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DCP-LETT-9933

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.

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DCP-LETT-9958B

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.

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DCP-LETT-9961

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.

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DCP-LETT-9965

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leopold Friedrich August (August) Weismann
Date:
1 and 4 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 148: 344
Summary:

Comments on AW’s work [Studien zur Descendenz-Theorie, vol. 1 (1875)].

On seasonal dimorphism in Lepidoptera in relation to sexual selection.

Discusses evolutionary reversion.

Comments on birds’ avoiding brightly coloured caterpillars. Offers references on subject.

Alpheus Hyatt says Franz Hilgendorf mistaken [about Planorbis multiformis].

Quotes from letter from J. J. Weir on birds’ rejection of brightly-coloured caterpillars.

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DCP-LETT-9979

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.

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DCP-LETT-9980

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:
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DCP-LETT-9983

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.

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DCP-LETT-9984

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].

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DCP-LETT-9989

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
23 May [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C27
Summary:

Discusses the price to be charged to Appleton’s for the plates of Insectivorous plants.

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DCP-LETT-10027

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Linnean Society
Date:
23 June 1875
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (SP.917)
Summary:

Gives a report on a paper by Thomas Powell on coral islands ["Notes on the nature and productions of several atolls of the Tokelan, Ellice, and Gilbert Groups, South Pacific", read 15 Apr 1875, not published].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10267

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
20 Nov 1875
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 318–19)
Summary:

Greatly pleased at sale [of Climbing plants].

Points out a discrepancy in their records of copies of Origin printed.

500 more copies of Insectivorous plants should last forever.

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DCP-LETT-10269

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
22 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 127–128)
Summary:

Thanks JVC for corrections in Insectivorous plants. Explains confusion of fluid and dry measures. The work has sold well in England.

Repeats suggestion that JVC employ someone to translate Climbing plants under his supervision.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10284

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
1 Dec [1875]
Source of text:
Josh B. Rosenblum (private collection)
Summary:

Abstract sent to the Royal Society. It seems to CD "uncommonly clear and well-done".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13889B

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
3 Feb [1875-82]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 124
Summary:

Asks that enclosed letter be posted for him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9959

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Date:
3 May 1875
Source of text:
Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles (dealers) (November 2011)
Summary:

Regrets he cannot attend proposed meeting [on vivisection]. Hopes legislation may be passed limiting vivisection while not interfering with the progress of physiology.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9986

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.

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