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DCP-LETT-9913

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 164: 78
Summary:

Payne will send vine cuttings.

Thomas Belt has been visiting; they are to meet Huxley.

He is moved by denudation of the Weald.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9909F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4 Apr 1875]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 57)
Summary:

Will write to Strickland. Asks whether name has already been put down for Athenaeum.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9875

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4 Apr 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 337
Summary:

Sends his thoughts on [vivisection] petition. Thinks they might make petition more talked about. Leaves it to J. Paget, Burdon Sanderson, and CD to deal with.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9914F

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Apr [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 198: 128
Summary:

Expresses concern about the "coolness" between CD and [G. S.] Ffinden in regard to the Infant School.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9917

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 22
Summary:

Likes draft of petition on vivisection. Asks whether phrase "and the lower animals" might not be added at end.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9919

From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 152
Summary:

Sends last part of his book [Ulteriori observazioni sulla dicogamia (1868–74)] [osservazioni!?] and describes contents.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9918

From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 6
Summary:

Arrangements for a visit to Down.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9921

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Apr [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 447
Summary:

JM expresses willingness to publish CD’s Climbing plants [2d ed.].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9925

From:
Thomas Burgess
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 106: D17–18
Summary:

Sends CD an account of his career since leaving the Beagle.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9926

From:
Thomas Allen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 159: 51
Summary:

Encloses draft bill about vivisection; CD and friends may have influence enough to get it introduced in Commons or Lords; TA and the Cruelty Society do not. The Society, however, can pay for preparation of bill.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9928

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A78
Summary:

Is sending some seeds of sweetpeas, which George [Darwin] said CD would plant for him.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9929

From:
Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 97: C10
Summary:

Sends CD his latest treatise, in which he discusses the origin of life ["Über die Physiologische Verbrennung in den lebendigen Organismen", Arch. Gesammte Physiol. 10 (1875): 251–367].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9932

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 23–4
Summary:

Approves vivisection memorial.

Lyon Playfair supports his request for Kew assistant.

Asks whether CD has botanical suggestions for Arctic expedition.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9935

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 25
Summary:

Approves draft of vivisection bill. Huxley strongly in favour of a bill.

Knows of the pitchers of one species of Dischidia.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9937

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 161: 100
Summary:

Sends concluding part of his Zoologie [see 8531].

Enjoys translating Journal of researches. Questions several passages.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9936

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 26–8
Summary:

On pitchers of Dischidia and insects found in them.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8135

From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 [Apr 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 31
Summary:

Hooker has told her CD is in London. She requests a meeting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9938

From:
Edward Henry Stanley, 15th earl of Derby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 162
Summary:

He is honoured by CD’s selection of him as the medium of communication with Government. The matter [Vivisection Bill] now lies with the Home Secretary.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9939

From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 153
Summary:

Looking forward to publication of Insectivorous plants, which he will review.

Paul Mantegazza has criticised FD on insectivorous plants

and CD on sexual selection; FD maintains dichogamy in plants supports sexual selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9941

From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 176: 73
Summary:

Staying with the [Ore H.] Sandwiths during his convalescence.

Contributor:
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