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To Henry Willett   19 April [1874]

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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

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  • … since late 1873 (see letter from Michael Foster, 7 April [1874] and n.  2). No letter from …

To Lawson Tait   24 April 1876

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The Royal Society have returned RLT’s Nepenthes paper and will not have it read because of unfavourable reports from referees.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:  24 Apr 1876
Classmark:  DAR 202: 84
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10470

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  • … J. D. Hooker, 28 January 1876 and n. 2. Michael Foster was the physiological referee; see …

To John Lubbock   8 April [1874]

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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

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  • … men, [7 April 1874], and letter from Michael Foster, 7 April [1874] . The statement has …

To J. S. Burdon Sanderson   15 and 19 April [1875]

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Has written to Lord Derby about the vivisection issue and urged him to speak to the proper members of the Cabinet to prevent "hasty legislation versus science". CD offered to send the sketch of the bill that has been drafted or a small deputation to wait on any member of the Cabinet. Lubbock does not think the petition should be presented as he feels sure that nothing will be done this session.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:  15 and 19 Apr 1875
Classmark:  University of the Witwatersrand, Historical Papers Research Archive (A237f, letters to Sir John Burdon Sanderson)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9934

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  • … home secretary was Richard Assheton Cross . Michael Foster was praelector in physiology at …

To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   9 April 1881

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About Francis Darwin’s application for election to [Royal] Society.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  9 Apr 1881
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 218–19)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13109

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  • … as a fellow of the Royal Society by Michael Foster in January 1881, but he was not elected …

From T. H. Huxley   31 March 1874

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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

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  • … H.  Huxley, 28 March [1874] and n.  3). Michael Foster was attempting to find ways to help …

To J. D. Hooker   5 December 1880

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Thanks for agreeing to propose Frank as F.R.S.

Would have enjoyed discussing Island life.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  5 Dec 1880
Classmark:  DAR 95: 504–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12890

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

To Anton Dohrn   16 April and 9 August 1874

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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

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  • … of London on 22 April ( letter to Michael Foster, 23 April [1874] ). Robby August Kossmann …

From J. T. Gulick   6 August 1872

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Sends synopsis of his paper "On diversity of evolution" [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 11 (1873): 496–505] in which he attempts to show some of the means, other than natural selection, of modification of species.

Author:  John Thomas Gulick
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 Aug 1872
Classmark:  DAR 165: 240
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8453

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  • … the British Association; the other was Michael Foster , not Thomas Thomson ( Report of the …

From T. H. Huxley to Anton Dohrn   15 November 1873

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THH sends to AD a draft, prepared by himself and CD, of a statement for a subscription fund to assist AD’s Naples Zoological Station.

Author:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Addressee:  Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
Date:  15 Nov 1873
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 13: 249)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9412

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  • … CUL (DAR 96: 163). Huxley refers to Michael Foster , Francis Maitland Balfour , and Albert …

From F. M. Balfour   [14] December [1876]

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Lists his chief publications and suggests names of biologists in the Royal Society whom CD might ask to sign his nomination certificate.

Author:  Francis Maitland Balfour
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [14] Dec [1876]
Classmark:  DAR 160: 25
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10712

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  • … M. Balfour, 13 December 1876 and n. 4). Michael Foster was on the Royal Society Council. …

To Lawson Tait   5 May 1876

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CD sends the gist of an extremely negative report from the [Royal Society’s] physiological referee on the value of RLT’s modifications of Brücke’s process for isolating pepsin [see 10470].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:  5 May 1876
Classmark:  Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10497

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  • … 1876] ). The physiological referee was Michael Foster , and CD’s informant was probably …

To J. D. Hooker   16 July 1874

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The Acacia must be Belt’s "Bulls’ horns".

The complexity of Utricularia has driven Frank and CD almost mad. Suspects it is necrophagous, i.e., it cannot digest, but absorbs decaying animal matter.

Foster is certainly in error. Every insect that Drosera catches causes aggregation.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  16 July 1874
Classmark:  DAR 95: 326–7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9550

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  • … than Malacostraca ( Leftwich 1973 ). Michael Foster had suggested that the coagulation of …

To F. M. Balfour   13 December 1876

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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

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  • … Dalton Hooker was president ( ODNB ). Michael Foster was a member of the council of the …

To T. H. Huxley   28 March [1874]

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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

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  • … ed.  was published as a single volume. Michael Foster was attempting to help Anton Dohrn …

From Francis Darwin   [11 or 12 November 1880]

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Sorry he forgot the gardener’s address. Having a very nice time in Cambridge, and is almost finished the bramble paper. Drawing room is upside down, so living in Horace’s working room and dining room. Greek question was lost in the Senate House. George dined there last night. Too muddy to bicycle. Has some stuff for spectacles.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [11 or 12 Nov 1880]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 64
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12807F

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  • … were made in consultation with Michael Foster for use in his physiological laboratory (see …

From Francis Darwin   [1 September 1875 or later]

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Proofs have come. It will be jolly coming down to Southampton.

Author:  Francis Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [1 Sept 1875 or later]
Classmark:  DAR 274.1: 32
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10153F

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  • … Darwin, [31 August 1875 or later] ). Michael Foster had suggested that Francis work on the …

From J. D. Hooker   [18 April 1876]

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JDH has heard from Asa Gray, who approves of the botany primer [Botany (1876)].

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [18 Apr 1876]
Classmark:  DAR 104: 49–50
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10282

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  • … Tait, 24 April 1876 ). Evidently Michael Foster was the physiological one. For Hooker’s …

To J. S. Burdon Sanderson   30 April [1876]

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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

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  • … Turner, 28 March [1871] , and letter to Michael Foster, 16 April 1871 ). In Expression , …

From J. H. Gilbert   22 February 1881

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The laboratory has scarcely any experimental evidence on acidity of humus soil and earthworm excreta. Refers CD to some sources of information.

Author:  Joseph Henry Gilbert
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  22 Feb 1881
Classmark:  DAR 165: 43
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13063

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  • … itself—uric acid for example? —perhaps Michael Foster would give an answer on this point— …
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