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DCP-LETT-9749

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Fiske
Date:
8 Dec [1874]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (FK 1110–1112)
Summary:

Praises JF’s book [Cosmic philosophy (1874)].

Has long wished to understand H. Spencer but is not convinced by him and some others. CD cannot trust deduction from a starting principle, as his mind is so fixed by the inductive method.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9750

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 232–3
Summary:

Delighted with Farrer’s assistance. A. Helps has also spoken to Sir S. Northcote.

JDH is getting on well but has periods of great depression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9748

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Dec 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 234–5
Summary:

K. G. Semper’s article ["On the relationship of the Vertebrata and Annelida", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 15 (1875): 94–5] is ill-natured. Misinterprets facts already discovered by F. M. Balfour.

Has been working on Amphioxus. Puts his theory of vertebrate skulls on firm footing at last.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9750F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Carl Noll
Date:
8 Dec [1874]
Source of text:
Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin (Historische Sammlungen EH 112)
Summary:

Thanks for the essay on a curious new cirripede. He will not accept the offer of microscopical preparations.

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