Foster, Michael and Lankester, Edwin Ray, eds. 1898–1903. The scientific memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley. 4 vols. and supplement. London: Macmillan. New York: D. Appleton.
Dew-Smith, Albert George and Foster, Michael. 1876. The effects of the constant current on the heart. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology 10: 735–71.
Dew-Smith, Albert George and Foster, Michael. 1875. On the behaviour of the hearts of mollusks under the influence of electric currents. [Read 18 March 1875.] Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 23 (1874–5): 318–43.
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: 4 hits
- … CD had obtained the curare from Michael Foster , who had two stocks of the poison, one of …
- … Correspondence vol. 19, letter from Michael Foster, [26 June 1871] ). The Darwins stayed …
- … by the relationship between this letter, the letter from Michael Foster, [26 June 1871] , …
- … and the letter to Michael Foster, 29 [June 1871] ( Correspondence vol. 19). The recipient …
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 |
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 |
From F. M. Balfour 11 December 1876
Summary
Asks CD to renew his former offer to propose him for the Royal Society, as Michael Foster, now on the Council, is unable to do so.
| Author: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 26 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10711 |
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 |
From Herbert Spencer 26 April 1873
Summary
Wants to use CD’s support to put pressure on Michael Foster to enable Huxley to take an immediate holiday.
| Author: | Herbert Spencer |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Apr 1873 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 232 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8883 |
Geison, Gerald L. 1978. Michael Foster and the Cambridge School of Physiology: the scientific enterprise in late Victorian society. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Huxley, Thomas Henry. 1858c. On the theory of the vertebrate skull. [Read 17 June 1858.] Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 9 (1857–9): 381–457. [Reprinted in vol. 1 of The scientific memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley, edited by Michael Foster and Edwin Ray Lankester. 4 vols. London: Macmillan. New York: D. Appleton. 1898.]
From J. D. Hooker 15 July 1874
Summary
Asks what can be the meaning of appendages to tips of leaflets of enclosed Acacia or Mimosa.
Is at fibrin today.
Michael Foster suggests coagulation of protoplasm may be diseased, not digestive, symptom.
F. M. Balfour is at Kew today.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 July 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 206–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9548 |
To Anton Dohrn 13 February 1882
Summary
Thanks for AD’s letter.
Owen has published a paper on the brain in relation to the mouth ["On the homology of the conario-hypophysial tract", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 16 (1881–2): 131–49]. CD cannot avoid suspicion that the original idea was borrowed from AD.
F. M. Balfour very ill. His death would be a great loss.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
| Date: | 13 Feb 1882 |
| Classmark: | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 707) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13686 |
From F. M. Balfour [14 December 1876]
Summary
Michael Foster approves of names FMB suggested CD apply to [in proposing FMB to the Royal Society] and adds George Allman, Foster, W. H. Flower, and P. M. Duncan, the only biologists on the Council.
| Author: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [14 Dec 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10713 |
From F. M. Balfour 13 September 1880
Summary
Thanks for letter, which made up for difficulty of his speech [at BAAS meeting, Swansea].
Has met Horace Darwin and wife;
climbed Matterhorn.
| Author: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Sept 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 29 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12712 |
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