’s.

Death of H. De la Beche.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
10 June [1855]
Source of text:
Janet Huxley (private collection)
Summary:

Asks whether THH will attend Council of Royal Society and speak for him on Joachim Barrande and J. D. Dana.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
3 [Sept 1855]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 18)
Summary:

Approves drawing. No one who cannot draw should attempt to be a naturalist. Suggests corrections to [Lepas?] drawing. Comments on position of ganglia, cement glands, and stomach.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
29 [Sept 1855]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 21); Janet Huxley (private collection)
Summary:

Responds to THH’s questioning of his observations on cirripede anatomy with extensive discussion of what he observed. Admits his elementary knowledge of microscopical structures but seriously doubts he has erred. Cement glands, ovarian tubes, etc.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
2 Apr [1856]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 46)
Summary:

Invitation to THH and wife to come to Down to meet H. C. Watson, T. V. Wollaston, and the Hookers.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
9 Apr [1856]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 33)
Summary:

Arrangements for visit of Huxleys to Down on 26 Apr.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
4 May [1856]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 35)
Summary:

It seems improper that his advances to G. B. Sowerby Jr for payment of engravings should not have been mentioned to Council of Ray Society. His appreciation of the Society.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
27 May [1856]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 174)
Summary:

Has written very strong notes to Lord Overstone and Sir J. W. Lubbock and hopes they will be of service to THH.

Acknowledges receipt of THH’s lecture [unidentified].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
1 July [1856]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 175, 37–9)
Summary:

Asks for information on geographical distribution of ascidians; are any closely allied species or genera found in north and south temperate zones that do not have representatives in the tropics?

Answers some questions on [cirripede] antennae.

If THH ever sees a tree washed ashore, will he observe whether any earth is embedded between roots?

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