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Series 1Q - Scientific and general correspondence: QUATREFAGES DE BREAU - QUIN
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Date Rangec. 1845 - c. 1895
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1  Scientific and general correspondence c. 1845 - c. 1895

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• Letter to T H Huxley from QUATREFAGES DE BREAU, Jean Louis Armand de, FMRS (1810-1892), 30 April 1859
Sent from Paris

Thanks Huxley for mention of him in his works; at the time of his candidature for the Academie [des Science] he thought himself unpopular in England; discussion on Protula dysteri and Noctiluca
Written in French

 Creator Huxley, Thomas Henry
Control 24.264
Date range 30 April 1859
Formats General Correspondence
Inventory Identifier 24.264 Box Number 24 Series 1q
• Letter to T H Huxley from QUATREFAGES DE BREAU, Jean Louis Armand de, FMRS (1810-1892), 12 February 1860
Sent from Paris

Is sending his memoir on silkworms, and investigation of a disease which caused great economic loss
Written in French

 Creator Huxley, Thomas Henry
Control 24.266
Date range 12 February 1860
Formats General Correspondence
Inventory Identifier 24.266 Box Number 24 Series 1q
• Letter to T H Huxley from QUATREFAGES DE BREAU, Jean Louis Armand de, FMRS (1810-1892), 24 February 1860
Sent from Paris

Pre-occupation with his work on Silkworms for the Companie Sericicole; his opinion of the Origin of Species, some of the ideas of which he applied in 1856 to the races of Man; thinks Darwin pushes his theories too far [cf Life and Letters of Charles Darwin ii, 235]
Written in French

 Creator Huxley, Thomas Henry
Control 24.267
Date range 24 February 1860
Formats General Correspondence
Inventory Identifier 24.267 Box Number 24 Series 1q
• Letter to T H Huxley from QUATREFAGES DE BREAU, Jean Louis Armand de, FMRS (1810-1892), [1863]
Sent from [Paris]

Thanks for Man's Place; follows Linnaeus rather than Cuvier on the zoological affinities of Man; working on the jaw from Abbeville
Written in French

 Creator Huxley, Thomas Henry
Control 24.269
Date range 1863
Formats General Correspondence
Inventory Identifier 24.269 Box Number 24 Series 1q
• Letter to T H Huxley from QUATREFAGES DE BREAU, Jean Louis Armand de, FMRS (1810-1892), 17 June 1864
Sent from Paris

Is delivering his course on the unity of the human species, which absorbs all his time; thanks for and eulogy of Huxley's new book [Elements of Comparative Anatomy]
Written in French

 Creator Huxley, Thomas Henry
Control 24.271
Date range 17 June 1864
Formats General Correspondence
Inventory Identifier 24.271 Box Number 24 Series 1q
• Letter to T H Huxley from QUATREFAGES DE BREAU, Jean Louis Armand de, FMRS (1810-1892), 1 July 1866
Sent from Paris

Regrets will be unable to attend meeting [of British Association at Nottingham] as he will be in Alsace; his work on Annelids nearly ready; greetings to Busk, Prestwich, Lubbock, Evans and Carpenter
Written in French

 Creator Huxley, Thomas Henry
Control 24.273
Date range 1 July 1866
Formats General Correspondence
Inventory Identifier 24.273 Box Number 24 Series 1q
• Letter to T H Huxley from QUATREFAGES DE BREAU, Jean Louis Armand de, FMRS (1810-1892), 4 April 1879
Sent from Paris

Asks for information as to two negroid skulls examined by Huxley for his Crania Ethnica
Written in French

 Creator Huxley, Thomas Henry
Control 24.275
Date range 4 April 1879
Formats General Correspondence
Inventory Identifier 24.275 Box Number 24 Series 1q
• Letter to T H Huxley from QUATREFAGES DE BREAU, Jean Louis Armand de, FMRS (1810-1892), 28 April 1879
Sent from Paris

Is highly honoured by his election as Foreign Member of the Royal Society and thanks all who have supported him
Written in French

 Creator Huxley, Thomas Henry
Control 24.276
Date range 28 April 1879
Formats General Correspondence
Inventory Identifier 24.276 Box Number 24 Series 1q
• Letter from T H Huxley to QUIN, Anne, Countess of Dunraven, 2nd wife and widow of the 3rd Earl (Died 1917), [21 November 1878]
Sent from [London]

A Count Victor de Vesci [Veysey] whom Huxley has reason to suspect, has called upon him and mentioned Lady Dunraven; believes that both Lady Dunraven and himself are victims of an audacious imposture
Draft or copy letter by Huxley

 Creator Huxley, Thomas Henry
Control 24.278
Date range 21 November 1878
Formats General Correspondence
Inventory Identifier 24.278 Box Number 24 Series 1q
• Letter to T H Huxley from QUIN, Anne, Countess of Dunraven, 2nd wife and widow of the 3rd Earl (Died 1917), 22 November [1878]
Sent from Florence, Italy

The "Count" has called upon her and professed long friendship with Huxley; on her return to London she will be pleased to meet Huxley and have the denouement [See HOOKER, J D, No 221; WEBSTER, C, No 1; and VEYSEY, V de]

 Creator Huxley, Thomas Henry
Control 24.279
Date range 22 November 1878
Formats General Correspondence
Inventory Identifier 24.279 Box Number 24 Series 1q
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