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DCP-LETT-1514

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
11 Apr [1853]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 150Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 13)
Summary:

Offers to send Ascidia specimens of Beagle voyage. Describes some of them.

Hopes THH will review his book [Living Cirripedia, vol. 1] which has been published for a year with no notice taken of it except briefly by Dana.

Discusses Limulus-like larva. "I have become a man of one idea.– cirripedes morning & night."

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2041

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
17 Jan [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 1 (EH 88205939)
Summary:

Asks THH question on flow of glaciers after ice has been fractured and fragmented.

CD had to leave Royal Society lecture [joint paper by THH and J. Tyndall, "On the structure and motions of glaciers", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 147 (1857): 327–46] before the end because of headache.

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DCP-LETT-2119

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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DCP-LETT-2144

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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DCP-LETT-2185

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
16 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 151); DAR 145: 178
Summary:

THH’s catalogue [THH and R. Etheridge, A catalogue of the collection of fossils in the Museum of Practical Geology (1865), part published in 1857] best résumé he has seen of science of natural history. On classification he is not quite sure that he wholly goes along with THH. Encloses a few criticisms of THH’s preface.[enclosure survives as copy only].

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DCP-LETT-2381

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

DCP-LETT-2427

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

DCP-LETT-2544

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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DCP-LETT-2550

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

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.

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