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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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9396

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
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DCP-LETT-9384

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
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DCP-LETT-9425

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

DCP-LETT-9427

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

DCP-LETT-9448

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
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DCP-LETT-9452

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

DCP-LETT-9498

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
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DCP-LETT-9835F

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
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WCP2310

From:
Michael Foster
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
6 March 1875
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 288-289
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP2311

From:
Michael Foster
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
10 March [1875]
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 290-291
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

JHC792

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Michael Foster
Date:
4 November 1887
Source of text:
JDH/1/7 f.18-19, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC794

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Michael Foster
Date:
4 November 1887
Source of text:
JDH/1/7 f.20-21, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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