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: 4 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Lubbock, John Sclater, P. L. Lyell, Charles Carpenter, W. B. Foster, Michael …
- … Philip Lutley Sclater Charles Lyell, 1st baronet William Benjamin Carpenter Michael Foster …
- … P. L. Sclater, Charles Lyell, W. B. Carpenter, and Michael Foster [7 April 1874] …
- … Charles Lyell . William Benjamin Carpenter lived at 56 Regent’s Park Road, London ( Post Office London directory 1875). The enclosure, an appeal for the Zoological Station at Naples, has not been found; see, however, the letter from Michael Foster, …
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 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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Charles Lyell, 24 April 1874 . CD stayed with Richard Buckley and Henrietta Emma Litchfield in London from Tuesday 21 to Wednesday 29 April (‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). Foster had prepared a printed appeal for the Zoological Station at Naples for circulation to prospective subscribers (see letter to Michael …
To T. H. Huxley 28 April 1873
Summary
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 |
To Anton Dohrn 16 April and 9 August 1874
Summary
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Charles Lyell , John Lubbock , and Philip Lutley Sclater . See letter to John Lubbock, 8 April [1874] . Francis Maitland Balfour had sent a photograph of the Zoological Station at Naples (see letter from Anton Dohrn, 6 April 1874 ). CD attended the soirée at the Royal Society of London on 22 April ( letter to Michael Foster, …
| letter | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Foster, Michael | (3) |
| Carpenter, W. B. | (1) |
| Dohrn, Anton | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Lubbock, John | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Foster, Michael | (3) |
| Carpenter, W. B. | (1) |
| Dohrn, Anton | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
