From Anton Dohrn 6 April 1874
Summary
His gratitude for CD’s gift. An account of his difficulties with the Zoological Station and his health.
F. M. Balfour has told him that CD would like to see the question of complemental males in cirripedes studied again. AD would like to enter the field and to study the whole morphological development of cirripedes.
Describes the interest in embryological work in Russia and Germany.
| Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 214 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9394 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … See letter to Anton Dohrn, 7 March 1874 . CD sent £100 in aid of the Zoological Station at …
- … August 1874 . The photograph has not been found; see, however, the letter to Anton Dohrn, …
- … 1874 ). Dohrn planned to let research space at the Zoological Station to help support its running costs (see Correspondence vol. 21, letter from Anton Dohrn, …
From Anton Dohrn 11 February 1880
Summary
Sends birthday greetings
and the good news of a subvention for the Zoological Station received from the German government. There are now 20 naturalists working at the Station.
| Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Feb 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 218 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12471 |
From Anton Dohrn 29 July 1875
Summary
Regrets he is too busy to accept CD’s invitation to visit Down, but could only thank him again for saving the Zoological Station from shipwreck.
| Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 217 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10101 |
From Anton Dohrn 18 February 1881
Summary
Belated birthday greetings
and reminiscences of CD’s help to the Station, which continues to prosper. A recent innovation is the establishment of the Zoologische Jahresbericht edited by J. V. Carus.
| Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Feb 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 221 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13056 |
From Anton Dohrn 7 September 1871
Summary
Reports on the international support he has obtained for the zoological station [see 7038]. Asks CD whether he will serve on a board of naturalists who would receive an annual report on the station.
Huxley is now convinced by AD’s views on homologies of the nervous system of arthropods, annelids, and vertebrates. Kovalevsky takes the same line but does not go far enough.
| Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 207 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7925 |
From Anton Dohrn 7 February 1875
Summary
Thanks to CD’s help Zoological Station has passed a crisis and is now flourishing.
Is writing pamphlet on "the origin of vertebrates and the principle of succession of functions" [see 9991 and 10003]. It is likely CD will not be pleased with it, but he thinks he must now, after seven years, bring it out. Seeks to open the way for a new series of theoretical questions.
| Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Feb 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 215 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9845 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1874 (see Correspondence vol. 22, telegram from Anton Dohrn , 12 February 1874). CD and several other British researchers had organised a subscription to raise money for the Zoological Station at Naples, of which Dohrn was the founder and director (see letter …
- … letter from Anton Dohrn, 28 August 1872 ). CD supported the competing theory that vertebrates were descended from ascidians (sea squirts; see Descent 1: 205–6). CD’s copy of Dohrn’s monograph ( Dohrn 1875 ) is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. In his recent work ‘Die Stammesverwandtschaft der Wirbelthiere und Wirbellosen’ (The genealogical relationship of vertebrates and invertebrates; Semper 1874 ), …
From Anton Dohrn 13 November 1872
Summary
Is amazed at Expression. Like CD’s former works, it contains the material and principles of a new science.
The Zoological Station is making good progress – now has a fine building. Hopes for a stable income from contributions of various governments.
| Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Nov 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 211 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8624 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1874 and included as an insert to the Zeitschrift für Wissenschaftliche Zoologie for 1875 ( Groeben 1982 , pp. 99–100 n. 74). Donum auctoris : gift of the author (Latin). Mont Blanc, the highest peak in Europe west of the Caucasus, is on the French–Swiss and French–Italian border; Dhaulagiri is one of the highest peaks in Nepal. CD often used the booksellers Williams & Norgate ; however, no correspondence with them on this subject has been found. See letter to Anton Dohrn, …
