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From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Nov 1867
Source of text:
DAR 162: 203
Summary:

Pleased by CD’s letter; his object was to apply CD’s principles to the reform of zoology. When this is done, it is wonderful to see how improved one’s understanding of the Crustacea (Arthropoda) becomes. Cites examples.

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From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Dec 1869
Source of text:
DAR 162: 204
Summary:

He has gone through the whole embryology of the Crustacea and has arrived at a pretty well-established genealogy of the whole class; has even tried to write a history of the whole tribe. Finds he cannot adopt the old separation of Orders in the Class; the limits between them are indistinct.

Would like to study embryology of Limulus. Asks CD’s help in obtaining a female specimen.

Outlines his proposal to establish a marine zoological station.

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From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan 1870
Source of text:
DAR 162: 205
Summary:

Thanks CD for his support and for his cautionary advice.

Will send his work on embryology of arthropods as soon as it is finished [Bau und Entwicklung der Arthropoden (1870)].

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From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 206
Summary:

Thanks CD for Variation.

From his work on insect embryology he sees a great parallelism between insect and vertebrate embryology.

The zoological station is slowly advancing.

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From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 207
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.

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From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Feb 1872
Source of text:
DAR 162: 208
Summary:

AD is sorry CD thinks publication of Descent a mistake. The excitement shows it was necessary for someone to speak plainly.

His great difficulties (Italian indolence, dishonesty, hatred) in establishing zoological station. Can at last start construction.

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From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Aug 1872
Source of text:
DAR 162: 209
Summary:

Has reported on the Naples Zoological Station to BAAS meeting at Brighton. Hopes to open it in January. Is at work building up the library by contributions from publishers and naturalists.

Deplores Wallace’s "drifting away" and his association with such men as H. C. Bastian.

Disbelieves in ascidians as our ancestors. Has a substitute he is sure will please CD.

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From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Aug 1872
Source of text:
DAR 162: 210
Summary:

Will call on CD next year, when he will have worked out the embryology of Amphioxus; he believes it is not primitive but a degenerate form of fish. He believes the true ancestors of vertebrates are annelids.

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From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Nov 1872
Source of text:
DAR 162: 211
Summary:

Is amazed at Expression. Like CD’s former works, it contains the material and principles of a new science.

The Zoological Station is making good progress – now has a fine building. Hopes for a stable income from contributions of various governments.

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From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Jan 1873
Source of text:
DAR 162: 212
Summary:

The Naples Zoological Station and its library are growing fast. His life is a constant battle with the municipality, but has managed to make a little progress on vertebrate ancestry and morphology. His views get further away from what is generally accepted.

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From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 June 1873
Source of text:
DAR 162: 213
Summary:

News of Naples Zoological Station developments.

His remarks on physiology in the Academy were aimed at Prof. Ludwig and his school.

The usual "exact" methods in experimental physiology want only a little pushing to put an end to superstition.

Recounts how he had worked out the explanation of Rhizocephala morphology via the Anelasma – an example of both the power of inheritance and the power of genealogical investigation. R. Kossman’s work has now confirmed AD’s explanation.

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From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 172: 1
Summary:

Birthday greetings.

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From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Apr 1874
Source of text:
DAR 162: 214
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.

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From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 215
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.

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From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 216
Summary:

AD is aware of revolutionary character of his pamphlet [Ursprung der Wirbelthiere]. Authorities will not agree with him. Carl Gegenbaur and Ernst Haeckel are opposed. Younger biologists are disposed to accept his views. All he can expect is to put a stop to "the Amphioxus–Ascidian affair, and to open a road for speculation and for investigation on the side of the Annelid-homology".

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From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 July 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 217
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.

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From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 162: 218
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.

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From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 162: 219
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.

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From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 162: 220
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.]

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From:
Felix Anton (Anton) Dohrn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Feb 1881
Source of text:
DAR 162: 221
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.

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