From Michael Foster 20 September 1871
Summary
Offers his services for the future.
Working hard at establishing physiology at Cambridge.
| Author: | Michael Foster |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 164 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7957 |
Matches: 4 hits
From Michael Foster 25 June 1871
Summary
Regrets he cannot get to Queen Anne Street, but intends to come to Down.
| Author: | Michael Foster |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 June 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 163 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7831 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From Michael Foster 25 June 1871 …
- … DAR 164: 163 Michael Foster Blackheath 25 June 1871 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Foster . See letter from Michael Foster, 4 June [1871] . Bickley is about four miles north …
- … See letter to Michael Foster, 6 June [1871] . Foster may refer to the New Oxford and …
- … 24 to 30 June 1871 (see ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). Foster refers to Michael George Foster …
From Michael Foster [26 June 1871]
Summary
Has arranged to send CD a bottle of urari [curare]. Describes its effect with strychnine.
| Author: | Michael Foster |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [26 June 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 141–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7834 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From Michael Foster [26 June 1871] …
- … DAR 58.1: 141–2 Michael Foster Blackheath [26 June 1871] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … letter and the letters to Michael Foster , 26 June [1871] and 29 [June 1871] . In 1871, …
- … Roman numeral). See letter to Michael Foster, 26 June [1871] and n. 4. ‘Strychnia’ is a …
- … on Drosera rotundifolia (see letter to Michael Foster, 26 June [1871] and n. 4). …
From Michael Foster 4 June [1871]
Summary
Sends answers to CD’s queries on expression.
| Author: | Michael Foster |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 June [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 162, DAR 195.1: 51 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7800 |
From G. H. Darwin 18 October 1874
Summary
Has been invited to lecture at the Royal Institution by Spottiswoode. Discusses subjects he might deal with and his reasons for attempting it.
Tells of a complicated case of a double sale of a living.
Huxley says F. M. Balfour passed brilliantly.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Oct 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 41 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9683 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1871, and was in charge of the development of the Cavendish Laboratory, which opened in 1874. George refers to George Chaworth Musters’s book At home with the Patagonians ( Musters 1871 ). Francis Maitland Balfour had been at the Zoological Station in Naples earlier in the year (see letter from Michael Foster, …
Document type
| letter | (5) |
Author
| Foster, Michael | (4) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Foster, Michael | (4) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
