From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair of St Andrews
Date:
15 May [1875]
Source of text:
Bonhams (dealers) (10 November 2009); DAR 147: 245
Summary:
Discusses Vivisection Bill.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Discusses Vivisection Bill.
The Government has decided to hold a Royal Commission on vivisection with Lord Cardwell as chairman.
Writes about the Vivisection Bill; there is great fear that it may prevent demonstration dissections on insensible animals.
The Vivisection Bill was defeated because it was repudiated by one of its own fathers: J. S. Burdon Sanderson.
Writes again on the Vivisection Bill, expresses his desire not to ruin the progress of physiology whilst avoiding useless vivisection.