From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
15 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 369–71
Summary:
Hopes JDH will beat Sir Douglas Galton.
Continues to work on insectivorous plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 372–3
Summary:
Astonished at JDH’s success versus Galton
and his attack on Murray is superb. Has written a formal letter to Mivart enumerating his offences.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
27 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A48–53
Summary:
Sends suggestions for observations on glacial phenomena that might be made on the [Polar] expedition [of H. M. S. Alert and Discovery, 1875–6].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 Feb [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 374–6
Summary:
Is provoked by trouble he is having writing Insectivorous plants.
Curious case of an unknown form of Glaucium in earth covered with slag for 1400 years.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
10 [Feb 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 44
Summary:
J. T. Knowles [editor of Contemp. Rev.] hopes W. D. Whitney’s article will be a long one.
CD is sorry about GHD’s account of his low spirits. "I know well the feeling of life being objectless & all being vanity of vanities."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Belt
Date:
24 Feb 1875
Source of text:
DAR 143: 81
Summary:
Will not come to London for some weeks. Hopes to make TB’s acquaintance.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Feb [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 379–81
Summary:
CD on his memory of Lyell. Deeply rejoices that he is to be buried in Westminster Abbey.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 Mar [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 382–3
Summary:
Has at last finished Insectivorous plants
and is rewriting Climbing plants.
W. W. Ouless has finished his picture of CD for Academy.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Belt
Date:
31 Mar [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 82
Summary:
Has just come to London. Invites TB to luncheon.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell
Date:
[before 29 Apr 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C17
Summary:
Believes correspondent is interested in how physiologists regard the question of legislating on vivisection. He forwards the sketch of a bill drawn up by physiologists for that purpose.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair of St Andrews
Date:
[before 29 Apr 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C18
Summary:
Sends a sketch of a bill on vivisection that he understands LP wishes to see.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[2 Apr 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 140
Summary:
About elections to [an unspecified] club.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
2 [Apr 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 45
Summary:
CD recounts events of the April-fool’s day séance at Hensleigh [Wedgwood]’s. Asks GHD to find out whether Sidgwick’s account of it agrees with what he has heard. "What rubbish the whole does seem to be!"
Contributor:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger
Date:
[after 14 Apr 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C10
Summary:
Thanks EFWP for sending him his treatise.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Henry Stanley, 15th earl of Derby
Date:
15 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 97: C22–4
Summary:
CD has helped leading physiologists to prepare a draft bill for legislation with regard to vivisection, and he hopes Lord Derby will support the bill and mention it to ministers of the Cabinet. Has heard that other groups are preparing bills for the same purpose, and feels it important that the science of physiology be protected as well as animals.
Contributor:
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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:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Assheton Cross, Viscount Cross of Broughton in Furness
Date:
May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 97: C19–21
Summary:
Sends a copy of the draft vivisection bill [see 9933] and hopes that it may be approved of and supported by the Government.
Contributor:
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Author
Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Hooker, J. D.19
- Darwin, G. H.6
- Tait, Lawson6
- Cohn, F. J.4
- Darwin, Francis4
- Huxley, T. H.4
- Bennett, A. W.3
- Weir, J. J.3
- Belt, Thomas2
- Cardwell, Edward2
- Cooke, R. F.2
- Darwin, W. E.2
- John Murray2
- Linnean Society2
- Ogle, William2
- Playfair, Lyon2
- Unidentified2
- Wallace, A. R.2
- Weismann, August2
- Bergson, Edouard1
- Buckley, A. B.1
- Burgers, T. F.1
- Carus, J. V.1
- Crichton-Browne, James1
- Cross, R. A.1
- Darwin, H. E.1
- Gray, Asa1
- Hallett, F. F.1
- Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften1
- Litchfield, H. E.1
- Lubbock, John1
- Ludlow, J. M. F.1
- Max Müller, Friedrich1
- Meehan, Thomas1
- Mivart, S. G. J.1
- Murray, John (b)1
- Müller, Hermann1
- Nevill, D. F.1
- Oliver, Daniel1
- Pflüger, E. F. W.1
- Price, John1
- Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals1
- Scott, W. H.1
- Secretary of the Royal Commission on vivisection1
- Stanley, E. H.1
- Stokes, G. G.1
- Tyndall, John1
- Walpole, D. F.1
Document type
Repository
- Cambridge University Library
- American Philosophical Society1
- Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives, Imperial College1
- John Murray Archive, National Library of Scotland1
- Josh B. Rosenblum (private collection)1
- Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums1
- Linnean Society of London1
- Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz1
- The British Library1