Sends a copy of the draft vivisection bill [see 9933] and hopes that it may be approved of and supported by the Government.
CD is delighted to hear that JSBS’s exertions and labour will probably be rewarded by success. He has had a note from Playfair who, like Lubbock, thinks the title and preamble [of the proposed bill] "had better wear a more humanitarian aspect".
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Proofs arrived and Francis is correcting them. Tells Emma Darwin that Amy is delighted about the azaleas. The Ruck family very much like Isabella Bird’s Six months in the Sandwich Islands.
JM proposes to print 1000 copies [of Insectivorous plants].
August Weismann is interested in JJW’s experiments on birds and the caterpillars they eat.
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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Encloses the bill with its corrected preamble. How many copies would he like?
Hopes JSBS can attend the meeting of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals on 5 May 1875.
Arrangements to meet a Duke [unidentified] at High Elms [Lubbock residence].
CD proposes setting price [of Insectivorous plants] on a printing of 1000 copies, but to have 250 additional copies printed – with CD paying for paper and press work. JM would not repay CD until 1000 are sold; and profits on the 250 to be divided as usual. CD proposes this because he does not think a second edition will ever be needed.
Thanks JP for volume of his lectures [Clinical lectures and essays, ed. H. Marsh (1875)].
Mentions "vivisection question".
Regrets he cannot attend proposed meeting [on vivisection]. Hopes legislation may be passed limiting vivisection while not interfering with the progress of physiology.
Will send corrected proofs [of Insectivorous plants].
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JM agrees to raise number of first printing [of Insectivorous plants] to 1250 if CD will wait for his share of profits until sales reach 750 or 800.
EBT’s brother, Alfred Tylor, wishes to visit CD with George Young.
AT’s "pluvial period" theory.
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