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DCP-LETT-13115

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frithiof Holmgren
Date:
[14] Apr 1881
Source of text:
Uppsala University Library (Frithiof Holmgren Collection)
Summary:

CD gives his opinion on vivisection with the understanding that the whole letter will be published. Worked for Act of Parliament, but disapproves of the one passed. CD convinced English physiologists do not perform cruel experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0015

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[9 April 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.3: 7
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FL-0016

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[16 April 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.3: 8
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FL-0018

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, G.H.
Date:
[29 April 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.3: 10
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FL-0901

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[10] April 1881
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 260
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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FL-0902

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[11] April 1881
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 261
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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FL-0903

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[12 April 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 262
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-13105

From:
Mary (Marie) McElroy
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Apr 1881
Source of text:
DAR 201: 23
Summary:

Asks whether blue eyes are peculiar to the human species.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13108

From:
Frithiof Holmgren
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 256
Summary:

Swedish anti-vivisectionists are claiming CD is opposed to animal experiments; Holmgren wishes CD to state his position.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13111

From:
Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Apr 1881
Source of text:
DAR 177: 38
Summary:

Sends GdeS and A. F. Marion, L’évolution du règne végétal. Les cryptogames [1881].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13112

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Apr 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 574
Summary:

Murray’s will be happy to publish [Earthworms] on usual terms of two-thirds profits.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13116

From:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr 1881
Source of text:
DAR 181: 117
Summary:

Sends his last report on Russian wheat varieties [Gard. Chron. n.s. 15 (1881): 430–2].

Considers which part of grass embryo is the cotyledon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13120

From:
Ernst L. Zeuschner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Apr 1881
Source of text:
DAR 184: 8
Summary:

Sends pamphlet showing that magnetism is the fundamental element by which all is created and maintained.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13121

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
16 Apr 1881
Source of text:
DAR 148: 372
Summary:

Obliged for extract from Gardeners’ Chronicle about Russian wheat. "It is a capital instance of one var. gradually beating out another."

Cannot remember where he put G. Henslow’s note [on the cotyledon of grass embryos].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13125

From:
Katherine W. Savage (Kate) Barnes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Apr 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 43
Summary:

Announces CD’s election as an Honorary Corresponding Member of the Club.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13126

From:
Sara Helen Biggs (Helen) (Biggs) Taylor
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Apr 1881
Source of text:
DAR 178: 54
Summary:

Sends "Ginger Beer Plant", a seed that assists the fermentation of ginger beer. [Also enclosed are instructions for making ginger beer dated, presumably erroneously, 18 Oct 1881.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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:
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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:
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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:
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