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 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Lubbock, John Sclater, P. L. Lyell, Charles Carpenter, W. B. Foster, Michael …
- … the letter from Michael Foster, 7 April [1874] , and the letter to John Lubbock, 8 April [ …
- … John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury Philip Lutley Sclater Charles Lyell, 1st baronet William Benjamin Carpenter Michael Foster …
- … To John Lubbock, P. L. Sclater, Charles Lyell, W. B. Carpenter, and Michael Foster [7 …
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 |
From Michael Foster 25 June 1871
Author: | Michael Foster |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 June 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 163 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7831 |
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 |
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 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 J. T. Gulick 6 August 1872
Summary
Sends synopsis of his paper "On diversity of evolution" [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 11 (1873): 496–505] in which he attempts to show some of the means, other than natural selection, of modification of species.
Author: | John Thomas Gulick |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Aug 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 165: 240 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8453 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … John Lubbock was a vice-president of the British Association, and the president of the biology section ( Report of the 42d meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1872), pp. xlvi–xlvii). Douglas Galton was one of the general secretaries of the British Association; the other was Michael Foster , …
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 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, …
From John Tyndall 21 April 1873
Summary
[Sir Joseph?] Whitworth’s contribution brings total to over £2000. Wishes CD could be persuaded to come to lunch with Huxley and Emerson.
Author: | John Tyndall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Apr 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: C15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8870 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … John Lubbock’s bank, Robarts, Lubbock & Co . (see letter to T. H. Huxley, 23 April 1873 ). In his letter to Tyndall of 18 April [1873] , CD had expressed his worry about the letter he would write to Huxley to inform him about the money. Huxley had returned from Aberdeen ( letter from T. H. Huxley to Michael Foster, …
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Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Foster, Michael | (1) |
Gulick, J. T. | (1) |
Pye-Smith, P. H. | (1) |
Tyndall, John | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
Carpenter, W. B. | (1) |
Dohrn, Anton | (1) |
Foster, Michael | (1) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
Carpenter, W. B. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
Dohrn, Anton | (1) |
Foster, Michael | (2) |
Gulick, J. T. | (1) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Lubbock, John | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Pye-Smith, P. H. | (1) |
Sclater, P. L. | (1) |
Tyndall, John | (2) |