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To Anton Dohrn   15 February 1880

Summary

Thanks AD and the naturalists at the Station for their birthday congratulations.

CD has been awarded the Bressa prize of the Accademia delle Scienze in Turin, and it occurs to him that if the Station wanted some apparatus costing about £100, he would like to pay for it.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
Date:  15 Feb 1880
Classmark:  Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 704)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12483

To Anton Dohrn   27 February 1880

Summary

Leaves decision as to use of his gift to AD.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
Date:  27 Feb 1880
Classmark:  Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 705)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12501

From Anton Dohrn   11 February 1880

Summary

Sends birthday greetings

and the good news of a subvention for the Zoological Station received from the German government. There are now 20 naturalists working at the Station.

Author:  Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  11 Feb 1880
Classmark:  DAR 162: 218
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12471

From Anton Dohrn   21 February 1880

Summary

Thanks CD for his offer. Suggests it be used to start a fund to pay travel expenses of English naturalists who want to come to the Station.

Author:  Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 Feb 1880
Classmark:  DAR 162: 219
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12497

From Anton Dohrn   3 March 1880

Summary

Thanks CD for his cheque for £100. Has told Secretary of BAAS Committee [for the Station], so that he may report it. [See O. J. R. Howarth, The British Association (1931), pp. 196–7.]

Author:  Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  3 Mar 1880
Classmark:  DAR 162: 220
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12508
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