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To John Lubbock, P. L. Sclater, Charles Lyell, W. B. Carpenter, and Michael Foster [7 April 1874]
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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 |
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- … Lubbock, 8 April [1874] . John Lubbock . Philip Lutley Sclater was secretary of the Zoological Society, located at 11 Hanover Square, London W. ( DSB , Post Office London directory , 1875). Charles Lyell . William Benjamin Carpenter lived at 56 Regent’s Park Road, London ( Post Office London directory 1875). The enclosure, an appeal for the Zoological Station at Naples, has not been found; see, however, the letter from Michael Foster, 7 April [1874] . …
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 |
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- … Charles Lyell , John Lubbock , and Philip Lutley Sclater . See letter to John Lubbock, 8 April [1874] . Francis Maitland Balfour had sent a photograph of the Zoological Station at Naples (see letter from Anton Dohrn, 6 April 1874 ). CD attended the soirée at the Royal Society of London on 22 April ( letter to Michael Foster, …
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Addressee
| Carpenter, W. B. | (1) |
| Dohrn, Anton | (1) |
| Foster, Michael | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Carpenter, W. B. | (1) |
| Dohrn, Anton | (1) |
| Foster, Michael | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
Date
| 1874 | (2) |
