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DCP-LETT-9946

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Buckley Litchfield
Date:
24 Apr [1875]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 58373)
Summary:

Sir John Lubbock’s advice on draft of petition on vivisection. Agrees with Lubbock’s opinion that a bill would be more effective – but the more the subject is stirred up, the better.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9947

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ralston Shedden-Ralston
Date:
24 Apr [1875]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 218–219)
Summary:

Asks WRSR to explain a diploma and letter he has received from Russia, so he can return his thanks. [Probably a reference to CD’s being made an honorary fellow of the Society of Naturalists of the Imperial Kazan University in 1875.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9948

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
24 [Apr 1875]
Source of text:
University of the Witwatersrand, Historical Papers Research Archive (A237f, letters to Sir John Burdon Sanderson)
Summary:

CD has seen Sir John [Lubbock] who suggests that L. Playfair would be the best man to present the [vivisection] petition, but thinks the proposed bill much more important and useful. JL also suggests that the bill be given a more humanitarian aspect and that it be presented to both Houses of Parliament.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9948F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
24 Apr [1875]
Source of text:
University of the Witwatersrand, Historical Papers Research Archive (A237f, letters to Sir John Burdon Sanderson)
Summary:

Richard Buckley Litchfield will soon be able to send CD revised copies of the bill.

Will write to Sir John Lubbock to ask if he will present the bill.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9949

From:
Titus Munson Coan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 161: 184
Summary:

Transcribes extracts from Sir James Mackintosh and J. S. Polack on infanticide.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9950

From:
Humphry Sandwith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 177: 30
Summary:

Announces death of W. W. Reade.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9951

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Humphry Sandwith
Date:
26 Apr 1875
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (29 May 1961)
Summary:

Comments on death of W. W. Reade. "… it is best that he should have been relieved from all future suffering, as he was evidently a doomed man".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9952

From:
William Ralston Shedden-Ralston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 176: 4
Summary:

Translates letter [of 30 Mar 1875, missing] to CD from the Society of Naturalists in the Imperial University of Kazan, awarding an honorary membership.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9953

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Harris
Date:
27 Apr 1875
Source of text:
University of California Los Angeles, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections Division (Ms. 10, Letters concerning George Harris’s A Philosophical Treatise on the Nature and Constitution of Man )
Summary:

Briefly answers GH’s query whether animals can perceive any qualities unperceived by man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9953A

From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Apr [1875]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-31)
Summary:

Informs CD that he has taken no further action about the petition concerning animal experimentation on the understanding that it would be presented only if the government introduced an objectionable bill. [See 9948.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9954

From:
Thomas Allen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 159: 52
Summary:

Encloses extract which suggests that CD and friends oppose any restriction on vivisection; asks CD to state his principles. Another bill is being sketched for Cruelty Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9955

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
29 Apr [1875]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 312–312A)
Summary:

Insectivorous plants will soon be ready to print. Does not know what to advise on size of printing. May sell poorly.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9956

From:
Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair of St Andrews
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 174: 48
Summary:

Supports the Vivisection Bill, with a more humanitarian preamble. Working to get it through the House of Lords.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9957

From:
Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 161: 47
Summary:

Acknowledges CD’s letter and enclosure on vivisection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9958

From:
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 97: C9v
Summary:

The Society wishes to introduce a bill to limit vivisection and is arranging a meeting with medical men to discuss the bill.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9958A

From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Apr [1875]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-33)
Summary:

Lyon Playfair approves the bill concerning animal experimentation and would be prepared to introduce it should it be necessary. Believes a bill could be passed by Parliament by September.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9958B

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
30 Apr [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 271.4: 9
Summary:

Sends a chapter [of Insectivorous plants]. Never was there anything so dull, but later chapters will be better. Please correct an error on p. 86.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1485

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
7 April 1875
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.293, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1723

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
12 April 1875
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.2, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1724

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
16 April 1875
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.3, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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