Sends his thoughts on [vivisection] petition. Thinks they might make petition more talked about. Leaves it to J. Paget, Burdon Sanderson, and CD to deal with.
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Sends his thoughts on [vivisection] petition. Thinks they might make petition more talked about. Leaves it to J. Paget, Burdon Sanderson, and CD to deal with.
Considers the question of recognised lecturers being allowed a licence to perform animal experiments without having to obtain a certificate of fitness.
Will write to Strickland. Asks whether name has already been put down for Athenaeum.
Sends reference to Codrington paper on gravels ["The superficial deposits of the south of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 26 (1870): 3–28]. Comments on local gravels in railway cutting and the violent agency of their removal from hills.
Payne will send vine cuttings.
Thomas Belt has been visiting; they are to meet Huxley.
He is moved by denudation of the Weald.
Expresses concern about the "coolness" between CD and [G. S.] Ffinden in regard to the Infant School.
Likes draft of petition on vivisection. Asks whether phrase "and the lower animals" might not be added at end.
Sends the Memorial [concerning animal experimentation].
Arrangements for a visit to Down.
Sends last part of his book [Ulteriori observazioni sulla dicogamia (1868–74)] [osservazioni!?] and describes contents.
JM expresses willingness to publish CD’s Climbing plants [2d ed.].
Discusses the handling of the Memorial concerning animal experimentation.
Discusses the best means of presenting the draft bill about animal experimentation. Suggests that CD inform Lord Derby that scientific men concurred with the bill that had been prepared. [See 9923.]
Sends CD an account of his career since leaving the Beagle.
Encloses draft bill about vivisection; CD and friends may have influence enough to get it introduced in Commons or Lords; TA and the Cruelty Society do not. The Society, however, can pay for preparation of bill.
Is sending some seeds of sweetpeas, which George [Darwin] said CD would plant for him.
Sends CD his latest treatise, in which he discusses the origin of life ["Über die Physiologische Verbrennung in den lebendigen Organismen", Arch. Gesammte Physiol. 10 (1875): 251–367].
Agrees that CD should write to Lord Derby to say that a bill on animal experimentation was being prepared and that the government should not comment at this stage. [See 9933.] Ridicules the idea of using inspectors. Distinguishes between dissection and vivisection.
Approves vivisection memorial.
Lyon Playfair supports his request for Kew assistant.
Asks whether CD has botanical suggestions for Arctic expedition.
Approves draft of vivisection bill. Huxley strongly in favour of a bill.
Knows of the pitchers of one species of Dischidia.