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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