From:
Edward Burnett Tylor
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 178: 204
Summary:
EBT’s brother, Alfred Tylor, wishes to visit CD with George Young.
AT’s "pluvial period" theory.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
5 May 1875
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42153 f. 50)
Summary:
Agrees not to receive his share of sales on Insectivorous plants until 750 or 800 copies are sold. 1250 to be printed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 May [1875]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-34)
Summary:
Informs CD that Lyon Playfair would introduce the bill in the House of Commons, and that Lord Cardwell and Lord Shaftesbury had agreed to support it, the former introducing the bill in the House of Lords.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 167: 32
Summary:
Writes about a white rabbit which is turning fawn-coloured,
and about Scottish education.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Dwight Whitney
Date:
8 May 1875
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (William Dwight Whitney Family Papers (MS 555): Box 22, folder 600 1875 May 6-10)
Summary:
Hopes WDW will come to Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 May 1875]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-37)
Summary:
Further discussion of the introduction of a bill by Lyon Playfair on animal experimentation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
William Dwight Whitney
Date:
9 May [1875]
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (William Dwight Whitney Family Papers (MS 555): Box 22, folder 600 1875 May 6-10)
Summary:
CD asks her to tell him how sorry he is not to be there to see Whitney today. He hopes that Whitney will give him another chance when next in England.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
10 May [1875]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
On colour changes in rabbits. Suspects JBI’s is of impure origin.
Is correcting proof of Insectivorous plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Crowther Brown
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 160: 324
Summary:
Notes absence of material on fossil coral reefs in CD’s 2d edition [Coral reefs (1874)]. Has been collecting specimens from a fossil reef near his home for four years; gave many to Oxford.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 174: 8
Summary:
A letter introducing T. F. Burgers, President of the Transvaal Republic.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas François Burgers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 97: C11v
Summary:
Would like to call on CD if convenient.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas François Burgers
Date:
[after 13 May 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C11r
Summary:
Proposes that TFB visit in about a week; at present CD is unwell.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
From:
G. Chiantore
To:
John Murray
Date:
18 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 451
Summary:
Editor of L’Unione, Turin, would publish an Italian edition of Variation if the clichés of the English edition were made available at not more than £10.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederic Francis Hallett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 89
Summary:
Sends his paper to show his priority over John Le Couteur. Claims discovery of the "law of development" of cereals.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow
Date:
18 May [1875 or 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C25
Summary:
CD has misplaced the annual audited balance sheet for the Down Friendly Society and wonders whether he has sent it to his correspondent in error.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederic Francis Hallett
Date:
[19 or 20 May 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C26
Summary:
Thanks FFH for his note and enclosure [see 9982]. Quotes from Le Couteur [On … wheat (1836)?] to justify statements made in Variation [1868].
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 340
Summary:
Lyon Playfair’s bill [on vivisection] is unacceptable to all teachers of physiology. It prohibits dissections for demonstrations to students. He will have to repudiate it. Asks CD’s advice.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
21 May 1875
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 316)
Summary:
CD believes Playfair’s bill would not restrict demonstrations under anaesthetic.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair of St Andrews
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 174: 49
Summary:
The Government has decided to hold a Royal Commission on vivisection with Lord Cardwell as chairman.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project