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DCP-LETT-2572

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[5 Dec 1859]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 78)
Summary:

Thanks for THH’s review of Origin in Macmillan’s Magazine ["Time and life: Mr Darwin’s Origin of Species", 1 (1859–60): 142–8]. Reception of natural selection will depend on whether it explains the recognised laws in the several fields of natural history.

Domestic variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2574

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[9 Dec 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 189
Summary:

Sends enclosure [unspecified].

Reminds THH to mention [German] translation [of Origin] when he writes to R. A. von Kölliker.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2582

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
13 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 82–6)
Summary:

Sends anecdotes and drawings of pigeons for Royal Institution lecture. Offers parts on hybridisation and pigeons from his MS (if THH has patience to read them).

Has heard George Busk is converted.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2585

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
16 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 87)
Summary:

Will bring materials for Royal Institution lecture [when he comes to London].

Plans to bring out separate detailed volumes [on his theory], starting with domestic variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2600

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
24 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:

Sends MS on pigeons for THH’s lecture at Royal Institution.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2603

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
25 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 90)
Summary:

Henry Holland and others have attacked his reasoning from analogy to one primordial created form – by which CD means only that we know nothing of how life originated. The reasoning seems probable to him, so he has kept it in.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2611

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
28 Dec [1859]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 92)
Summary:

Delighted with Times review [26 Dec 1859]. Puzzled by author, suspects THH, but publication in Times makes it unlikely. Sorry for Owen.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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