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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 July 1857
Source of text:
DAR 11.1: 41a
Summary:

THH comments on G. A. Brullé’s paper ["Researches upon the transformations of the appendages of the Articulata", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 13 (1844): 484–6].

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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 3 Oct 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 205.5: 218
Summary:

On classification and possibilities of a scientific morphology and zoology. CD’s "pedigree business" is important for physiology but has nothing to do with pure zoology any more than human pedigree has to do with the census. Zoological classification is a census of the animal world.

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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Dec 1858
Source of text:
DAR 166: 289
Summary:

K. E. von Baer’s view of the air bladder of fishes.

Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[9–12 Mar 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 288
Summary:

Serial homologies in the Mollusca. Gives instances of repetition of homological parts in Radiata.

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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Nov 1859
Source of text:
DAR 98: B11–13
Summary:

Has just finished Origin. CD has demonstrated a true cause for the production of species.

CD has loaded himself with unnecessary difficulty in adopting natura non facit saltum.

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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Aug 1860
Source of text:
DAR 98 (ser. 2): 31–2
Summary:

Announces great ally for CD: K. E. von Baer "worth all the Owens & Bishops that ever were pupped". Quotes Baer: "J’ai énoncé les mêmes idées que M. Darwin", but based only on zoological geography.

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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 14 Dec 1860]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium, Harvard University (39)
Summary:

Would be glad to have Chauncey Wright’s [Origin] review for the Natural History Review.

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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 290
Summary:

Against all predictions his Edinburgh lecture was well received [Evidence as to man’s place in nature (1863)].

Took his old line about problem of infertility of hybrids as a test of CD’s views.

Report [from a newspaper] not quite right about what he said, but they have not refuted his statement that some form of progressive development theory is certainly true, nor that man and the apes come from same stock. Owen has gone in for progressive development in second edition of the Palaeontology [1861].

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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Jan 1862
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 291
Summary:

The Witness attacks THH’s lecture.

Assures CD he spoke more favourably of his doctrines than the reports show.

Agrees with CD’s arguments on sterility of hybrids and predicts physiological experiments will produce physiological species sterile inter se. Has come even closer to CD’s view especially since Primula paper. Will soon be more Darwinian than CD.

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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 May 1862
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 293
Summary:

Glad to receive CD’s pat on back for address.

Wants to know what CD thinks of the argument on geological contemporaneity.

On his poor health.

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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Oct 1862
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 294
Summary:

The BAAS meeting at Cambridge was exhausting.

Owen came to attack him but was beaten; his paper fell flat.

A "society for propagation of common honesty in all parts of the world" was established at Cambridge [THH’s "Thorough Club"?].

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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Oct [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 295
Summary:

Thanks for a contribution ["On the so-called ""auditory-sac"" of cirripedes", Nat. Hist. Rev. (1863): 115–16; Collected papers 2: 85–7]. Is sending a proof.

This year’s lecture to working men to be devoted to CD’s book.

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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1862
Source of text:
DAR 166.2: 296
Summary:

Sends first three of his Lectures to working men [on our knowledge of the phenomena of organic nature (1863)]. Does not intend them to be widely circulated.

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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.

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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].

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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