Search: letter in document-type 
No in transcription-available 
1870-1879::1874 in date 
Huxley, T. H. in author 
Sorted by:

Showing 19 of 9 items

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 154: 128
Summary:

Reports to CD on a spiritualist séance attended by himself (incognito) and G. H. Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Mar 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 193–4; Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (Huxley: 13.256, 13.258)
Summary:

Has heard from Dohrn about his financial problems. Asks CD’s advice on what to do.

THH’s article in Contemporary Review ["Universities: actual and ideal" (1874), Collected essays, vol. 3 (1894)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Mar 1874
Source of text:
DAR 166: 332
Summary:

His note on brain [in man and apes for 2d ed. of Descent] nearly finished.

Has heard nothing about Dohrn.

THH has been invited to lecture in America.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 198–9
Summary:

Sends his screed about the brain [for Descent], which he thinks pounds the enemy into a jelly.

Is in good health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 166: 333
Summary:

His note on the brain should be in small type.

Glad CD agrees with him on hand, foot, and skull question.

Has heard from Dohrn.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 June 1874
Source of text:
DAR 166: 334
Summary:

Returns proof of his note on brain for 2d ed. of Descent. Has added a reference to Abbé Lecomte’s "terrible pamphlet" [Le Darwinisme et l’origine de l’homme (1873)] "lest it be thought I meant our cher Owen".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 234–5
Summary:

K. G. Semper’s article ["On the relationship of the Vertebrata and Annelida", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 15 (1875): 94–5] is ill-natured. Misinterprets facts already discovered by F. M. Balfour.

Has been working on Amphioxus. Puts his theory of vertebrate skulls on firm footing at last.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 95: 356–7; DAR 166: 336
Summary:

Entirely sympathises with CD about Mivart’s attack on George. THH has had a letter from Mivart in which he pleads guilty, but THH has decided there is no patching the matter up. Advises against doing anything unless Mivart takes initiative.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
St George Jackson Mivart
Date:
[23 Dec 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 336
Summary:

A severe letter of rebuke to Mivart for his attack on G. H. Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project