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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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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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