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: 4 hits
- … See letter from Anton Dohrn, 6 April 1874 . CD refers to John Murray and to Edwin Ray …
- … is a parasitic goose barnacle. See letter from Anton Dohrn, 6 April 1874 and n. 7. …
- … 1874 and nn. 14 and 15. 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, …
- … 1874] ). Robby August Kossmann discussed Anelasma squalicola in his article on the anatomy and taxonomy of the Pedunculata ( Kossmann 1873 ). CD’s annotated copy is in the Darwin Pamphlet collection–CUL. For more on Kossmann’s work, see Correspondence vol. 21, letter from Anton Dohrn, …
To Williams & Norgate 16 November 1880
Summary
Although he cannot use the Neapolitan work, his respect for the service to science rendered by the Zoological Station at Naples leads him to subscribe.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Williams & Norgate |
Date: | 16 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (4 November 2010, lot 46) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12823A |
From Anton Dohrn 6 April 1874
Summary
His gratitude for CD’s gift. An account of his difficulties with the Zoological Station and his health.
F. M. Balfour has told him that CD would like to see the question of complemental males in cirripedes studied again. AD would like to enter the field and to study the whole morphological development of cirripedes.
Describes the interest in embryological work in Russia and Germany.
Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Apr 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 214 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9394 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … See letter to Anton Dohrn, 7 March 1874 . CD sent £100 in aid of the Zoological Station at …
- … August 1874 . The photograph has not been found; see, however, the letter to Anton Dohrn, …
- … 1874 ). Dohrn planned to let research space at the Zoological Station to help support its running costs (see Correspondence vol. 21, letter from Anton Dohrn, …
To Michael Foster 9 May [1874]
Summary
CD is rather disappointed by the money raised for Dohrn. Had hoped for £700–800.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Michael Foster |
Date: | 9 May [1874] |
Classmark: | Michael Silverman (dealer) (January 2001) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9452 |
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 A. G. Dew-Smith 17 January 1875
Summary
Sends a letter from Anton Dohrn, which, if CD approves, will be printed with a list of all donors to the Naples Zoological Station. AGD-S has just returned from a visit to the Station and gives an account of its status. German government has made a grant.
Author: | Albert George Dew-Smith |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Jan 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 174 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9822 |
From Michael Foster 17 June [1874]
Summary
Encloses a report on current status of the appeal for Naples Zoological Station.
Shark embryology.
Author: | Michael Foster |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 June [1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 166 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9498 |
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 |
From Anton Dohrn 29 July 1875
Summary
Regrets he is too busy to accept CD’s invitation to visit Down, but could only thank him again for saving the Zoological Station from shipwreck.
Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 217 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10101 |
From William Saville-Kent 25 October 1877
Summary
Enlists CD’s support for a marine biological research institution to be built soon on Jersey.
Author: | William Saville-Kent |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Oct 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11209 |
From Anton Dohrn 18 February 1881
Summary
Belated birthday greetings
and reminiscences of CD’s help to the Station, which continues to prosper. A recent innovation is the establishment of the Zoologische Jahresbericht edited by J. V. Carus.
Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Feb 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 221 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13056 |
To Charles Lyell 31 May [1874]
Summary
Comments on CL’s planned bequest to science. CD would do the same if he had fewer sons.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 31 May [1874] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.442) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9477 |
To Anton Dohrn 7 March 1874
Summary
CD is grieved to hear that AD is overworked and troubled about the Zoological Station. Glad he is now writing to seek assistance from English naturalists. Sends a subscription of £100 and £10 each from George and Francis Darwin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Date: | 7 Mar 1874 |
Classmark: | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 712) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9338 |
To Anton Dohrn [after 7 February 1875]
Summary
The Zoological Station has already resulted in "capital work" by F. M. Balfour and Ray Lankester. G. J. Romanes is coming next year.
CD will be interested in AD’s ancestry of vertebrates. "I shall be very sorry to give up the ascidians."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Date: | [after 7 Feb 1875] |
Classmark: | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 1120) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9852 |
From Michael Foster 30 January 1875
Summary
Account of the fund to help Anton Dohrn’s zoological station at Naples.
Author: | Michael Foster |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Jan 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 215/1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9835F |
To Anton Dohrn 13 February 1874
Summary
Thanks for birthday greetings.
Comments on work at Naples Zoological Station. F. M. Balfour to visit Naples. Would like to send third son [Francis Darwin] to learn art of observing marine animals.
Health indifferent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Date: | 13 Feb 1874 |
Classmark: | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München (Ana 525. Ba 711) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9289 |
From Michael Foster [before 9 May 1874]
Author: | Michael Foster |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 9 May 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 164: 167 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9448 |
From Anton Dohrn 7 September 1871
Summary
Reports on the international support he has obtained for the zoological station [see 7038]. Asks CD whether he will serve on a board of naturalists who would receive an annual report on the station.
Huxley is now convinced by AD’s views on homologies of the nervous system of arthropods, annelids, and vertebrates. Kovalevsky takes the same line but does not go far enough.
Author: | Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Sept 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 207 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7925 |
From T. H. Huxley 31 March 1874
Summary
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 |
From Anton Dohrn 7 February 1875
Summary
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 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1874 (see Correspondence vol. 22, telegram from Anton Dohrn , 12 February 1874). CD and several other British researchers had organised a subscription to raise money for the Zoological Station at Naples, of which Dohrn was the founder and director (see letter …
- … letter from Anton Dohrn, 28 August 1872 ). CD supported the competing theory that vertebrates were descended from ascidians (sea squirts; see Descent 1: 205–6). CD’s copy of Dohrn’s monograph ( Dohrn 1875 ) is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. In his recent work ‘Die Stammesverwandtschaft der Wirbelthiere und Wirbellosen’ (The genealogical relationship of vertebrates and invertebrates; Semper 1874 ), …
letter | (25) |
Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
Dohrn, Anton | (7) |
Foster, Michael | (3) |
Huxley, T. H. | (3) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (16) |
Dohrn, Anton | (4) |
Foster, Michael | (2) |
Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (25) |
Dohrn, Anton | (11) |
Foster, Michael | (5) |
Huxley, T. H. | (4) |
Carus, J. V. | (1) |