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DCP-LETT-7689G

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

DCP-LETT-7800

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
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DCP-LETT-7803

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

DCP-LETT-7831

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
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DCP-LETT-7832

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

DCP-LETT-7834

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
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DCP-LETT-7837

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

DCP-LETT-7957

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.

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