From the Naples Zoological Station 12 February 1879
Summary
Seventieth birthday greetings.
| Author: | Naples Zoological Station |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11874 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Naples Zoological Station Darwin, C. R. …
- … From the Naples Zoological Station 12 February 1879 …
- … DAR 172: 2 Naples Zoological Station Naples 12 Feb 1879 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Beckenham Kent Engla The Zoological Stations of Naples and the naturalists diferent …
To A. G. Dew-Smith 19 January [1875]
Summary
Discusses subscriptions for the Naples Zoological Station.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albert George Dew-Smith |
| Date: | 19 Jan [1875] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.462) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9825 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Discusses subscriptions for the Naples Zoological Station. …
- … for funds for Anton Dohrn’s Zoological Station at Naples. For the final version of the …
- … letter with an account of the Zoological Station at Naples. Will you tell D r Foster that …
From Michael Foster [before 9 May 1874]
Summary
Encloses a report on state of appeal for Naples Zoological Station.
| Author: | Michael Foster |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 9 May 1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 167 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9448 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Encloses a report on state of appeal for Naples Zoological Station. …
- … in the completion of the zoological station at Naples (see Circular to various scientific …
- … appealing for funds for the zoological station at Naples. For a later, more complete, copy …
From F. M. Balfour [20 March – 14 April 1875]
Summary
Gives Carl Claus’s identifications of the organisms sent by CD.
| Author: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [20 Mar – 14 Apr 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 149 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9203 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 149 Francis Maitland Balfour Naples Zoological Station [20 Mar – 14 Apr 1875] Charles …
- … Friedrich Claus , who visited the Naples zoological station from 20 March until 14 April …
From Michael Foster 17 June [1874]
Summary
Encloses a report on current status of the appeal for Naples Zoological Station.
Shark embryology.
| Author: | Michael Foster |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 June [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 166 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9498 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … a report on current status of the appeal for Naples Zoological Station. Shark embryology. …
- … Co. ), to the account of The Naples Zoological Station Fund. GEO. J. ALLMAN, F.R.S. , …
- … researchers to work at the Naples Zoological Station ; he had been there since earlier in …
- … financial difficulties of the Zoological Station at Naples. Francis Maitland Balfour was …
- … Zoological Station that is reproduced here as an enclosure. Balfour and Albert George Dew-Smith had gone to Naples …
From Michael Foster 7 April [1874]
Summary
Is organising an appeal for the Naples Zoological Station.
| Author: | Michael Foster |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Apr [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 165 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9396 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Is organising an appeal for the Naples Zoological Station. …
- … had been doing research at the Zoological Station at Naples since late 1873 (see Heuss …
To G. J. Romanes 14 September [1879]
Summary
Thanks GJR for gift of game.
Contributes to [Naples] Zoological Station.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 14 Sept [1879] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.567) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12229 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Thanks GJR for gift of game. Contributes to [Naples] Zoological Station. …
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 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … help Anton Dohrn complete the Naples Zoological Station, which is in danger of remaining …
- … For more on the history of the Zoological Station at Naples, see Heuss 1991 . Huxley had …
- … be unable to complete the zoological station at Naples. Professor Huxley has told Foster …
To Anton Dohrn 13 February 1874
Summary
Thanks for birthday greetings.
Comments on work at Naples Zoological Station. F. M. Balfour to visit Naples. Would like to send third son [Francis Darwin] to learn art of observing marine animals.
Health indifferent.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Date: | 13 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 711) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9289 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … greetings. Comments on work at Naples Zoological Station. F. M. Balfour to visit Naples. …
- … him a happy birthday from the Naples Zoological Station (see telegram from Anton Dohrn , …
To G. H. Darwin [17 November 1873]
Summary
Sorry to hear of GHD’s poor health – he could have pleasant society at Cambridge if he were stronger.
Contributes £75 [to a fund for Naples Zoological Station] "if the affair goes on after we hear from Dohrn".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | [17 Nov 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 16 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9148 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Contributes £75 [to a fund for Naples Zoological Station] "if the affair goes on after we …
- … help Anton Dohrn complete the Zoological Station at Naples (see letter to G. H. Darwin, …
From J. V. Carus 26 February 1877
Summary
Is unconvinced that correction in Cross and self-fertilisation requested by CD [see 10852] should be made. Asks CD to reconsider.
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Feb 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 107 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10870 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 161: 107 Julius Victor Carus Zoological Station, Naples 26 Feb 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Naples, | Zoological Station, Febr 26. 1877 My dear Sir, Of course I shall correct the “ …
To Anton Dohrn 24 August [1872]
Summary
Rejoices at success [of Naples Zoological Station]. Will send complete set of his books to the library.
If AD is interested, he will send a copy of Expression when it comes out.
Invites AD to visit Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Date: | 24 Aug [1872] |
| Classmark: | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 700 & 700a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8486 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Rejoices at success [of Naples Zoological Station]. Will send complete set of his books to …
- … On Dohrn’s efforts to establish a zoological station at Naples, see the letter from Anton …
From Anton Dohrn 9 February 1882
Summary
Birthday congratulations from the Naples Zoological Station. A new physiological department will be constructed. Describes work in progress at the Station.
Sends his paper on teleosteans.
Heard R. Owen read a paper at York [meeting of BAAS]. Owen had views similar to AD’s, but seemed not to be aware of work of others.
| Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Feb 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 222 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13673 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … congratulations from the Naples Zoological Station. A new physiological department will be …
- … Bulletin 168 (Supplement: The Naples Zoological Station and the Marine Biological …
- … Abschnitte. Publication of the Zoological Station of Naples. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann. …
From Anton Dohrn 27 January 1873
Summary
The Naples Zoological Station and its library are growing fast. His life is a constant battle with the municipality, but has managed to make a little progress on vertebrate ancestry and morphology. His views get further away from what is generally accepted.
| Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Jan 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 212 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8750 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … The Naples Zoological Station and its library are growing fast. His life is a constant …
- … 1985–. Dohrn, Anton. 1873. The Zoological Station at Naples. Nature , 29 May 1873, p. 81. …
- … his books for the library of the zoological station at Naples that Dohrn had founded (see …
From A. G. Dew-Smith 17 January 1875
Summary
Sends a letter from Anton Dohrn, which, if CD approves, will be printed with a list of all donors to the Naples Zoological Station. AGD-S has just returned from a visit to the Station and gives an account of its status. German government has made a grant.
| Author: | Albert George Dew-Smith |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Jan 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 174 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9822 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … with a list of all donors to the Naples Zoological Station. AGD-S has just returned from a …
- … appeal for funds for the Zoological Station in Naples that Anton Dohrn had founded. The …
To Williams & Norgate 30 August [1872]
Summary
Asks them to procure the two volumes of Living Cirripedia for Anton Dohrn’s zoological station in Naples.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
| Date: | 30 Aug [1872] |
| Classmark: | Duke’s, Dorchester (dealers) (6 September 2018, lot 367) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8495F |
Matches: 3 hits
- … publications for the library of the Naples Zoological Station when he attended the meeting …
- … the two volumes of Living Cirripedia for Anton Dohrn’s zoological station in Naples. …
- … for D r . Anton Dohrn for the Zoological Station at Naples; & I have directed M r . Murray …
From Anton Dohrn 21 August 1872
Summary
Has reported on the Naples Zoological Station to BAAS meeting at Brighton. Hopes to open it in January. Is at work building up the library by contributions from publishers and naturalists.
Deplores Wallace’s "drifting away" and his association with such men as H. C. Bastian.
Disbelieves in ascidians as our ancestors. Has a substitute he is sure will please CD.
| Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Aug 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 209 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8481 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Has reported on the Naples Zoological Station to BAAS meeting at Brighton. Hopes to open …
- … finance the running costs of the zoological station at Naples by charging scientific or …
- … by Dohrn in building the zoological station at Naples, see Heuss 1991 , pp. 115–20, 124– …
- … the Foundation of Zoological Stations. I came right on from Naples, taking just three days …
- … Zoological or botanical, to the Station? Williams & Norgate are ready to act as Agent of the Station in this country and forward everything that is sent to them, down to Naples. …
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 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … vol. 27, telegram from the Naples Zoological Station, 12 February 1879 . Dohrn …
- … Abschnitte. Publication of the Zoological Station of Naples. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann. …
- … the German Empire to include the Zoological Station at Naples in the regular budget of the …
- … financial difficulties of the Zoological Station at Naples, see Correspondence vol. 21, …
- … Naples and neighbouring seas. ” If all fits in,—if we are especially not drowned in a great European war, —then I hope to give soon proof of a very active scientific life, and I wish to be able to present for many coming years the congratulations of the Zoological Station …
- … Zoological Station; rental periods varied from one to five years and renewal was not always assured (see Heuss 1991 , pp. 237–40). The monograph series, Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte , began publication in 1880 with the works Die Ctenophoren des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte (Ctenophorae of the Gulf of Naples …
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 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … he had visited Dohrn at the Naples Zoological Station in 1874 ( Correspondence vol. 22, …
- … funds in support of Dohrn’s Zoological Station at Naples (see Correspondence vol. 22). …
- … Zoological Station will have let me free and the food-yolk of my embryonic scientific conceptions may have so far disappeared as to allow a fuller presentation of the Embryo to eyes like yours. Mrs. Dohrn will be proud to hear, that she ought to have had the honour of seeing you and your family;— she carries with her the Volume you so kindly sent to me to Naples, …
From J. V. Carus 22 March 1877
Summary
A curious error – too late to change: in Cross and self-fertilisation CD has "cleistogenous" for "cleistogamous" flowers throughout.
| Author: | Julius Victor Carus |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Mar 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 108 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10909 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … 161: 108 Julius Victor Carus Zoological Station, Naples 22 Mar 1877 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Zoological Station | Naples March 22, 1877 My dear Sir, I have to point out a curious …
- … throughout. Anton Dohrn founded the Zoological Station at Naples in 1874. On the occasion …
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| Darwin, G. H. | (3) |
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| Darwin, Caroline | (1) |
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Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots
Summary
Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back in time started when he decided to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an essay on Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas…
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- … There are summaries of all Darwin's letters from the year 1879 on this website. The full texts of …
2.6 Adolf von Hildebrand bust
Summary
< Back to Introduction In 1873, the German biologist Anton Dohrn commissioned a plaster bust of Darwin for the ‘fresco room’ of his new research centre, the Stazione Zoologica in Naples. It was a fitting memorial of a long association between the two…
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- … < Back to Introduction In 1873, the German biologist Anton Dohrn commissioned a …
Darwin in letters, 1874: A turbulent year
Summary
The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early months working on second editions of Coral reefs and Descent of man; the rest of the year was mostly devoted to further research on insectivorous plants. A…
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- … The year 1874 was one of consolidation, reflection, and turmoil for Darwin. He spent the early …
List of correspondents
Summary
Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent. "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…
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- … Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click …
Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?
Summary
Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…
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- … Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of …
Darwin in letters, 1872: Job done?
Summary
'My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, 'is so nearly closed. . . What little more I can do, shall be chiefly new work’, and the tenor of his correspondence throughout the year is one of wistful reminiscence, coupled with a keen eye…
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- … ‘My career’, Darwin wrote towards the end of 1872, ‘is so nearly closed. . . What little more I …
Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts
Summary
At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…
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- … At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of …
