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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.

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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-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-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-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-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.

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