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 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 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 |
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- … 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 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: 2 hits
- … statement [relating to appeal for Naples Zoological Station] if they approve of it. …
- … The enclosure, an appeal for the Zoological Station at Naples, has not been found; see, …
From Charles Lyell 24 April 1874
Summary
Will subscribe £25 towards F. A. Dohrn’s Zoological Station at Naples.
| Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Apr 1874 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Lyell correspondence Mss.B.L981) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9426F |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Will subscribe £25 towards F. A. Dohrn’s Zoological Station at Naples. …
- … a printed appeal for the Zoological Station at Naples, which was to include the names of …
From T. H. Huxley 31 March 1874
Summary
His note on brain [in man and apes for 2d ed. of Descent] nearly finished.
Has heard nothing about Dohrn.
THH has been invited to lecture in America.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Mar 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 332 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9380 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … to help Anton Dohrn fund the Naples Zoological Station ; Foster’s students, Alfred George …
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
- … the following description of the Naples Zoological Station : ‘The collection in the sixty …
- … CD sent £100 in aid of the Zoological Station at Naples. CD’s sons George Howard and …
- … Naples. This statement must be my excuse for not having answered earlier to yourself and to your sons. What shall I say, to express my thanks thus as I feel it? If I would try to satisfy my feelings by expressing them, I would tell you, what perhaps you would hardly believe,— and without telling it, I feel, that I am at a loss to express in any way my thanks. I have accepted your great gift, and it has really saved the Zoological Station …
From Anton Dohrn 12 February 1874
Summary
Birthday greetings.
| Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9285 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Lubbock, [1871 or later] . The Zoological Station at Naples had been founded by Dohrn. …
- … Origin Naples Twelveth Feby at eleven fifteen 4.88 From The Zoological Station To Darwin | …
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: 2 hits
- … Lankester’s account of Dohrn’s Zoological Station at Naples. See letter from Anton Dohrn, …
- … had sent a photograph of the Zoological Station at Naples (see letter from Anton Dohrn, 6 …
To Michael Foster 9 May [1874]
Summary
CD is rather disappointed by the money raised for Dohrn. Had hoped for £700–800.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Michael Foster |
| Date: | 9 May [1874] |
| Classmark: | Michael Silverman (dealer) (January 2001) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9452 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … with the completion of the zoological station at Naples (see letter from Michael Foster, [ …
To Michael Foster 23 April [1874]
Summary
Approves of proof [of subscription appeal for Dohrn’s Naples station]. Suggests names.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Michael Foster |
| Date: | 23 Apr [1874] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 4: 69) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9425 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … have copies of an appeal for the Zoological Station at Naples printed for distribution to …
To John Lubbock 8 April [1874]
Summary
Encloses a statement and circular he has been asked to send to JL.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 8 Apr [1874] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8283 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … s statement of appeal for the Zoological Station at Naples, to Lubbock’s home address. …
To Michael Foster 25 April [1874]
Summary
Has received circulars, and contributions from Lyell and George Busk [for Naples biological station].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Michael Foster |
| Date: | 25 Apr [1874] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 4: 71) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9427 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … a printed appeal for the Zoological Station at Naples for circulation to prospective …
To Charles Lyell 31 May [1874]
Summary
Comments on CL’s planned bequest to science. CD would do the same if he had fewer sons.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 31 May [1874] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.442) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9477 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … to complete Anton Dohrn’s Zoological Station at Naples. The note from George Julius …
To T. H. Huxley 28 March [1874]
Summary
Asks for THH’s description of brain and skull [of man and apes] for 2d ed. of Descent [supplement to ch. 7].
Asks about Dohrn affair and contributions for Naples station. Doubts subscriptions will be successful.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 28 Mar [1874] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 293) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9376 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … the difficulty of financing his new Zoological Station in Naples (see letter from T. H. …
From G. H. Darwin 18 October 1874
Summary
Has been invited to lecture at the Royal Institution by Spottiswoode. Discusses subjects he might deal with and his reasons for attempting it.
Tells of a complicated case of a double sale of a living.
Huxley says F. M. Balfour passed brilliantly.
| Author: | George Howard Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Oct 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.2: 41 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9683 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Maitland Balfour had been at the Zoological Station in Naples earlier in the year (see …
To Henry Willett 19 April [1874]
Summary
F. M. Balfour is in Naples. Comments on rate at which sea eats back the land, as given in early editions of Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Willett |
| Date: | 19 Apr [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 359 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9420 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … was in Naples in April 1874; he had been doing research at the Zoological Station there …
From T. H. Huxley 6 March 1874
Summary
Has heard from Dohrn about his financial problems. Asks CD’s advice on what to do.
THH’s article in Contemporary Review ["Universities: actual and ideal" (1874), Collected essays, vol. 3 (1894)].
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Mar 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 193–4; Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (Huxley: 13.256, 13.258) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9336 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … in order to complete the zoological station he was building in Naples (see Correspondence …
- … Zoological Station; it was not until Murray published the eighth edition of 1878 that the contents of the Naples …
| letter | (19) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Foster, Michael | (3) |
| Dohrn, Anton | (2) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Foster, Michael | (4) |
| Dohrn, Anton | (2) |
| Lubbock, John | (2) |
| Lyell, Charles | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (19) |
| Foster, Michael | (7) |
| Dohrn, Anton | (4) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (3) |
| Lyell, Charles | (3) |
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
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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?
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'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
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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 …
