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From G. H. Darwin   [22 January 1882]

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Writes of his work and a paper accepted for publication in the Philosophical Transactions [? "Stresses caused in the interior of the earth", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 173 (1883): 187–230].

Gives news of friends.

Author:  George Howard Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [22 Jan 1882]
Classmark:  DAR 210.2: 102
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13636

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  • … Society of London 173 (1882): 187–230. Foster, Michael and Sedgwick, Adam, eds. 1885. The …
  • … and Sedgwick eds. 1885 , 1: 19). Michael Foster , Alice Blanche Balfour , and Gerald …

Foster, Michael (1836–1907)

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  • Michael Foster 1836–1907 Physiologist and politician. BA, University College, London, …

Aveling, E. B. (1849–98)

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  • … 1870. Assistant to the physiologist Michael Foster in Cambridge. Teacher of elementary …

From G. H. Darwin   13 July 1879

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Sorry to hear Henrietta’s opinion of the [Erasmus Darwin] proofs. GHD did not think it dull. He makes some suggestions.

Author:  George Howard Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 July 1879
Classmark:  DAR 210.2: 80
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12154

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  • … with Dew all day. They went over to Michael Foster’s to dinner yesterday. There does’nt …
  • … Horace Darwin and Albert George Dew-Smith . Michael Foster was praelector in physiology at …

To J. D. Hooker   14 April [1875]

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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

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  • … Huxley , John Simon , James Paget , and Michael Foster . Edward Henry Stanley , the earl …
  • … Paget, & almost certainly I think by Michael Foster    Sanderson Simon & Paget wish me to …

From John Tyndall   21 April 1873

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[Sir Joseph?] Whitworth’s contribution brings total to over £2000. Wishes CD could be persuaded to come to lunch with Huxley and Emerson.

Author:  John Tyndall
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 Apr 1873
Classmark:  DAR 106: C15
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8870

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  • … Aberdeen ( letter from T.  H.  Huxley to Michael Foster, 22 April 1873 ( Dawson 1946 , …

Thompson, D’A. W. (1860–1948)

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  • … Cambridge University. Worked with Michael Foster and F. M. Balfour. Professor of biology ( …

From F. M. Balfour   11 November 1873

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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

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  • … Balfour refers to Thomas Henry Huxley , Michael Foster , and Albert George Dew-Smith . For …

To J. S. Burdon Sanderson   29 March 1873

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Reports that he has not received JSBS’s book on histology and physiology [Sanderson ed., Handbook for the physiological laboratory (1873)], which Edward Emmanuel Klein told CD’s son was to be sent. He asks for information so that he may thank Dr Klein. [Klein and Michael Foster were co-authors with JSBS.]

He has returned the Gazette to Dr T. L. Brunton. [See 8825.]

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:  29 Mar 1873
Classmark:  DAR 147: 406
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8829A

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  • … that he may thank Dr Klein. [Klein and Michael Foster were co-authors with JSBS. ] He has …

To W. W. Baxter   8 August [1871]

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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

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  • … on insectivorous plants; see letter to Michael Foster, 26 June [1871] and n.  4. The …

To William Crookes   9 May [1874]

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Regrets he cannot comply with request because of his work and poor health.

Delighted to have seen correspondent’s "wonderful experiment" at Royal Society.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Crookes
Date:  9 May [1874]
Classmark:  Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9449

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  • … Crookes 1873 ; soirée programme; see also letter to Michael Foster, 23 April [1874] ). …

To A. G. Dew-Smith   19 January [1875]

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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

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  • … of the circular, see the letter from Michael Foster, 30 January 1875 ; it did include a …

To J. D. Hooker   16 March [1879]

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Frank’s reasons for not accepting the Cambridge Examinership.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  16 Mar [1879]
Classmark:  DAR 95: 481–2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11939

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  • … received a letter on the subject from Michael Foster (praelector in physiology at Trinity …

From P. H. Pye-Smith   19 December 1881

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Urges CD to write on vivisection for Nineteenth Century or suggest a competent scientific author. Forming an association to forward interests of vivisectionists.

Author:  Philip Henry Pye-Smith
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 Dec 1881
Classmark:  DAR 174: 82
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13566

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  • … Society . John Scott Burdon Sanderson , Michael Foster , Thomas Lauder Brunton , and Pye- …
  • … to help. We (Burdon Sanderson, Michael Foster Brunton & myself) have thought among others …

To J. D. Hooker   1 December 1880

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Responds, with some embarrassment, to JDH’s caution on Frank’s F.R.S. prospects.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  1 Dec 1880
Classmark:  DAR 95: 502–3
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12880

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  • … In the event, Francis was proposed by Michael Foster in January 1881 and elected in June …

To J. D. Hooker   20 December 1880

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On Wallace’s pension and Frank’s F.R.S.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  20 Dec 1880
Classmark:  DAR 95: 507–8
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12927

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  • … in the event, Francis was proposed by Michael Foster in January 1881 and elected in June …

To G. H. Darwin   15 November [1873]

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CD writes about organising a subscription for Dohrn’s Zoological Station at Naples. Has drawn up a draft circular for naturalists to sign to show their support for the Station.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Howard Darwin
Date:  15 Nov [1873]
Classmark:  National Records of Scotland (GD433/2/103A/1/1–2)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9142

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  • … Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil was the third marquess of Salisbury. Michael Foster . …

From G. H. Darwin   27 July 1880

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Asks CD’s advice on how to answer a letter requesting his endorsement of Wrigley, his former teacher at Clapham School.

Author:  George Howard Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  27 July 1880
Classmark:  DAR 64.2: 94; DAR 210.2: 85
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12668

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  • … Bibliography Geison, Gerald L. 1978. Michael Foster and the Cambridge School of …

To John Tyndall   18 April [1873]

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The Huxley fund amounts to £1955. CD trembles about THH’s answer.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Tyndall
Date:  18 Apr [1873]
Classmark:  DAR 261.8: 15 (EH 88205953)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8867

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  • … in Aberdeen ( letter from T.  H.  Huxley to Michael Foster, 22 April 1873 ( Dawson  1946 , …

To T. H. Huxley   28 April 1873

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Lady Lyell’s death.

Sends names of donors of gift to THH.

The Edinburgh Review has a critical article against CD, THH, Tyndall, and H. Spencer [see 8935]. Thinks Forbes reference not worth answering.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:  28 Apr 1873
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 299)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8887

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  • … physician. CD refers to John Lubbock and Michael Foster . See letter from Herbert Spencer, …
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