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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
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From:
Edward Burnett Tylor
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 178: 202
Summary:

Thanks for CD’s praise of his book [Primitive culture (1871)], wonders if he should abridge part into a small popular volume.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Druitt
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 262.11: 8 (EH 88206060)
Summary:

Sends CD £100 as requested. Gives information on bonds purchased on CD’s behalf.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 Sept [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 206
Summary:

Sends proofs of Huxley’s article on Mivart, to be published in Contemporary Review ["Mr Darwin’s critics", 18 (1871): 443–76].

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