To T. H. Huxley 28 March [1874]
Summary
Asks for THH’s description of brain and skull [of man and apes] for 2d ed. of Descent [supplement to ch. 7].
Asks about Dohrn affair and contributions for Naples station. Doubts subscriptions will be successful.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 28 Mar [1874] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 293) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9376 |
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 |
To Michael Foster 23 April [1874]
Summary
Approves of proof [of subscription appeal for Dohrn’s Naples station]. Suggests names.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Michael Foster |
| Date: | 23 Apr [1874] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 4: 69) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9425 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 9 April 1881
Summary
About Francis Darwin’s application for election to [Royal] Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 9 Apr 1881 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 218–19) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13109 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 December 1880
Summary
Responds, with some embarrassment, to JDH’s caution on Frank’s F.R.S. prospects.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 1 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 502–3 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12880 |
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 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 15 and 19 April [1875]
Summary
Has written to Lord Derby about the vivisection issue and urged him to speak to the proper members of the Cabinet to prevent "hasty legislation versus science". CD offered to send the sketch of the bill that has been drafted or a small deputation to wait on any member of the Cabinet. Lubbock does not think the petition should be presented as he feels sure that nothing will be done this session.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 15 and 19 Apr 1875 |
| Classmark: | University of the Witwatersrand, Historical Papers Research Archive (A237f, letters to Sir John Burdon Sanderson) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9934 |
From P. H. Pye-Smith 19 December 1881
Summary
Urges CD to write on vivisection for Nineteenth Century or suggest a competent scientific author. Forming an association to forward interests of vivisectionists.
| Author: | Philip Henry Pye-Smith |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Dec 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 82 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13566 |
From T. H. Huxley 6 March 1874
Summary
Has heard from Dohrn about his financial problems. Asks CD’s advice on what to do.
THH’s article in Contemporary Review ["Universities: actual and ideal" (1874), Collected essays, vol. 3 (1894)].
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Mar 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 193–4; Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (Huxley: 13.256, 13.258) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9336 |
From F. M. Balfour [14] December [1876]
Summary
Lists his chief publications and suggests names of biologists in the Royal Society whom CD might ask to sign his nomination certificate.
| Author: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [14] Dec [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10712 |
To F. M. Balfour 13 December 1876
Summary
CD is glad to propose FMB for Royal Society. Explains information and certificates needed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
| Date: | 13 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | National Records of Scotland (GD433/2/103C/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10716 |
From G. H. Darwin [22 January 1882]
Summary
Writes of his work and a paper accepted for publication in the Philosophical Transactions [? "Stresses caused in the interior of the earth", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 173 (1883): 187–230].
Gives news of friends.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [22 Jan 1882] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 102 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13636 |
To J. D. Hooker 5 December 1880
Summary
Thanks for agreeing to propose Frank as F.R.S.
Would have enjoyed discussing Island life.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 5 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 504–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12890 |
To G. H. Darwin 15 November [1873]
Summary
CD writes about organising a subscription for Dohrn’s Zoological Station at Naples. Has drawn up a draft circular for naturalists to sign to show their support for the Station.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 15 Nov [1873] |
| Classmark: | National Records of Scotland (GD433/2/103A/1/1–2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9142 |
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- … letter from T. H. Huxley to Anton Dohrn, 15 November 1873 . CD’s original draft of the circular is in DAR 96: 163. CD refers to the Royal Society of London , the Linnean Society , and the Ray Society . William Cavendish was the seventh duke of Devonshire, and Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil was the third marquess of Salisbury. Michael Foster . …
From J. H. Gilbert 22 February 1881
Summary
The laboratory has scarcely any experimental evidence on acidity of humus soil and earthworm excreta. Refers CD to some sources of information.
| Author: | Joseph Henry Gilbert |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Feb 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 43 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13063 |
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- … Michael Foster would give an answer on this point—or Ray Lankester? Much regretting that I cannot render you better service, I am, My Dear Sir | Yours sincerely | J. H. Gilbert (1) Chapter II, Section 5, and Chapter V. Section 3. I can lend you “How Crops Feed”—or the Versuchs-Stationen with Detmer’s papers if you have not got them. Top of letter : ‘ …
From T. H. Huxley 3 December 1873
Summary
A letter from Anton Dohrn declines the proposed fund [that THH and others suggested be raised in England for marine biological station at Naples].
Hooker’s inaugural as President of Royal Society a success.
R. Owen distinguished himself in his way.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Dec 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 330; Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 13: 252) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9169 |
From G. J. Romanes 1 June 1876
Summary
Anticipates reading Haeckel’s Perigenesis der Plastidule [1876].
Physiologists will think vivisection bill stringent.
Honorary memberships of Physiological Society created expressly to honour CD.
Working hard at jellyfish just now. Needs snake poison.
| Author: | George John Romanes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 June 1876 |
| Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 52–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10524 |
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- … letter to C. S. Wedgwood, 20 April 1876 ). A bill to regulate vivisection was introduced into the House of Lords on 15 May 1876 ( Hansard Parliamentary Debates 3d ser. vol. 229 col. 665). CD and Romanes had drafted a vivisection bill in 1875, but it had not become law (see Correspondence vol. 23). John Scott Burdon Sanderson and Michael Foster . …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (24) |
| Foster, Michael | (7) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
| Baxter, W. W. | (2) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (56) |
| Foster, Michael | (13) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (6) |
| Balfour, F. M. | (4) |
