From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Jan 1864
Source of text:
DAR 166: 300
Summary:
Asks CD to sign certificate nominating Flower for Royal Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Apr 1864
Source of text:
DAR 166: 301
Summary:
No doubt that Owen wrote "Oken" and the archetype book, which appeared in its second edition in French.
Pressures of work and family.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Oct 1864
Source of text:
DAR 166: 302
Summary:
Surprised at Kölliker’s misunderstanding; of Flourens he could have believed anything.
Family news.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1864
Source of text:
DAR 166: 303
Summary:
His pleasure at Royal Society Copley Medal for CD. Recounts meeting of Royal Society Council.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Dec 1864
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 2: 129–30)
Summary:
His suspicions regarding [Edward] Sabine’s treatment of CD were justified by the Anniversary Address. THH, [George] Busk, and [Hugh] Falconer insisted on a more accurate account of the grounds on which the Copley Medal was awarded to CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
Date:
6 Dec 1864
Source of text:
CUL (George Stokes papers, Add. 7656 H1383)
Summary:
He is certain he heard "expressly excluded" [of Origin from consideration in Royal Society award of Copley Medal]. Believes GGS may have inadvertently substituted "excluded" for "omitted". THH then submits his reasons for objecting to the passage as a whole even with the word "omitted".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
Date:
8 Dec 1864
Source of text:
CUL (George Stokes papers, Add. 7656 H1385)
Summary:
THH never imagined that "we" referred to anyone but the [Royal] Society Council. Still objects to inclusion of the passage, since "an agreement to say nothing" [about the Origin] does not justify comment on it by one party to the agreement.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
Date:
9 Dec 1864
Source of text:
CUL (George Stokes papers, Add. 7656 H1386)
Summary:
THH rejects GGS’s charges. Chides him with possibility that if he substituted "Falconer" for "Busk" he might have done it also for "excluded" and "omitted".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project