Huxley's article in Nineteenth Century approved; position of the Broad Church

Owing to change in his views on religious questions has resigned from the ministry of the Church, and asks Huxley to help him to find lay employment

Sends memoir of Dr [Asa] Gray, dealing with his position as to Natural Selection and Darwin

Alleges neglect of students by Professor of Chemistry at South Kensington

Is sending his letter to Dr Frankland
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Thanks for Report [on Echinorderms, Annals and Magazine of Natural History, July 1851; The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 103]; remarks on Zooids

Testimonial for Huxley's Toronto candidature [Testimonials of Thomas H Huxley, FRS, Candidate for the Chair of Natural History at the University of Toronto, 4]

Embryological development; features suggested by the work of Brulle and Barneoud; wants references to embryology of bats

Proposes to send his work on Cirripedia [Ray Society, 1851] to Huxley, unless he is a member of the Society

Is sending specimens for Huxley to J E Gray [at British Museum]; thanks for paper on Mollusca [Philosophical Transactions, 1853, i, 29. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 152]; discussion thereon; variations within the same species. [More Letters of Charles Darwin i, 73 (dated 1854)]

His second volume of Barnacles published [Balanidoe, etc, Ray Society 1854]; is sending it; asks for names of continental naturalists to whom he should present copies; asks if Royal Society will assist in distribution; a review of Vestiges; Huxley's opinion of Agassiz [More Letters of Charles Darwin i, 74]

Asks which of the two Leuckarts [Friedrich Sigismund or Rudolf] has been publishing much since 1820; Huxley's views on the branchiae of Balanus agree with his own

[Beginning missing]. On larval Limulus; "I have become a man of one idea Cirripedes - morning and night"

Thanks Huxley for help in the distribution of his work [Balanidoe, Ray Society 1854] to foreign naturalists; cement-glands of Balanus

Thanks Huxley for drawing; comments on position of ganglia, cement-glands and stomach [? of Lepas and Balanus]

His "lack of elementary knowledge of microscopical structures"; cement-gland and ducts; ovarian tubes, etc [of Cirripedes]

Sends specimens of cementing-apparatus of Sessile Cirripedes; absence of anus in the Brachiopoda

Thanks Huxley for examining his preparations; metamorphoses or adaptation of part of the ovaria to the cement-organs; long discussion on anatomy and physiology of Cirripedes; Huxley's Encyclopaedia article on Mollusca

Thinks Westwood deserves [Royal] medal; sends recommendation to Council of Royal Society for Huxley's approval; thinks Lyell should have Copley medal. [More Letters of Charles Darwin i, 80]

Sends Huxley reply of Bell [Secretary of Royal Society] suggesting that Lindley has a higher claim than Westwood to the medal; [Westwood had Royal Medal in 1855 and Lindley in 1857]; death of De la Beche

Arrangements for visit of Huxley and his wife to Down

Asks Huxley to bring the cost of engraving plates to the notice of Council of the Ray Society; his obligations to the Society; enjoyment of Huxley's visit

Certain invertebrate structures; bisexualism in Flustra and the Ascidia

Siebold's researches; [On a true Parthenogenesis of Moths and Bees]; hybridism in bees; still holds the view that cement-receptacle is continuous with the ovarian tubes; birth of his sixth son

Cement-glands in Crustacea, etc. Three postscripts (5, 37-9)

Congratulations on birth of Huxley's son

Glacial action, [cf Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 144]; the break with Owen [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 142]

Huxley's comment on Darwin's theory suggested by Brulle and Barneoud. [More Letters of Charles Darwin i, 97]

Agassiz and Lyell on Glaciers; diverse opinions on natural selection; when "heterodoxy becomes orthodoxy" [More Letters of Charles Darwin i, 103]

Congratulates Huxley on birth of daughter; races and varieties of horses

Invitation to Huxley and his wife to meet the Hookers at Down

Is unwilling to sign memorial on the removal of Botanical Collections of the British Museum, and states reasons at length. [More Letters of Charles Darwin i, 110]

[To J D Hooker]. In view of further information received is willing to sign memorial, but thinks it would be an evil to move the Museum to Kensington. [More Letters of Charles Darwin i, 112]

The reproduction of Aphis; Owen's theory. [More Letters of Charles Darwin i, 102]

Having corresponded with Hooker, is now prepared to sign memorial, thinks Lyell should be consulted. [More Letters of Charles Darwin i, 112]

Has had misgivings after signing the memorial [see 00594, 00595, 00597]; thinks Murchison should have been informed before it was sent in

Queries relating to Mollusca, Radiata, etc; serial homologies; is endeavouring to get his "abstract volume" [Origin of Species] completed

Modified and homologous parts in the Radiata; Agassiz's Essay on Classification

Flaws in his hypothesis

Asks for names of foreign naturalists to whom he should send the Origin; an advance copy to be sent to Huxley [Life and Letters of Charles Darwin ii, 172]

Asa Gray's review of the Origin; fair but hostile review by Pictet [cf Life and Letters of Charles Darwin ii, 297]; Athenaeum review of Tyndall's Glaciers [More Letters of Charles Darwin i, 166]

Can now say Nunc dimittis after hearing Huxley's verdict on the Origin [Life and Letters of Charles Darwin ii, 232]

Will send coloured drawings of pigeons; hostile criticism of Origin by Sedgwick and Phillips [More Letters of Charles Darwin i, 129]

Hybrids and monsters; pigeon breeding; Kingsley inclined to favour evolution [Life and Letters of Charles Darwin ii, 280; cf Charles Kingsley, his Letters and Memoirs of his Life ii, 135]

Appreciation of Huxley's review in Macmillan's Magazine; the test of natural selection

Has a fine series of drawings of pigeons for Huxley's Royal Institution lectures; hybridization and breeding [More Letters of Charles Darwin i, 130]

Will bring drawings, etc to Huxley at Jermyn Street; intends to study variation under domestication [More Letters of Charles Darwin i, 131]

Sir H[enry] H[olland] and others have criticized his statements as to analogy [Origin, p 484]; thanks Huxley for his continued advocacy [Life and Letters of Charles Darwin ii, 251]

Is delighted with The Times review; puzzled as to its authorship; its probable reaction on Owen [Life and Letters of Charles Darwin ii, 253, part]

Will keep the secret of the authorship; Hooker thought the first sentence betrayed the author [cf Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 77]; Lubbock thought that Owen was the author; illness of Dana [More Letters of Charles Darwin i, 139, much 'edited']

Sends ticket for Pigeon Show; Lamarck's theory independently stated by Erasmus Darwin in 1794 [More Letters of Charles Darwin i, 125]

Asks Huxley to re-read a passage of the Origin (267-272) on crossing varieties and to reconsider it; the principles involved [More Letters of Charles Darwin i, 137]

Is sending 2nd edition of Origin [published 7 January]; few corrections in it; is coming to London; already contemplating the "fuller work" [Variation under Domestication]

Huxley's endeavours to procure award of [Copley] Medal; Carpenter's review of the Origin in Natural Review

A proposal from Bronn for a German edition of the Origin [More Letters of Charles Darwin i, 139]

Will write to Bronn about the German translation [cf Life and Letters of Charles Darwin ii, 277]; asks Huxley to write to Kolliker

Huxley's review in The Times reprinted in full in Gardener's Chronicle

The critique on the Origin in the Edinburgh Review; its misrepresentations and misquotations, and "brutal attack" on Huxley [Now known to be by Owen; More Letters of Charles Darwin i, 146]

Huxley's Royal Institution Lecture [On Species and Races, Annals and Magazine of Natural History v, 344]; "the most eloquent production I have ever read"; sends Part I of German translation of Origin

Huxley's work on Deep Sea Soundings; Bronn has sent his Morphologische Studien [More Letters of Charles Darwin ii, 232 and notes]

Variations in domesticated pigeons; results of rewording the whole subject; a critique on the Origin in the Saturday Review

An exhibition of pigeons to illustrate a lecture by Huxley

Away for his health and that of his daughter; Hooker has reported the battle at Oxford with Owen and the Bishop; asks Huxley for his own account of it [Life and Letters of Charles Darwin ii, 324]

His appreciation of Huxley's account of the Oxford affair; review by Hopkins in Fraser's Magazine; Asa Gray "fighting like a Trojan" [More Letters of Charles Darwin i, 158]

The Quarterly Review review by Wilberforce; effect of the Oxford meeting; the functions and prospects of Natural History Review; his own methods of work [More Letters of Charles Darwin i, 156; Life and Letters of Charles Darwin ii, 324, part]

Von Baer's advocacy of Natural Selection an antidote to Owen and Agassiz; R Wagner thinks the truth "halfway between Agassiz and the Origin" [Life and Letters of Charles Darwin ii, 330]

Thanks Huxley for his lectures; they contain a good account of the Cirripedes

Classification; Cuvier's and the Natural System; a genealogical classification; the descent of man

Huxley's term "Pithecoid Man"; glacial action at Lebanon; his daughter's illness [More Letters of Charles Darwin i, 460]

Prospectus of Natural History Review; his daughter now well enough to be taken home

Thanks for Huxley's lecture; classification; reading and observation; his daughter makes no improvement; McDonnell's work on the electric organs of fishes

A satisfactory letter from McDonnell; is eagerly awaiting appearance of Natural History Review; a new [3rd] edition of Origin called for. [Part in Life and Letters of Charles Darwin ii, 351]

Is weary of hostile reviews, but they give him confidence that his theory is right, notwithstanding its difficulties [Life and Letters of Charles Darwin ii, 354, part]

Huxley's advocacy of his views; critique in Macmillan's Magazine; [J E] Gray's opinion that Natural Selection cannot apply to plants; his misunderstanding of the Origin

The first issue of Natural History Review; complete refutation of Own [More Letters of Charles Darwin i, 177]

Invitation to Mrs Huxley and her children

Invitation to join Hooker at Down

Huxley's letter on Owen in Athenaeum [30 March 1861, p 433]

A review by Wright; is going with his family to Torquay; death of Henslow

A letter from Asa Gray about Wright

Huxley's Edinburgh lectures [cf Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 192]; the hybrid question; heterostyled plans [Life and Letters of Charles Darwin ii, 384, part; cf iii, 296]

The Witness attack on Huxley [cf Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 193]; sterility and hybridity

Sends draft of Wright's review; Asa Gray's articles on the Origin republished as a pamphlet; Huxley's Edinburgh lectures

Huxley's address [at Geological Society]; his own views on Contemporaneity [Origin, edition 3, 349]

Thanks for Huxley's Lectures [to Working Men] [cf Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 206; More Letters of Charles Darwin i, 215]

Further comments on the lectures; Falconer's article in Natural History Review; disgusted at Owen's conduct [More Letters of Charles Darwin i, 231]

Comments on Huxley's lectures IV and V [More Letters of Charles Darwin i, 229]

Returns Kingsley's letter [see KINGSLEY, No 15]; Tegetmeier and bird hybrids [More Letters of Charles Darwin i, 225]

Plydactylism; double monsters; increase in number of carpal bones

Polydactylism affecting digits only; trace of a sixth toe in frogs

Thanks for "monkey book" [Man's Place in Nature]

Has read Man's Place; remarks thereon; Owen's letter in Athenaeum [21 February 1863]; hopes Lyell will answer. [He did so in Athenaeum 7 March; More Letters of Charles Darwin i, 237]

Polydactylism in frogs [cf no 00652]

Distribution of Ascidians; respective genera in cold and tropical seas; thanks for lecture [?Hunterian]

Campbell recommended by Herbert Spencer to do experimental botanical work

Owen has contributed a statement on his brain doctrine to a theological pamphlet called Three Barriers [More Letters of Charles Darwin ii, 341]

Thanks for Huxley's Comparative Anatomy; Owen's article on "Oken" [in Encyclopaedia Britannica, edition 8] and the Archetype [More Letters of Charles Darwin i, 246]

Has written strongly to Lord Overstone and Lubbock. [Probably re Bishop Colenso and the Athenaeum Club. See LLOYD, Nos 1-3]

Sending specimens [of frogs] for Flower to investigate rudiments of sixth toe [cf letter to Flower in More Letters of Charles Darwin i, 251]

Huxley's article on Kolliker's criticism of the Origin [Natural History Review<.I> 1870 = The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 80] [Life and Letters of Charles Darwin iii, 29]

Mrs Darwin's opinion on Huxley's lectures; urges him to write a popular treatise on Zoology; asks for photograph [Life and Letters of Charles Darwin iii, 5]

In his opinion Huxley's [introduction to the Jermyn Street Museum] Catalogue is the best extant resume of Natural History [The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley iii, 125]; encloses comments on certain passages

Thanks for photograph; regrets no chance of popular book being written [Life and Letters of Charles Darwin iii, 6, part]

Thanks Huxley for Catalogue (not specified); wishes to send for his criticism manuscript on a hypothesis concerning variation, reversion, use and disuse, etc [Life and Letters of Charles Darwin iii, 43]

Thanks Huxley for undertaking to read his manuscript

Thanks Huxley for his opinion on his manuscript, which is that he is restating Buffon's views [Life and Letters of Charles Darwin iii, 44]

Has re-read Buffon and is struck with the coincidence of his views with it, but there is a fundamental difference; Pangenesis [Life and Letters of Charles Darwin iii, 45]

Recovering from illness; termination of the Reader; is still thinking of Pangenesis

Sends draft memorial to Admiralty praying that certain fossils allied to Toxodon in a spot near Magellan Strait be collected by a Survey Vessel about to visit the region; suggests names of geologists to whom it should be sent for signature. [cf Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 276, and below, No 00682]

Has received Haeckel's book [Generale Morphologie]; his opinion of it; has also received Huxley's Physiology; has improved chapter on Hybridism in the new [4th] edition of the Origin [More Letters of Charles Darwin i, 274]

Has given up hope of getting Haeckel's Generale Morphologie translated; is unable to make use of it in German; has sent manuscript of his new book [Variation under Domestication] to the printer; has not seen Duke [of Argyll's] new book [Reign of Law, 1867] [More Letters of Charles Darwin i, 277]

Is coming to London to consult Huxley about sending his youngest son [Horace] to the School of Mines; wishes to devise a better name than Pangenesis, and suggests alternatives [More Letters of Charles Darwin i, 281]

Has received School of Mines prospectus; thanks for Huxley's offer to read proofs of his "Essay on Man"; the orrugator supercilii in a crying child

Thanks Huxley for congratulations [on his Variation under Domestication]; awaits his verdict on Pangenesis; family news [More Letters of Charles Darwin i, 287]

Asks if Ray Society would undertake translation of Haeckel's book [Generale Morphologie]

Has come to Isle of Wight for his health; regrets unable to see Professor Kulm

Sends long letter on Comte's doctrine by Vernon Lushington

Had not realized that Lushington's letter was offensive to Huxley

Thanks for address [to Geological Society]; distinction between Evolutionists and Uniformitarians [Life and Letters of Charles Darwin iii,113]

Acknowledges Huxley's letter of 7 May [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 312] concerning the fossils from Magellan Strait [cf no 00671]

Asks for loan of books from which to engrave embryological figures

Haeckel, who is studying Calcareous Sponges, wants British specimens; asks to whom he can apply; Huxley's article on Positivism [Fortnightly Review July 1869]

James Orton has found the skull of a horse in a geological deposit at Quito, and has asked Darwin to submit it to Owen; as he has no communication with Owen, is sending the specimen to Huxley for examination

Kowalevsky (brother of the naturalist) who has translated one of Darwin's books into Russian, wants to attend one of Huxley's lectures; asks for ticket

Huxley's review of Haeckel's [Schopfungsgeschichte, in Academy]; comments on points discussed therein [Life and Letters of Charles Darwin iii, 119]

Huxley's forthcoming criticism of Mivart's Genesis of Species and the Quarterly Review review of Descent of Man [cf Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 369; Contemporary Review November 1871; The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 120; Life and Letters of Charles Darwin iii, 148]

Thanks Huxley for proofs of last-named [Life and Letters of Charles Darwin iii, 149, omitting long passage containing Darwin's opinion of Mivart]

Has sent Huxley's proofs to Hooker who is full of admiration; Hooker's vexation [at the Ayrton affair, cf Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker ii, 159]

Asks for information on affinities of Zeuglodon for new [6th] edition of Origin

Wishes to give "Marriage present" on Huxley's removal to new house [cf Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 384]

Supports movement for abolition of Prize Fellowships [More Letters of Charles Darwin ii, 442]

A sum of money placed at Huxley's disposal by a group of friends to enable him to take a holiday abroad [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 366; cf Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker ii, 183]

Is quite overcome by the generosity of his friends and asks for a list of them
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Profoundly affected by Huxley's reply

Sends list of Huxley's benefactors; death of Lady Lyell [cf Life, Letters and Journals of Sir Charles Lyell, Bart ii, 451, 467]; thanks for new book [Critiques and Addresses]; another review in Edinburgh Review

A delicate attention to Flower in ill-health [cf Sir William Henry Flower. A Personal Memoir 82]

Nothing can be done for Dohrn at present owing to the attitude of his father [see DOHRN, No 54]; Hooker elected President of the Royal Society; the manuscript for a new edition of Descent of Man

Plans to visit Huxley in London

Thanks Huxley for report of Séance; believes all such affairs are trickery [cf WEDGWOOD, H and DARWIN, G H] [Life and Letters of Charles Darwin iii, 187; cf Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 420]

Is correcting proofs of [2nd edition] of Descent of Man; asks Huxley for his manuscript on the brain and skulls to be incorporated; asks whether Foster has taken up the appeal for Dohrn. [Huxley's reply, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 418]

[To Michael Foster]. Proofs of printed appeal for Dohrn's Biological Station; suggested persons to be approached

[To Michael Foster]. Has received circulars; gifts from Lyell and Busk

Mivart and George Darwin. [See MIVART, Nos 2-4 and cf Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 425]

Appreciation of Huxley's article defending Darwin and his son George from Mivart's attack

The Vivisection Bill

Sends paper for Huxley's signature; note by the candidate, Francis Darwin. [For what he was a candidate is not stated]

Thanks Huxley for essay [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 440]; intends to write no more general treatises but confine himself to special studies such as climbing and insectivorous plants

Disgusted at Klein's evidence [before Vivisection Commission]; will attend to give evidence [cf Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 440]

Thanks for Elementary Biology [More Letters of Charles Darwin i, 362]

Is coming to London [to give evidence before Vivisection Committee], and will call on Huxley

Thanks Huxley for his generous remarks about him at Cambridge [see letter written to Leonard Huxley v, F 15]

Thanks for article on Evolution; Lamarck's change of opinion

Sympathy for illness of Huxley's daughter Marian; his election in Botany Section of French Academy

Mr Anthony Rich, their mutual benefactor [cf Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 286]

Thanks Huxley for gift of his Hume; his son George has visited Anthony Rich [More Letters of Charles Darwin i, 381]

Thanks for gift of book [Haeckel's Freedom in Science with a foreword by Huxley]. [More Letters of Charles Darwin i, 383]

Has been attacked by Butler; has written letter to Athenaeum (enclosed) but has been urged not to answer; submits it to Huxley's judgement

Has been consoled and amused by Huxley's answer

Regrets was unable to attend lecture; good press notices of it. ["The Coming of Age of the Origin of Species", Royal Institution 9 April, The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 227; Life and Letters of Charles Darwin iii, 240]
The original letter is dated 11 March, a manifest slip, for the lecture with which it deals was delivered on 9 April

Comments on Huxley's reply to no 00721 [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 12]; Natural Selection [More Letters of Charles Darwin i, 386]

Huxley's review of Challenger Reports in Nature; sends letter to the Editor [More Letters of Charles Darwin i, 388]; considers Wyville Thomson does not understand the principle of Natural Selection [ibid]

Sends draft of a memorial in favour of Alfred Russell Wallace, and list of names who might support it

Hooker's adherence to the memorial. [Written on back of letter from Hooker to Darwin dated Kew, 26 November 1880]

Is in town and will call

Will call on 9 December about Wallace memorial

Thinks that Wallace memorial should not be presented to Lord Aberdare; Owen would frustrate the whole plan

Spottiswoode, Allman, Flower and others have signed, and Duke of Argyll has written to Gladstone; suggests deputation

Has asked Hooker to sign memorial and send it on to Huxley

Returns Wallace Memorial; hopes to send "Classification Paper" soon [Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1880, 649]
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Success of Wallace Memorial; sends letter from Gladstone. See Darwin's letter to Wallace informing him that Gladstone has recommended him for Civil List Pension, Alfred Russell Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences ii, 313]; congratulates Huxley on appointment as Fisheries Inspector

Congratulates Darwin on success of Wallace Memorial; another attack by Butler
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

His son William wishes to become a Fellow of the Geological Society; asks Huxley to support him

Has signed certificate for William Darwin for Geological Society; history of the Fisheries appointment
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Announces that Anthony Rich has bequeathed his house and land to Huxley, and has desired him to communicate the news [cf Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 286]

Expresses his astonishment and gratification; has written to Rich
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Has heard from Rothenstein that Haeckel wishes to go on scientific expedition to Ceylon; his expected grant from Berlin Academy has been refused; has asked Lubbock whether Royal Society and British Association will aid him; asks Darwin's assistance. [See HAECKEL, No 21]

Has also heard from Haeckel on refusal of Berlin Academy and the opposition of Virchow; Royal Society will have no funds available till the spring, and Haeckel wishes to start in September; is on an official visit to Northumberland
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

His brother Erasmus having died and left Darwin a large fortune, he felt bound to inform Rich of the fact, so that he might reconsider his testamentary intentions, but Rich expressed his determination not to alter his will; he also expressed his intention of a further bequest to Huxley [More Letters of Charles Darwin ii, 445]

Huxley's reply re Rich; he will act in accordance with Darwin's wishes; his address to British Association at York
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Thanks for Science and Culture; Huxley's essay on "Automatism" [The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 199; Life and Letters of Charles Darwin iii, 251]

[His last letter]. Feels better; is under advice of Dr (Sir) Andrew Clark [Life and Letters of Charles Darwin iii, 358]

Fragments and notes

Fragments and notes

Fragments and notes

Fragments and notes

Thanks for gift of books

Death of Charles Darwin; his last illness

Asks Huxley to look out letters to him from Charles Darwin for Life and Letters of Charles Darwin

Asks leave to have copies of the letters made; a letter published by Haeckel without authority

Asks for personal recollections

Sends proof of a letter and asks leave to publish it

Bearing of Darwin's study of barnacles on the idea of the Origin; asks for a sketch of the reception of the Origin

Gratified to hear that Huxley will contribute a chapter on the Origin; Darwin's sketch written in 1844

Is sending the 1844 manuscript

Sends proofs which may be useful when Huxley begins writing

Pleased that Huxley has started on his chapter; the 1844 sketch and the principle of Divergence

Would like to know progress of Huxley's chapter

Sends proof of portion dealing with Cirripedes

Sends proofs; indicates where Huxley's chapter will fit in

Sends more proofs

Thanks Huxley for the manuscript of his chapter; Divergence; a passage in the 1844 sketch

Is expunging a letter from Galton and another from Bunbury

Sends proof of a letter from Huxley and asks permission to use it

Sends more proofs

Will call for the 1844 manuscript personally

More proofs; notes on Von Baer and Pictet; regrets he has no account of the Oxford meeting of 1860; postscript on Gentians

Sends proofs of the account of the 1860 meeting; asks if Lyell's account of Huxley's speech is preferable to that of Boyd Dawkins

Thanks for a further batch of letters; controversy between Stokes and Copley; Sabine's address

On the reception of the Origin in Germany

Sends proofs of botanical chapters; tyranny in Germany

Further proofs

Correction of proofs

Wishes Huxley to expunge a passage about Owen; the review in the Edinburgh said to have been written by Carter Blake on data supplied by Owen

Asks leave to publish the report of the séance; disgust at Samuel Butler's attack on Darwin in Luck or Cunning (London, 1886)

Will ask his uncle [Wedgwood] about publishing the séance; hopes Huxley will attack Butler; Wallace's review of Descent of Man

Denies statement about Darwin's death-bed "conversion". [See sv DEDUCHSON]

Will have the book ready in June, but the publisher is against publishing before October; asks Huxley's opinion

Pleased to hear of Huxley's Obituary Notice of Darwin; thinks it a pity to "bury it" in Proceedings of the Royal Society

Sends much personal information for Huxley's use in the Obituary of Darwin

Gratification with Huxley's Obituary Notice

His connection with W P Ball [qv]; his book published on recommendation of Romanes and Poulton

Would be glad to see letters [from Huxley to Darwin]; death of Victor Carus

Hooker an eye-witness of the scene in Oxford in 1860

Letters to Huxley to be published in Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley and More Letters of Charles Darwin; no mention to be made of Butler

Sends more letters from Huxley to his father. [These are the letters in Huxley Papers, Vol IX, folios 198-216]

Congratulations on Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

Sends Butler's pamphlet attacking Darwin

Séance arranged at house of Hensleigh Wedgwood

Huxley to attend the séance incognito

Huxley's presence became known; his account of the affair; comments upon it

Huxley's reply to Darwin's critics in Quarterly Review [November 1871 = The Collected Essays of Thomas Henry Huxley ii,120]

The pall-bearers at Darwin's funeral; thinks that A R Wallace should be one. [cf Life and Letters of Charles Darwin iii, 361]

Certain statements in the Introductory Science Primer are erroneous

Sends etching of Charles Darwin's study as a present from the family [Etching by A H Haig, 1882]

Congratulations on Huxley's election as President of the Royal Society

The professorship of Physics at South Kensington; Cambridge candidates

Lord Salisbury's address at the British Association at Oxford

Informing Huxley that a legacy has been left to him under Charles Darwin's will [signed also by G H Darwin]

Sending cheque for legacy [signed also by G H Darwin]

The Darwin Memorial meeting; hopes the portrait will not be placed in Woolner's hands

Francis Darwin uncertain whether to include in Life and Letters of Charles Darwin any mention of "the Mr Rich incident" and asks Huxley's advice. [cf Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley ii, 286]

The Darwin Celebrations at Cambridge

Thanks Huxley for his appreciation of his Etudes Synthetiques [de Geologie experimentale, 1879]
Letter written in French

Regrets that he cannot leave Paris to receive personally the medal awarded to him [Wollaston Medal, Geological Society, 1880]
Letter written in French

Is preparing a paper on "Where are we?" in Space, Science, Politics, Commerce, Sociology and Theology. Asks Huxley to state his views on these subjects

"Any adequate reply to your enquiry would be of the nature of a treatise, and that I regret I cannot undertake to write"
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

Appreciates Huxley's reference to his book The Hibbert Lectures, 1881]; has misunderstood the origin of the term 'agnostic'

Considers Huxley too hard on the clergy. Is sending a volume of sermons recognizing scientific discoveries

Recommends a house for holidays

Thanks for Physiology; sends notes and suggestions thereon; asks for Huxley's photograph

Encloses extract of letter from J R Green on the Huxley-Wilberforce episode at Oxford in 1860. [cf Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 185; Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker i, 524; Life and Letters of Charles Darwin ii, 322]

Throw-sticks used by Arctic peoples

Sends J R Green's account of the 1860 meeting on the occasion of that of 1894 [British Association at Oxford]

[To Sir C Lyell]. Working on Devonian plants; has sent a paper on them for Geological Society; has mounted in plaster all his fossil reptiles; has discovered errors in Owen's paper and figures [Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London xviii, 238 and plates ix, x]; intends to submit his corrections to Huxley. [cf LYELL, No 48]

[To Lyell]. Many of Owen's drawings not made from Dawson's specimens but copied from Smith's drawings sent in 1859; correction of mistakes means further errata

[To Lyell]. Encloses proof plates of reptiles from Nova Scotia coal deposits with manuscript explanation to be shown to Huxley; has sent duplicates of them to Owen

Sends new edition of his Acadian Geology and hopes that Huxley will mention it in his Presidential Address to the Geological Society

Asks for Huxley's autograph

The writer (editor of Toronto Mail) quotes a statement by Rev Mr Mutch of Toronto that Darwin recanted on his death-bed and asks Huxley if the report be true

Has the best authority [see DARWIN, Sir Francis, no 00778] for informing him that the statement is false and without foundation

Congratulates Huxley on his election as President of the Royal Society

The Home Rule question; sends his book [England's Case against Home Rule, 1886]

Thanks for sending papers (not specified)

Joins with Dr McCosh in thanks for Huxley's letter and enclosure (not specified). Hopes their book will bring Huxley's views into prominence
[James McCosh, DD (1811-1894) was at this time Professor of Logic at Queens' College Belfast]

Price of drawings for plates in Huxley's paper in Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy [xxiv, 351]

"Archaic Protestantism" amongst the Boers. Encloses press cuttings

A University Extension Manual and its definition of Theology

Has packed the fossils from Jarrow Colliery and will bring them in his own cart to Professor Wright. [Dobbs was agent for the Colliery] [See WRIGHT, E P, Nos 14 et seq]

Chrysochloris (the Cape Mole), stated by Huxley on the authority of Peters (Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1880, 656) to be the only Eutherian mammal to have no teats, is proved by Dobson to have them, both male and female

Acknowledgement of cheque

Disposition of certain jewellery

Same subject as 00833; congratulates Huxley on the Copley Medal

Invitation to stay and directions for the journey [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 290]
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Felicitations on his visit; exchange of books [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 291]
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

A vacant Museum appointment in Calcutta; dissuades Dohrn from applying for it; family news; criticism of Kolliker [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 303]
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Personal news; is working on a theory of decadence; has bought Comte's Philosophie Positive; Huxley's proposed resignation of Hunterian Professorship
Letter written in German

Dohrn's mistaken ideas on the Arthropoda; the family going to Littlehampton; invitation
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

On the structure of Amphidotus
Letter written in German

Personal news; has had an invitation to Yarmouth by Vogt and intends to return through France
Letter written in German

News of a mutual friend; personal news
Letter written in German

Pressure of work has prevented letter-writing; Goethe's aphorisms; has received his work on Arthropoda; will be President of British Association at Liverpool in September [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 326]
Original letter, signed, by Huxley; postscript by Mrs Huxley

Dohrn's plan for establishing Biological Stations; the Brighton Aquarium; Mikluko-Maclay visiting England [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 332]
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Invitation to British Association extended also to Haeckel and Gegenbaur; the Franco-German war [Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley i, 334]
Original letter, signed, by Huxley

Will be unable to come to Liverpool owing to military service
Letter written in German