From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 166: 324
Summary:
Thanks for new book [Descent].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 166: 325
Summary:
Shocked at Lyell’s appearance and speech.
Family news.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley; Henrietta Anne Heathorn; Henrietta Anne Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 99: 39–42
Summary:
Has received Chauncey Wright’s pamphlet [see 7940].
Has reviewed Quarterly Review article and 2d ed. of Genesis of species for the Contemporary Review [18 (1871): 443–76].
Mivart has hopelessly misunderstood Suarez [Disputiones (1630)] on evolution.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 99: 43–46
Summary:
Sends proof of article for Contemporary Review [18 (1871): 443–76].
Is grieved to hear that Mivart is author of Quarterly Review article. THH thought better of him than that.
Compares the Origin to Plato’s Republic: "it will remain fresh for two thousand years".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Oct 1871
Source of text:
DAR 166: 326
Summary:
Answers CD on transitional forms. Has no doubt Zeuglodon is transitional form between Carnivora and Cetacea.
Met Mivart in Manchester. Some doubt that he was the author of Quarterly Review article.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project