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DCP-LETT-3973

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[8 Feb 1863]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 19)
Summary:

On six-fingered men: suspects increase confined to metacarpals and digits. Has asked James Paget to look it up.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3987

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
16 Feb [1863]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 200)
Summary:

It is not carpal or tarsal bones that are increased [in six-fingered men] but generally only the digits and metacarpals.

Pectoral fins of fish and sharks.

Asks THH to check P. M. Roget’s statement that there is a rudiment of a sixth digit in frogs.

[P.S. missing from original.]

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3992F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[after 16 Feb 1863]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 202)
Summary:

A note reminding THH to examine the rudiment of the 6th toe on the hind foot of a Batrachian.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3996

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
18 [Feb 1863]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 173)
Summary:

Thanks for "monkey book" [Evidence as to man’s place in nature (1863)].

Must wait till he has finished Lyell [Antiquity of man (1863)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3896

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[before 25 Feb 1863]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 181)
Summary:

Two criticisms (one by Henrietta Darwin) of THH’s Lectures [to working men].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4013

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
26 [Feb 1863]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 191)
Summary:

Praise of Man’s place.

Owen’s muddling letter in Athenæum [21 Feb 1863, pp. 262–3].

Is disappointed in Lyell’s excessive caution on species and origin of man [in Antiquity of man].

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