To Michael Foster 29 [June 1871]
Summary
Thanks him for curare.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Michael Foster |
| Date: | 29 [June 1871] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.401) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7837 |
To Michael Foster 6 June [1871]
Summary
Comments on MF’s "little essay" [see 7800].
Invites him to visit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Michael Foster |
| Date: | 6 June [1871] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.419) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7803 |
To [W. W. Baxter?] [early July 1871]
Summary
Orders nitrate of ammonia for experiment on plants.
Are measuring glasses accurate?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | [early July 1871] |
| Classmark: | The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9524 |
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 |
To Francis Darwin 6 June [1871]
Summary
Thanks for FD’s help. CD cannot conceive what Mivart means by "the identity between eyes of Cephalopods and Vertebrata".
Has invited Michael Foster to Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 6 June [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7806 |
To Michael Foster 9 May [1874]
Summary
CD is rather disappointed by the money raised for Dohrn. Had hoped for £700–800.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Michael Foster |
| Date: | 9 May [1874] |
| Classmark: | Michael Silverman (dealer) (January 2001) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9452 |
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 |
To Henry Willett 19 April [1874]
Summary
F. M. Balfour is in Naples. Comments on rate at which sea eats back the land, as given in early editions of Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Willett |
| Date: | 19 Apr [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 359 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9420 |
To W. W. Baxter 8 August [1871]
Summary
Asks WWB to send 8 grains of acetate of strychnine by post.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | 8 Aug [1871] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 26) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7900 |
To William Crookes 9 May [1874]
Summary
Regrets he cannot comply with request because of his work and poor health.
Delighted to have seen correspondent’s "wonderful experiment" at Royal Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Crookes |
| Date: | 9 May [1874] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9449 |
To Michael Foster 26 June [1871]
Summary
Invites MF to visit.
Asks where he can obtain curare for plant experiment.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Michael Foster |
| Date: | 26 June [1871] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.400) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7832 |
To Anton Dohrn 16 April and 9 August 1874
Summary
Has written to J. Murray to have account of the Zoological Station inserted in the Murray guidebook.
The circular about the Station has been printed; some have already signed.
Received R. Kossman’s paper on Anelasma ["Untersuchungen über die durch Parasitismus hervorgerufenen Umbildungen in der Familie der Pedunculata", Verh. Phys.-med. Ges. Würz. N. F. 5 (1874): 129–57]. The case is the most interesting ever recorded of gradation, i.e., from an animal with a stomach to one with roots like a plant.
Delighted he will examine the complemental males of Scalpellum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Date: | 16 Apr and 9 Aug 1874 |
| Classmark: | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 702) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9414 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 30 April [1876]
Summary
Suggests JSBS’s new machine for observing arterial action be used to test CD’s hypothesis that blushing is caused by thinking intensely about a part of the body and thus releasing the arteries.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 30 Apr [1876] |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-01) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10485 |
To John Lubbock 8 April [1874]
Summary
Encloses a statement and circular he has been asked to send to JL.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 8 Apr [1874] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8283 |
To T. H. Huxley 28 April 1873
Summary
Lady Lyell’s death.
Sends names of donors of gift to THH.
The Edinburgh Review has a critical article against CD, THH, Tyndall, and H. Spencer [see 8935]. Thinks Forbes reference not worth answering.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 28 Apr 1873 |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 299) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8887 |
To Lawson Tait 24 April 1876
Summary
The Royal Society have returned RLT’s Nepenthes paper and will not have it read because of unfavourable reports from referees.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Date: | 24 Apr 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 84 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10470 |
To John Tyndall 18 April [1873]
Summary
The Huxley fund amounts to £1955. CD trembles about THH’s answer.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Tyndall |
| Date: | 18 Apr [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.8: 15 (EH 88205953) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8867 |
To Michael Foster 25 April [1874]
Summary
Has received circulars, and contributions from Lyell and George Busk [for Naples biological station].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Michael Foster |
| Date: | 25 Apr [1874] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 4: 71) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9427 |
To Lawson Tait 5 May 1876
Summary
CD sends the gist of an extremely negative report from the [Royal Society’s] physiological referee on the value of RLT’s modifications of Brücke’s process for isolating pepsin [see 10470].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Date: | 5 May 1876 |
| Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10497 |
To J. D. Hooker 16 March [1879]
Summary
Frank’s reasons for not accepting the Cambridge Examinership.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 16 Mar [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 481–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11939 |
| letter | (32) |
| Foster, Michael | (7) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
| Baxter, W. W. | (2) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (2) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (32) |
| Foster, Michael | (7) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
| Baxter, W. W. | (2) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (2) |
