Supports the Vivisection Bill, with a more humanitarian preamble. Working to get it through the House of Lords.
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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Supports the Vivisection Bill, with a more humanitarian preamble. Working to get it through the House of Lords.
Acknowledges CD’s letter and enclosure on vivisection.
The Society wishes to introduce a bill to limit vivisection and is arranging a meeting with medical men to discuss the bill.
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.
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.
Hooker has told her CD is in London. She requests a meeting.
V. O. Kovalevsky has paid for the Expression plates.
Still has 400 copies of Chauncey Wright’s pamphlet
and 450 of Müller’s Facts and arguments for Darwin.