From:
Michael Foster
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 June [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 162, DAR 195.1: 51
Summary:
Sends answers to CD’s queries on expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Michael Foster
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 164: 163
Summary:
Regrets he cannot get to Queen Anne Street, but intends to come to Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Michael Foster
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26 June 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 141–2
Summary:
Has arranged to send CD a bottle of urari [curare]. Describes its effect with strychnine.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Michael Foster
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 164: 164
Summary:
Offers his services for the future.
Working hard at establishing physiology at Cambridge.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Michael Foster
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 165
Summary:
Is organising an appeal for the Naples Zoological Station.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Michael Foster
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 9 May 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 167
Summary:
Encloses a report on state of appeal for Naples Zoological Station.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Michael Foster
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 June [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 166
Summary:
Encloses a report on current status of the appeal for Naples Zoological Station.
Shark embryology.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Michael Foster
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 215/1
Summary:
Account of the fund to help Anton Dohrn’s zoological station at Naples.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Michael Foster
Date:
16 Apr 1871
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/16); DAR 195.1: 11–13
Summary:
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
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Michael Foster
Date:
6 June [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.419)
Summary:
Comments on MF’s "little essay" [see 7800].
Invites him to visit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Michael Foster
Date:
26 June [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.400)
Summary:
Invites MF to visit.
Asks where he can obtain curare for plant experiment.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Michael Foster
Date:
29 [June 1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.401)
Summary:
Thanks him for curare.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Michael Foster
Date:
23 Apr [1874]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 4: 69)
Summary:
Approves of proof [of subscription appeal for Dohrn’s Naples station]. Suggests names.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Michael Foster
Date:
25 Apr [1874]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 4: 71)
Summary:
Has received circulars, and contributions from Lyell and George Busk [for Naples biological station].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Michael Foster
Date:
9 May [1874]
Source of text:
Michael Silverman (dealer) (January 2001)
Summary:
CD is rather disappointed by the money raised for Dohrn. Had hoped for £700–800.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury; Philip Lutley Sclater; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; William Benjamin Carpenter; Michael Foster
Date:
[7 Apr 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C52–3
Summary:
Circular requesting recipients to sign an enclosed [missing] statement [relating to appeal for Naples Zoological Station] if they approve of it.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
