skip to content

Darwin Correspondence Project

Search: contains "Lubbock, John Lubbock, John Foster, Michael letter"

Darwin Correspondence Project
Search:
Lubbock and John and Lubbock and John and Foster and Michael and letter in keywords disabled_by_default
Darwin, C. R. in addressee disabled_by_default
2 Items
Sorted by:  
Page: 1

From Michael Foster   25 June 1871

thumbnail

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: 1 hit

  • letter from Michael Foster, 4 June [1871] . Bickley is about four miles north of Down. High Elms was the home of CD’s neighbour, John Lubbock . …

From P. H. Pye-Smith   19 December 1881

thumbnail

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

Matches: 1 hit

  • John Lubbock was head of the family bank as well as being an MP and president of the Linnean Society . John Scott Burdon Sanderson , Michael Foster , Thomas Lauder Brunton , and Pye-Smith were members of the Physiological Society committee set up to consider the vivisection issue (for more on the committee, see the letter
Document type
letter (2)
Addressee
Darwin, C. R.disabled_by_default
Date
1871 (1)
1881 (1)