From the Naples Zoological Station 12 February 1879
Summary
Seventieth birthday greetings.
| Author: | Naples Zoological Station |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11874 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Naples Zoological Station Darwin, C. R. …
- … From the Naples Zoological Station 12 February 1879 …
- … DAR 172: 2 Naples Zoological Station Naples 12 Feb 1879 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Beckenham Kent Engla The Zoological Stations of Naples and the naturalists diferent …
Mayer, Paul (1848–1923)
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- … Haeckel. Assistant at the Naples Zoological Station, 1877. While at Naples, developed new …
- … 1953–. Haeckel, E. P. A. Naples Zoological Station Naples German zoologist microscopist 29 …
To A. G. Dew-Smith 19 January [1875]
Summary
Discusses subscriptions for the Naples Zoological Station.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albert George Dew-Smith |
| Date: | 19 Jan [1875] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.462) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9825 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Discusses subscriptions for the Naples Zoological Station. …
- … for funds for Anton Dohrn’s Zoological Station at Naples. For the final version of the …
- … letter with an account of the Zoological Station at Naples. Will you tell D r Foster that …
From Michael Foster [before 9 May 1874]
Summary
Encloses a report on state of appeal for Naples Zoological Station.
| Author: | Michael Foster |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 9 May 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 167 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9448 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Encloses a report on state of appeal for Naples Zoological Station. …
- … in the completion of the zoological station at Naples (see Circular to various scientific …
- … appealing for funds for the zoological station at Naples. For a later, more complete, copy …
From F. M. Balfour [20 March – 14 April 1875]
Summary
Gives Carl Claus’s identifications of the organisms sent by CD.
| Author: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [20 Mar – 14 Apr 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 149 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9203 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 149 Francis Maitland Balfour Naples Zoological Station [20 Mar – 14 Apr 1875] Charles …
- … Friedrich Claus , who visited the Naples zoological station from 20 March until 14 April …
From Michael Foster 17 June [1874]
Summary
Encloses a report on current status of the appeal for Naples Zoological Station.
Shark embryology.
| Author: | Michael Foster |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 June [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 166 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9498 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … a report on current status of the appeal for Naples Zoological Station. Shark embryology. …
- … Co. ), to the account of The Naples Zoological Station Fund. GEO. J. ALLMAN, F.R.S. , …
- … researchers to work at the Naples Zoological Station ; he had been there since earlier in …
- … financial difficulties of the Zoological Station at Naples. Francis Maitland Balfour was …
- … Zoological Station that is reproduced here as an enclosure. Balfour and Albert George Dew-Smith had gone to Naples …
Naples Zoological Station
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- … Naples Zoological Station Founded in 1872 by Anton Dohrn. First building completed, 1873; …
- … Dohrn, Anton. 1873. The Zoological Station at Naples. Nature , 29 May 1873, p. 81. Kuhn, …
- … Stazione Zoologica di Napoli. 27 Zoological Station at Naples Stazione Zoologica di Napoli …
Groeben, Christiane. 1985b. Anton Dohrn—the statesman of Darwinism: to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the death of Anton Dohrn. Biological Bulletin 168 (Supplement: The Naples Zoological Station and the Marine Biological Laboratory: one hundred years of biology): 4–24.
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- … Bulletin 168 (Supplement: The Naples Zoological Station and the Marine Biological …
From Michael Foster 7 April [1874]
Summary
Is organising an appeal for the Naples Zoological Station.
| Author: | Michael Foster |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Apr [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 165 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9396 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Is organising an appeal for the Naples Zoological Station. …
- … had been doing research at the Zoological Station at Naples since late 1873 (see Heuss …
To G. J. Romanes 14 September [1879]
Summary
Thanks GJR for gift of game.
Contributes to [Naples] Zoological Station.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 14 Sept [1879] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.567) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12229 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Thanks GJR for gift of game. Contributes to [Naples] Zoological Station. …
Dohrn, Anton (1840–1909)
Matches: 2 hits
- … 14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,27,28,29,30 Naples Zoological Station Naples German …
- … he habilitated in 1868. Founded the Zoological Station at Naples, built between 1872 and …
From F. M. Balfour 11 November 1873
Summary
Suggests raising money to help Anton Dohrn complete the Naples Zoological Station, which is in danger of remaining unfinished.
| Author: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Nov 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9138 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … help Anton Dohrn complete the Naples Zoological Station, which is in danger of remaining …
- … For more on the history of the Zoological Station at Naples, see Heuss 1991 . Huxley had …
- … be unable to complete the zoological station at Naples. Professor Huxley has told Foster …
To Anton Dohrn 13 February 1874
Summary
Thanks for birthday greetings.
Comments on work at Naples Zoological Station. F. M. Balfour to visit Naples. Would like to send third son [Francis Darwin] to learn art of observing marine animals.
Health indifferent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Date: | 13 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 711) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9289 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … greetings. Comments on work at Naples Zoological Station. F. M. Balfour to visit Naples. …
- … him a happy birthday from the Naples Zoological Station (see telegram from Anton Dohrn , …
From T. H. Huxley to Anton Dohrn 15 November 1873
Summary
THH sends to AD a draft, prepared by himself and CD, of a statement for a subscription fund to assist AD’s Naples Zoological Station.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Date: | 15 Nov 1873 |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 13: 249) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9412 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … and CD, of a statement for a subscription fund to assist AD’s Naples Zoological Station. …
- … financial difficulties of the Zoological Station at Naples, see the letter from F. M. …
- … Royal Society to be sent to the Zoological Station at Naples for its library ( letter from …
- … r . Anton Dohrn, is building a Zoological Station at Naples, not as a private speculation …
- … after due deliberation that a Zoological Station at Naples founded and carried on in …
To John Lubbock, P. L. Sclater, Charles Lyell, W. B. Carpenter, and Michael Foster [7 April 1874]
Summary
Circular requesting recipients to sign an enclosed [missing] statement [relating to appeal for Naples Zoological Station] if they approve of it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury; Philip Lutley Sclater; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; William Benjamin Carpenter; Michael Foster |
| Date: | [7 Apr 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: C52–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9384 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … statement [relating to appeal for Naples Zoological Station] if they approve of it. …
- … The enclosure, an appeal for the Zoological Station at Naples, has not been found; see, …
To G. H. Darwin [17 November 1873]
Summary
Sorry to hear of GHD’s poor health – he could have pleasant society at Cambridge if he were stronger.
Contributes £75 [to a fund for Naples Zoological Station] "if the affair goes on after we hear from Dohrn".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | [17 Nov 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9148 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Contributes £75 [to a fund for Naples Zoological Station] "if the affair goes on after we …
- … help Anton Dohrn complete the Zoological Station at Naples (see letter to G. H. Darwin, …
From J. V. Carus 26 February 1877
Summary
Is unconvinced that correction in Cross and self-fertilisation requested by CD [see 10852] should be made. Asks CD to reconsider.
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Feb 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 107 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10870 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 161: 107 Julius Victor Carus Zoological Station, Naples 26 Feb 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Naples, | Zoological Station, Febr 26. 1877 My dear Sir, Of course I shall correct the “ …
To Anton Dohrn 24 August [1872]
Summary
Rejoices at success [of Naples Zoological Station]. Will send complete set of his books to the library.
If AD is interested, he will send a copy of Expression when it comes out.
Invites AD to visit Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Date: | 24 Aug [1872] |
| Classmark: | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 700 & 700a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8486 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Rejoices at success [of Naples Zoological Station]. Will send complete set of his books to …
- … On Dohrn’s efforts to establish a zoological station at Naples, see the letter from Anton …
From Anton Dohrn 9 February 1882
Summary
Birthday congratulations from the Naples Zoological Station. A new physiological department will be constructed. Describes work in progress at the Station.
Sends his paper on teleosteans.
Heard R. Owen read a paper at York [meeting of BAAS]. Owen had views similar to AD’s, but seemed not to be aware of work of others.
| Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Feb 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 222 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13673 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … congratulations from the Naples Zoological Station. A new physiological department will be …
- … Bulletin 168 (Supplement: The Naples Zoological Station and the Marine Biological …
- … Abschnitte. Publication of the Zoological Station of Naples. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann. …
From Anton Dohrn 27 January 1873
Summary
The Naples Zoological Station and its library are growing fast. His life is a constant battle with the municipality, but has managed to make a little progress on vertebrate ancestry and morphology. His views get further away from what is generally accepted.
| Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Jan 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 212 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8750 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … The Naples Zoological Station and its library are growing fast. His life is a constant …
- … 1985–. Dohrn, Anton. 1873. The Zoological Station at Naples. Nature , 29 May 1873, p. 81. …
- … his books for the library of the zoological station at Naples that Dohrn had founded (see …
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| Huxley, T. H. | (5) |
| Foster, Michael | (4) |
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| Foster, Michael | (4) |
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| Darwin, G. H. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (74) |
| Dohrn, Anton | (29) |
| Carus, J. V. | (8) |
| Foster, Michael | (8) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (7) |
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Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?
Summary
Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…
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- … Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of …
