From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[5 Apr 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 141
Summary:
Another message about club elections.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Apr [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 198: 128
Summary:
Expresses concern about the "coolness" between CD and [G. S.] Ffinden in regard to the Infant School.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
7 Apr [1875]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.465)
Summary:
Is sending plants from cut-leaved vine.
Invites GJR to visit.
"When in presence of my ladies do not talk about experiments on animals."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 22
Summary:
Likes draft of petition on vivisection. Asks whether phrase "and the lower animals" might not be added at end.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr [1875]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-30)
Summary:
Sends the Memorial [concerning animal experimentation].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
8 Apr [1875-82]
Source of text:
Jane da Mosto (private collection)
Summary:
Explains that there is no need for the addressee to apologise.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 6
Summary:
Arrangements for a visit to Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 152
Summary:
Sends last part of his book [Ulteriori observazioni sulla dicogamia (1868–74)] [osservazioni!?] and describes contents.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
8 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 146: 129
Summary:
Writes regarding local difficulties concerning Down School and the setting up of a reading-room; his strained relationship with G. S. ffinden following some misunderstanding.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Apr [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 447
Summary:
JM expresses willingness to publish CD’s Climbing plants [2d ed.].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
10 Apr [1875]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 f. 313)
Summary:
Is glad JM will publish [Climbing plants] as a separate little book. Some people have been much interested in it, though it has been read by very few.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Apr 1875
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-40)
Summary:
Discusses the handling of the Memorial concerning animal experimentation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
[11 Apr 1875]
Source of text:
University of the Witwatersrand, Historical Papers Research Archive (A237f, letters to Sir John Burdon Sanderson)
Summary:
"We have not a day to lose if our [Vivisection] Bill or our petition is to do any good". Reports on the activities of the opposition and the attitude of politicians on the subject. Believes a meeting with a minister should be arranged and thinks Lord Derby would be a good man. "All will depend on some half-dozen or 9 or 12 men agreeing on the bill."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Apr [1875]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-29)
Summary:
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.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Buckley Litchfield
Date:
[24 Apr 1875]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 58373)
Summary:
On the petition by scientists regarding vivisection and plans for presenting it in Parliament.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Burgess
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 106: D17–18
Summary:
Sends CD an account of his career since leaving the Beagle.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Allen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 159: 51
Summary:
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 Apr [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 384–5
Summary:
CD and others now think it advisable to go further than a petition on vivisection, and a bill has been drafted.
F. Delpino’s pamphlet on pitchers ["Sulle pianti a bicchieri", Nuovo G. Bot. Ital. 3 (1871): 174–6].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A78
Summary:
Is sending some seeds of sweetpeas, which George [Darwin] said CD would plant for him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 97: C10
Summary:
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].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Author
Addressee
Correspondent
Date
Document type
Repository
- Alexander Turnbull Library1
- American Philosophical Society1
- Cambridge University Library51
- Jane da Mosto (private collection)1
- John Murray Archive, National Library of Scotland2
- Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney2
- Natural History Museum and Archives1
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond5
- Sotheby's (dealers)1
- Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz2
- The British Library2
- University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections8
- University of California Los Angeles, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections Division1
- University of the Witwatersrand Historical Papers6
- FEWER