To Michael Foster 29 [June 1871]
Summary
Thanks him for curare.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Michael Foster |
| Date: | 29 [June 1871] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.401) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7837 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … To Michael Foster 29 [June 1871] …
- … Robert Darwin London Queen Anne St, 6 Down letterhead 29 [June 1871] Michael Foster …
- … relationship between this letter and the letter from Michael Foster, [26 June 1871] . See …
- … letter from Michael Foster, [26 June 1871] . See letter to Michael Foster, 26 …
- … June [1871] and n. 4, and letter from Michael Foster, [26 June 1871] . CD spent most of …
To Michael Foster 6 June [1871]
Summary
Comments on MF’s "little essay" [see 7800].
Invites him to visit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Michael Foster |
| Date: | 6 June [1871] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.419) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7803 |
From Michael Foster 20 September 1871
Summary
Offers his services for the future.
Working hard at establishing physiology at Cambridge.
| Author: | Michael Foster |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 164 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7957 |
Matches: 4 hits
From Michael Foster 25 June 1871
Summary
Regrets he cannot get to Queen Anne Street, but intends to come to Down.
| Author: | Michael Foster |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 June 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 163 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7831 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From Michael Foster 25 June 1871 …
- … DAR 164: 163 Michael Foster Blackheath 25 June 1871 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Foster . See letter from Michael Foster, 4 June [1871] . Bickley is about four miles north …
- … See letter to Michael Foster, 6 June [1871] . Foster may refer to the New Oxford and …
- … 24 to 30 June 1871 (see ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). Foster refers to Michael George Foster …
To Michael Foster 26 June [1871]
Summary
Invites MF to visit.
Asks where he can obtain curare for plant experiment.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Michael Foster |
| Date: | 26 June [1871] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.400) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7832 |
From Michael Foster [26 June 1871]
Summary
Has arranged to send CD a bottle of urari [curare]. Describes its effect with strychnine.
| Author: | Michael Foster |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [26 June 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 141–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7834 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From Michael Foster [26 June 1871] …
- … DAR 58.1: 141–2 Michael Foster Blackheath [26 June 1871] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … letter and the letters to Michael Foster , 26 June [1871] and 29 [June 1871] . In 1871, …
- … Roman numeral). See letter to Michael Foster, 26 June [1871] and n. 4. ‘Strychnia’ is a …
- … on Drosera rotundifolia (see letter to Michael Foster, 26 June [1871] and n. 4). …
To Michael Foster 16 April 1871
Summary
Encloses two questions he hopes MF can answer: the mechanism of transmission by nerves; and the mechanism by which contemplating part of our body, we become conscious of its existence
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Michael Foster |
| Date: | 16 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/16); DAR 195.1: 11–13 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7689G |
From Michael Foster 4 June [1871]
Summary
Sends answers to CD’s queries on expression.
| Author: | Michael Foster |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 4 June [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 164: 162, DAR 195.1: 51 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7800 |
To [W. W. Baxter?] [early July 1871]
Summary
Orders nitrate of ammonia for experiment on plants.
Are measuring glasses accurate?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | [early July 1871] |
| Classmark: | The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9524 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … vol. 19, letter from Michael Foster, [26 June 1871] ). The Darwins stayed at Haredene, …
- … between this letter, the letter from Michael Foster, [26 June 1871] , and the letter to …
- … 1871] ( Correspondence vol. 19). The recipient is conjectured from the fact that Baxter, a chemist in Bromley, was regularly used by the Darwins. CD described the use of nitrate of ammonia in Insectivorous plants , pp. 148–53. A minim was a measurement used by apothecaries, equivalent to one drop of water. Curare and ourari are alternative names for the paralysing poison derived from Strychnos toxifera . CD had obtained the curare from Michael Foster , …
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 30 April [1876]
Summary
Suggests JSBS’s new machine for observing arterial action be used to test CD’s hypothesis that blushing is caused by thinking intensely about a part of the body and thus releasing the arteries.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 30 Apr [1876] |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-01) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10485 |
To W. W. Baxter 8 August [1871]
Summary
Asks WWB to send 8 grains of acetate of strychnine by post.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter |
| Date: | 8 Aug [1871] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 26) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7900 |
To Francis Darwin 6 June [1871]
Summary
Thanks for FD’s help. CD cannot conceive what Mivart means by "the identity between eyes of Cephalopods and Vertebrata".
Has invited Michael Foster to Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 6 June [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 271.3: 4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7806 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 1871] . CD had asked Francis to assist him in finding material on the eyes of cephalopods (octopuses and squids) so he could respond to St George Jackson Mivart’s claims in Mivart 1871a (see letter to Francis Darwin, 21 May [1871] and n. 4). CD may refer to the North British Review . See letter from Michael Foster, …
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
- … 1871, and was in charge of the development of the Cavendish Laboratory, which opened in 1874. George refers to George Chaworth Musters’s book At home with the Patagonians ( Musters 1871 ). Francis Maitland Balfour had been at the Zoological Station in Naples earlier in the year (see letter from Michael Foster, …
To E. H. Stanley 15 April 1875
Summary
CD has helped leading physiologists to prepare a draft bill for legislation with regard to vivisection, and he hopes Lord Derby will support the bill and mention it to ministers of the Cabinet. Has heard that other groups are preparing bills for the same purpose, and feels it important that the science of physiology be protected as well as animals.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Henry Stanley, 15th earl of Derby |
| Date: | 15 Apr 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: C22–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9933 |
To J. D. Hooker 14 April [1875]
Summary
CD and others now think it advisable to go further than a petition on vivisection, and a bill has been drafted.
F. Delpino’s pamphlet on pitchers ["Sulle pianti a bicchieri", Nuovo G. Bot. Ital. 3 (1871): 174–6].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 14 Apr [1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 384–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9927 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Michael Foster . Edward Henry Stanley , the earl of Derby, was foreign secretary; Richard Assheton Cross was home secretary (see letter from J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 12 April [1875] ). Hooker was president of the Royal Society of London . A lightly annotated copy of Federico Delpino’s paper ‘Sulle piante a bicchieri’ ( Delpino 1871 ) …
To F. M. Balfour 13 December 1876
Summary
CD is glad to propose FMB for Royal Society. Explains information and certificates needed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
| Date: | 13 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | National Records of Scotland (GD433/2/103C/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10716 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Michael Foster was a member of the council of the Royal Society. Balfour’s certificate was signed by twelve people but John William Strutt was not one of them (Royal Society Archives EC/1878/05). Strutt had become third Baron Rayleigh in 1873. Although Strutt was a physicist, CD may have thought he would want to sign because of family connections to Balfour; Strutt married Balfour’s sister in 1871 ( …
| letter | (16) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Foster, Michael | (4) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Foster, Michael | (4) |
| Baxter, W. W. | (2) |
| Balfour, F. M. | (1) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
| Foster, Michael | (8) |
| Baxter, W. W. | (2) |
| Balfour, F. M. | (1) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
