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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-9963

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
1 May [1875]
Source of text:
University of the Witwatersrand, Historical Papers Research Archive (A237f, letters to Sir John Burdon Sanderson)
Summary:

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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FL-0458

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[1 May 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 89
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-9961F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 and 2 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 31
Summary:

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9964

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 May [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 449
Summary:

JM proposes to print 1000 copies [of Insectivorous plants].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9962

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
1 May 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.468)
Summary:

August Weismann is interested in JJW’s experiments on birds and the caterpillars they eat.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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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