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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
8 Mar [1859]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 61)
Summary:

Sends THH questions about "serial homologies" and "vegetative repetition" in Mollusca and Radiata.

Abstract volume [Origin] nearly completed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
13 [Mar 1859]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 258)
Summary:

Thanks for THH’s examples of serially modified and homologous parts in Radiata. Cannot understand how he forgot such cases.

Agassiz’s Essay on classification [1859] utterly impracticable rubbish.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
2 June [1859]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 65)
Summary:

THH should understand that CD’s hypothesis [natural selection] has as many flaws and holes as sound parts. The question is whether CD’s rag of a hypothesis is worth anything. A poor rag is better than nothing to carry one’s fruit to market.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
17 June 1859
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 6: 20)
Summary:

Extended discussion of their respective difficulties with the definition and status of species and with the extent to which the theory of transmutation may be applied.

Has rediscovered S. S. Haldeman’s 1844 paper defending the transmutation theory with great skill.

Asks for reference to Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire’s first enunciation of the progressive development and transmutation theory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
15 Oct [1859]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 70)
Summary:

Origin is finished.

Asks for names of foreign speculative naturalists.

Hopes THH will think he is on right road despite errors.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
24 [Nov 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 4 (EH 88205939)
Summary:

Murray has sold out Origin; wants a new edition immediately.

Asks THH to check whether Geoffroy de St Hilaire is correct [form of name].

Would be grateful for THH’s impressions on the truth of natural selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
25 Nov [1859]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 72)
Summary:

THH’s letter about the Origin makes CD feel like a Catholic who has received extreme unction. Can now sing nunc dimittis. Had determined to abide by judgment of Lyell, Hooker, and THH.

Problem of how variations arise at all troubles him also.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
25 Nov [1859]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 74)
Summary:

Rejoices over THH’s lecture ["On species and races, and their origin", 10 Feb 1860, Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 3 (1858–62): 195–200] to be given at Royal Institution. Offers pigeon illustrations.

Adam Sedgwick has sent a "slashing" letter [2548] about Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
27 Nov [1859]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 76)
Summary:

Sends references for materials useful for THH’s lecture.

Breeding and crossing. Pigeon fanciers.

Responses to Origin: A. C. Ramsay, Charles Kingsley, Quatrefages de Bréau.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project