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From Anton Dohrn   7 February 1875

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Thanks to CD’s help Zoological Station has passed a crisis and is now flourishing.

Is writing pamphlet on "the origin of vertebrates and the principle of succession of functions" [see 9991 and 10003]. It is likely CD will not be pleased with it, but he thinks he must now, after seven years, bring it out. Seeks to open the way for a new series of theoretical questions.

Author:  Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  7 Feb 1875
Classmark:  DAR 162: 215
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9845

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  • … and director (see letter from Michael Foster, 30 January 1875 ). Dohrn had received a …

To E. H. Stanley   15 April 1875

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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

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  • … Edinburgh were George Rolleston , Michael Foster , and Robert Christison , respectively ( …

From G. J. Romanes   1 June 1876

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Anticipates reading Haeckel’s Perigenesis der Plastidule [1876].

Physiologists will think vivisection bill stringent.

Honorary memberships of Physiological Society created expressly to honour CD.

Working hard at jellyfish just now. Needs snake poison.

Author:  George John Romanes
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 June 1876
Classmark:  E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 52–4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10524

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  • … 23). John Scott Burdon Sanderson and Michael Foster . Romanes did not write on vivisection …

From G. H. Darwin   29 July 1874

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After taking advice he has decided to write an explicit denial and short account of his essay and send it to the Quarterly Review.

Author:  George Howard Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  29 July 1874
Classmark:  DAR 210.2: 37
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9575

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  • … yest. & comes back on Friday. I met Michael Foster in the court just now with one of the …

From T. H. Huxley   3 December 1873

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A letter from Anton Dohrn declines the proposed fund [that THH and others suggested be raised in England for marine biological station at Naples].

Hooker’s inaugural as President of Royal Society a success.

R. Owen distinguished himself in his way.

Author:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 Dec 1873
Classmark:  DAR 166: 330; Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 13: 252)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9169

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  • … p.  16). William George Armstrong . Michael Foster . Foster had tried to persuade the …

From G. H. Darwin   31 May 1876

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His paper on the alterations of the poles and changes in level of continents is in shape.

Sends Cambridge news.

Author:  George Howard Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  31 May 1876
Classmark:  DAR 210.2: 53
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10519

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  • … bill, see French 1975 , pp. 115–16. Michael Foster was praelector in physiology at Trinity …

From G. H. Darwin   18 October 1874

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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

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  • … earlier in the year (see letter from Michael Foster, 7 April [1874] ). Thomas Henry Huxley …

From T. H. Huxley   6 March 1874

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Has heard from Dohrn about his financial problems. Asks CD’s advice on what to do.

THH’s article in Contemporary Review ["Universities: actual and ideal" (1874), Collected essays, vol. 3 (1894)].

Author:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 Mar 1874
Classmark:  DAR 103: 193–4; Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (Huxley: 13.256, 13.258)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9336

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  • … Smith , Cambridge students of Michael Foster , were the first two British physiologists to …

From T. H. Huxley   21 November 1877

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He said nothing in his tribute to CD that was not strictly accurate. Has written out a version as well as he can recollect it and will send CD a copy.

Author:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 Nov 1877
Classmark:  DAR 166: 348
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11244

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  • … Anne Huxley was staying with Michael and Margaret Sarah Foster at Great Shelford, near …
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