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: 7 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Foster, Michael …
- … To Michael Foster 29 [June 1871] …
- … Robert Darwin London Queen Anne St, 6 Down letterhead 29 [June 1871] Michael Foster …
- … the 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 August 1871 at …
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: 6 hits
- … Foster, Michael Darwin, C. R. …
- … From Michael Foster 20 September 1871 …
- … DAR 164: 164 Michael Foster Huntingdon 20 Sept 1871 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … CD’s letter has not been found, but see the letter to Michael Foster, 29 [June 1871] . …
- … See letter to Michael Foster, 26 June [1871] and n. 4. Foster was praelector in …
- … of physiology in 1883 ( ODNB ). See letter to Michael Foster, 26 June [1871] and n. 1. …
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: 6 hits
- … Foster, Michael Darwin, C. R. …
- … 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 …
- … see ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). Foster refers to Michael George Foster and Mercy Elizabeth …
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: 6 hits
- … Foster, Michael Darwin, C. R. …
- … From Michael Foster [before 9 May 1874] …
- … DAR 164: 167 Michael Foster unstated [before 9 May 1874] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … various scientific men, [7 April 1874], and letter to Michael Foster, 23 April [1874] ). …
- … between this letter and the letter to Michael Foster, 9 May [1874] . Foster’s letter is …
- … the circular, see the letter from Michael Foster, 17 June [1874] . In this earlier copy, …
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 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Foster, Michael …
- … To Michael Foster 6 June [1871] …
- … Society (Mss.B.D25.419) Charles Robert Darwin Down 6 June [1871] Michael Foster …
- … the relationship between this letter and the letter from Michael Foster, 4 June [1871] . …
- … See letter from Michael Foster, 4 June [1871] . No record of Foster’s visiting has been …
From Michael Foster 18 January 1882
Summary
Responds to CD’s query about the sensitivity of plants in light and darkness and Julius Wiesner’s assumptions [in Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)].
| Author: | Michael Foster |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Jan 1882 |
| Classmark: | DAR 106: D20–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13623 |
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: 7 hits
- … Foster, Michael Darwin, C. R. …
- … From Michael Foster [26 June 1871] …
- … DAR 58.1: 141–2 Michael Foster Blackheath [26 June 1871] Charles Robert Darwin …
- … this letter and the letters to Michael Foster , 26 June [1871] and 29 [June 1871] . In …
- … 26 June was a Monday. See letter to Michael Foster, 26 June [1871] and n. 3. Urari is an …
- … one (Roman numeral). See letter to Michael Foster, 26 June [1871] and n. 4. ‘Strychnia’ …
- … on Drosera rotundifolia (see letter to Michael Foster, 26 June [1871] and n. 4). …
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 |
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 |
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 |
From Michael Foster 30 January 1875
Summary
Account of the fund to help Anton Dohrn’s zoological station at Naples.
| Author: | Michael Foster |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 30 Jan 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 215/1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9835F |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Foster, Michael Darwin, C. R. …
- … From Michael Foster 30 January 1875 …
- … DAR 162: 215/1 Michael Foster 30 Jan 1875 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … Naples, see Correspondence vol. 22, letters from Michael Foster , 7 April [1874] and 17 …
- … June [1874] , and letters to Michael Foster , 23 April [1874] and 9 May [1874] . See also …
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 |
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 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 |
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 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Foster, Michael Darwin, C. R. …
- … From Michael Foster 4 June [1871] …
- … DAR 164: 162, DAR 195.1: 51 Michael Foster Trinity College, Cambridge 4 June [1871] …
- … the relationship between this letter and the letter to Michael Foster, 16 April 1871 . For …
- … see the enclosure to the letter to Michael Foster, 16 April 1871 . Foster probably …
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: 7 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Lubbock, John Sclater, P. L. Lyell, Charles Carpenter, W. B. Foster, Michael …
- … P. L. Sclater, Charles Lyell, W. B. Carpenter, and Michael Foster [7 April 1874] …
- … Philip Lutley Sclater Charles Lyell, 1st baronet William Benjamin Carpenter Michael Foster …
- … F.R.S. — 56 R. P. Road N.W. D r Michael Foster FRS Gt Shelford Cambridge Will you be so …
- … between this letter, the letter from Michael Foster, 7 April [1874] , and the letter to …
- … Naples, has not been found; see, however, the letter from Michael Foster, 7 April [1874] . …
- … some will be thus saved. D r . Michael Foster after receiving a certain number of …
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 |
Foster, Michael and Sedgwick, Adam, eds. 1885. The works of Francis Maitland Balfour. 4 vols. London: Macmillan and co.
Foster, Michael and Balfour, Francis Maitland. 1874. The elements of embryology. London: Macmillan and Co.
Document type
| letter | (73) |
| bibliography | (8) |
| people | (8) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (35) |
| Foster, Michael | (9) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (6) |
| Balfour, F. M. | (5) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (5) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (37) |
| Foster, Michael | (8) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (6) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (3) |
| Dohrn, Anton | (3) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (72) |
| Foster, Michael | (17) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (8) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (7) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (7) |
