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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Encloses two questions he hopes MF can answer: the mechanism of transmission by nerves; and the mechanism by which contemplating part of our body, we become conscious of its existence
Comments on MF’s "little essay" [see 7800].
Invites him to visit.
Invites MF to visit.
Asks where he can obtain curare for plant experiment.
Thanks him for curare.
Approves of proof [of subscription appeal for Dohrn’s Naples station]. Suggests names.
Has received circulars, and contributions from Lyell and George Busk [for Naples biological station].
CD is rather disappointed by the money raised for Dohrn. Had hoped for £700–800.
Sends answers to CD’s queries on expression.
Regrets he cannot get to Queen Anne Street, but intends to come to Down.
Has arranged to send CD a bottle of urari [curare]. Describes its effect with strychnine.
Offers his services for the future.
Working hard at establishing physiology at Cambridge.
Is organising an appeal for the Naples Zoological Station.
Encloses a report on state of appeal for Naples Zoological Station.
Encloses a report on current status of the appeal for Naples Zoological Station.
Shark embryology.
Account of the fund to help Anton Dohrn’s zoological station at Naples.
Circular requesting recipients to sign an enclosed [missing] statement [relating to appeal for Naples Zoological Station] if they approve of it.
