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DCP-LETT-9814F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
[14 Jan 1875]
Source of text:
Hull University Archives, Hull History Centre (British Union for Anti-Vivisection archives: U DBV/25/1)
Summary:

Explains why he cannot sign Miss Cobbe’s anti-vivisection petition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9814G

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Frances Power Cobbe
Date:
14 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
Hull University Archives, Hull History Centre (British Union for Anti-Vivisection archives: U DBV/25/1)
Summary:

Explains more fully why CD cannot sign Miss Cobbe’ anti-vivisection petition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9815

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 6–8
Summary:

Is on the eve of another row with the Office of Works about his application for assistance.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9817

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
14 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 97: C37–8
Summary:

Is alarmed by the petitions against vivisection that are being circulated. Believes there is scope for reasonable legislation and would like to see eminent physiologists prepare a petition so that the science could be protected and animals saved from needless suffering.

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DCP-LETT-9816

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Jan 1875
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 19–20
Summary:

Would like to see papers [on potato grafting] mentioned by CD.

CD has doubtless seen case in Gardeners’ Chronicle of vine in which scion has affected the stock [P. Grieve, "Singular sport upon a grape vine", Gard. Chron. (1875): 21].

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