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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
15 May [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.31
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
15–17 May [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 2.12
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair of St Andrews
Date:
15 May [1875]
Source of text:
Bonhams (dealers) (10 November 2009); DAR 147: 245
Summary:
Discusses Vivisection Bill.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
17 May 1875
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 165
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
17 May 1875
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, ff. 166-7
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Robert Ramsay
Date:
17 May 1875
Source of text:
H75/5537, unit 811, VPRS 3991 inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria.For published copies of this letter see Argus (Melbourne), 26 May 1875, p. 6 (B75.05.03), and the other sources listed in that entry
Summary:
No summary available.
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From:
Morley, John
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
17 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1895
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
G. Chiantore
To:
John Murray
Date:
18 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 451
Summary:
Editor of L’Unione, Turin, would publish an Italian edition of Variation if the clichés of the English edition were made available at not more than £10.
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From:
Frederic Francis Hallett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 89
Summary:
Sends his paper to show his priority over John Le Couteur. Claims discovery of the "law of development" of cereals.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow
Date:
18 May [1875 or 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C25
Summary:
CD has misplaced the annual audited balance sheet for the Down Friendly Society and wonders whether he has sent it to his correspondent in error.
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Mansfield Ingleby
Date:
18 May 1875
Source of text:
Folger Shakespeare Library: C.a.24 (42)
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederic Francis Hallett
Date:
[19 or 20 May 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C26
Summary:
Thanks FFH for his note and enclosure [see 9982]. Quotes from Le Couteur [On … wheat (1836)?] to justify statements made in Variation [1868].
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 340
Summary:
Lyon Playfair’s bill [on vivisection] is unacceptable to all teachers of physiology. It prohibits dissections for demonstrations to students. He will have to repudiate it. Asks CD’s advice.
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From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
20 May [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 2.13
Summary:
No summary available.
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From:
Adolf Bernard Meyer
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
20 May 1875
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 309-310
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
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From:
Frederic Francis Hallett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 90
Summary:
Insists that he, not Le Couteur, was the first to recognise and exploit variation within wheat varieties. Disturbed he was not acknowledged in Variation.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
21 May 1875
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 316)
Summary:
CD believes Playfair’s bill would not restrict demonstrations under anaesthetic.
Contributor:
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From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
21 May [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1645
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair of St Andrews
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 174: 49
Summary:
The Government has decided to hold a Royal Commission on vivisection with Lord Cardwell as chairman.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 May [1875]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-35)
Summary:
Believes Lyon Playfair has been led to compromise too far on bill about animal experimentation as a result of pressure from men wishing to suppress science. A full enquiry is to take place. [See 9987.] Suggests that CD send Playfair Huxley’s letter on the subject.
Contributor:
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