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DCP-LETT-13127

From:
Werner Adolf Friedrich Wilhelm (Werner) von Voigts-Rhetz
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 18 Apr 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 180: 14
Summary:

On vivisection. Has read CD’s letter to Frithiof Holmgren and answers the points raised in it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13128

From:
Thomas Dixon Spain
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Apr 1881
Source of text:
DAR 201: 37
Summary:

Requests that CD lecture on evolution in Lichfield.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13129

From:
George Richard Jesse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Apr 1881
Source of text:
DAR 168: 60; DAR 168: 62/1 and 62/2
Summary:

Discusses vivisection and contradicts CD’s defence of English physiologists.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13130

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
21 Apr [1881]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 220–1)
Summary:

Wants Trifolium seed.

Has been rereading WTT-D’s letters on "bloom".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13131

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Richard Jesse
Date:
21 Apr 1881
Source of text:
DAR 185: 33
Summary:

Vivisection; CD’s exchange with Holmgren.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13132

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
The Times
Date:
21 Apr [1881]
Source of text:
The Times , 22 April 1881, p. 11
Summary:

Replies to F. P. Cobbe’s letter [Times 19 Apr 1881] accusing CD of having misinformed his Swedish correspondent about the findings of the Royal Commission on vivisection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13133

From:
George Richard Jesse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr 1881
Source of text:
DAR 168: 61
Summary:

Asks if he may publish CD’s reply to his previous letter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13134

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr [1881]
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 116
Summary:

Only more sensitive seedlings respond to flashing light.

CD’s letter to Times ["On vivisection", 22 Apr 1881] in every way admirable.

GJR to be Zoological Secretary of Linnean Society.

Has decided on arrangement of material for his books Animal intelligence [1882]

and Mental evolution in animals [1883].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13135

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Dixon Spain
Date:
23 Apr 1881
Source of text:
Uppsala University Library: Manuscripts and Music (Waller Ms gb-00524)
Summary:

Cannot give lecture.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13136

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Richard Jesse
Date:
23 Apr 1881
Source of text:
DAR 185: 34
Summary:

CD will not permit publication of his previous letter on vivisection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13137

From:
Irving Prescott Bishop
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Apr 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 188
Summary:

Gives case of the inheritance of a tendency to turn grey at a particular age,

and, from his own family, details of the inheritance of a thumb deformity that apparently originated with his grandfather.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13138

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
25 Apr 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.589)
Summary:

Comments on GJR’s letter in the Times [25 Apr 1881] concerning vivisection. Mentions activity of anti-vivisectionists, G. R. Jesse and F. P. Cobbe.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13138F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Carmichael Lyell
Date:
25 Apr 1881
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:

Thanks for gift of JCL’s book on pigeons (J. C. Lyell 1881).

Declines to endorse it, because he lacks the time to read it with sufficient care.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13139

From:
George Richard Jesse
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Apr 1881
Source of text:
DAR 168: 62
Summary:

Regrets CD will not allow publication of his letter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13140

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Eliot Norton
Date:
30 Apr 1881
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1598)
Summary:

Sends some anecdotal material about Benjamin Franklin, whom his father knew while studying medicine in Paris.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13141A

From:
William Ewart Gladstone
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Apr 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 44544: 165)
Summary:

CD is invited to allow his name to be suggested for the vacancy in the Trust of the British Museum caused by the death of Lord Beaconsfield. [See 13142.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13141G

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24 Apr 1881]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 102)
Summary:

Sends observations of wormcasts at Malvern. Describes stay at Abinger.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13161

From:
Alphons Sigismund (Alphons) von Engelhardt, Baron von Engelhardt-Schnellenstein
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Apr [1881?]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 100
Summary:

A student and an admirer of CD wishes to have a few lines from him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13162

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alphons Sigismund (Alphons) von Engelhardt, Baron von Engelhardt-Schnellenstein
Date:
[after 15 Apr 1881?]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 100v
Summary:

Wishes AE every success in his scientific studies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13110

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
10 Apr 1881
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 383–4)
Summary:

Asks for quick decision on publication [of Earthworms]. Does not care whether it is published on commission or on usual terms, but wants it published in a hurry. Cannot guess at sales.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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