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From Michael Foster   20 September 1871

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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: 2 hits

  • … CD’s letter has not been found, but see the letter to Michael Foster, 29 [June 1871] . …
  • Michael Foster, 26 June [1871] and n.  4. Foster was praelector in physiology at Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1870. He established practical courses in biology and physiology, and became the first university professor of physiology in 1883 ( ODNB ). See letter

From Michael Foster   25 June 1871

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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: 2 hits

  • … Mercy Elizabeth Foster . See letter from Michael Foster, 4 June [1871] . Bickley is about …
  • … See letter to Michael Foster, 6 June [1871] . Foster may refer to the New Oxford and …

From Michael Foster   30 January 1875

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Account of the fund to help Anton Dohrn’s zoological station at Naples.

Author:  Michael Foster
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  30 Jan 1875
Classmark:  DAR 162: 215/1
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9835F

Matches: 2 hits

  • … Naples, see Correspondence vol.  22, letters from Michael Foster , 7 April [1874] and 17  …
  • … letters to Michael Foster , 23 April [1874] and 9 May [1874] . See also letter from A.   …

From Michael Foster   [26 June 1871]

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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

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From Michael Foster   [before 9 May 1874]

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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: 2 hits

  • … between this letter and the letter to Michael Foster, 9 May [1874] . Foster’s letter is …
  • Foster had prepared a printed appeal to assist Anton Dohrn in the completion of the zoological station at Naples (see Circular to various scientific men, [7 April 1874], and letter to Michael

From Michael Foster   4 June [1871]

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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

Matches: 1 hit

  • … between this letter and the letter to Michael Foster, 16 April 1871 . For CD’s questions, …
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