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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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Darwin Correspondence Project
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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:
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.

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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.

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