Quekett, J. T. (1815–61)
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- … John Thomas Quekett 1815–61 Histologist and microscopist. Appointed assistant conservator …
- … Museum Royal College of Surgeons Microscopical Society London Histologist microscopist …
Klein, E. E. (1844–1925)
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- … Edward Emanuel Klein 1844–1925 Slavonian-born histologist and bacteriologist. MD, Vienna. …
Deiters, O. F. K. (1834–63)
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- … Deiters 1834–63 German anatomist and histologist. After early training in Bonn, was an …
Rouget, C. M. B. (1824–1904)
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- … Rouget 1824–1904 French physiologist and histologist. Professor of physiology, University …
Schultze, M. J. S. (1825–74)
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- … Archiv für mikroskopische Anatomie und Entwicklungsmechanik German anatomist histologist …
Tomes, John (1815–95)
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- … Press. 2004. 19,22 FRS Dental surgeon histologist inventor of dental instruments …
Barry, Martin (1802–55)
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- … 4,6 FRS London Paris Erlangen Berlin Edinburgh Britain Germany Embryologist histologist …
From Francis Darwin [1873]
Summary
Klein says water ought to be changed daily. Asks to tell G Revalenta shop shut. Klein reports discovery about toads’ ova does not bear on pangenesis.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 11 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8713F |
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- … Klein was a bacteriologist and histologist. The experiment has not been identified. Jim …
To J. D. Hooker 22 October 1881
Summary
Visiting his son Horace.
Studying action of carbonate of ammonia. Finds similar looking Euphorbia root cells react differently.
Intrigued by Dischidia rafflesiana, whose pitchers manufacture manure-water that nourishes adventitious roots. Does JDH know histologist for detailed study?
Julius von Wiesner’s criticism of Movement in plants "vivisects" CD in "a most courteous but awful manner" [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 22 Oct 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 538–41 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13420 |
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- … adventitious roots. Does JDH know histologist for detailed study? Julius von Wiesner’s …
From Francis Galton 21 November 1871
Summary
Asks that the rabbits CD has kept be sent to him; will continue [transfusion] experiments on rats, but using larger [surgical] connection.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Nov 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A35–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8080 |
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- … experiments. Edward Emmanuel Klein was a histologist at the Brown Sanitary Animal …
From J. D. Hooker [18 April 1876]
Summary
JDH has heard from Asa Gray, who approves of the botany primer [Botany (1876)].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [18 Apr 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 49–50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10282 |
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- … and had suggested that a ‘vegetable histologist’ review the paper (see Correspondence vol. …
To J. D. Hooker 1 December [1875]
Summary
Comments on R. L. Tait’s claimed isolation of digestive ferments from Nepenthes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 1 Dec [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 399–400 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10283 |
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- … the referee ought to be a vegetable histologist, & I know nothing of subject. — I shall at …
To Francis Darwin 15 August [1873]
Summary
Observations on bees’ biting holes in Lathyrus.
Suggests an experiment FD could carry out with Drosera.
CD is working on Mimosa, and "everything has turned out as perversely as possible".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Aug [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9014 |
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- … raw meat on a leaf, & as you are a great histologist, compare after several days its state …
From Ernst Haeckel 10 August 1864
Summary
Sends photographs of himself and his late wife [Anna Sethe]. Describes death of his wife.
Plans trip to the Alps.
Thanks CD for biographical information about himself.
Mentions Goethe as early evolutionist.
Cites Kant as early supporter of epigenesis.
Mentions criticism of CD’s theory by R. A. von Kölliker ["Über die Darwin’sche Schöpfungstheorie", Z. Wiss. Zool. 14 (1864): 174–86].
| Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Aug 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 38 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4586 |
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- … of Würzburg, who is well known as a histologist, in his Zeitschrift für wiss. Zoolog. …
From Ernst Haeckel 26 October 1864
Summary
Thanks CD for notes concerning the development of his ideas about the origin of species. Says August Schleicher and Carl Gegenbaur also interested.
Names new supporters of CD’s theory, including Max Schultze, Rudolf Leuckart, and Alexander Braun. Zoologists have been more interested than botanists.
He is writing a general work on the relationships among animals [Generelle Morphologie der Organismen (1866)].
Comments on Fritz Müller’s Für Darwin [1864].
Gegenbaur is revising his Grundzüge der vergleichenden Anatomie [2d ed. (1870)] to accord with evolution.
Thanks CD for copy of book on balanids [Living Cirripedia, vol. 2].
| Author: | Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Oct 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 39 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4646 |
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- … Max Schultze in Bonn, our foremost histologist, and Prof. Leuckart in Giessen, one of the …
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| Haeckel, Ernst | (2) |
| Galton, Francis | (1) |
electrocution in Commentary
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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- … electrocution . . . His son Francis was assisting the histologist Edward Emanuel Klein at the …
