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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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9943

From:
Thomas Burgess
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Apr [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 376
Summary:

Thanks for letter of 15th and book. Recollects many sights of Tierra del Fuego described by CD.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9944

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 171: 448
Summary:

V. O. Kovalevsky has paid for the Expression plates.

Still has 400 copies of Chauncey Wright’s pamphlet

and 450 of Müller’s Facts and arguments for Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9942

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 339
Summary:

Lord Cardwell thinks it unlikely that Parliament will take any action on a vivisection bill this session. Playfair should be consulted.

E. F. W. Pflüger’s important memoir on how carbonic acid is produced by living matter and his speculation about origin of living matter [see 9931].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9945

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Apr 1875
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 20–2
Summary:

Returns papers [unidentified].

One on inheritance destitute of meaning. How can "force" act without any material on which to act? Discussion must assume truth of some such theory as Pangenesis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9942F

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

Encloses letter from Thomas Henry Huxley (DCP-LETT-9942); CD thinks copies of their bill should be sent to Lyon Playfair and Edward Cardwell.

Richard Buckley Litchfield reports the intentions of the Humanitarians.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9945A

From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Apr [1875]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-32)
Summary:

Further discussion about the act regulating animal experimentation; believes the licensing of places to be impracticable.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9948

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

CD has seen Sir John [Lubbock] who suggests that L. Playfair would be the best man to present the [vivisection] petition, but thinks the proposed bill much more important and useful. JL also suggests that the bill be given a more humanitarian aspect and that it be presented to both Houses of Parliament.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9948F

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

Richard Buckley Litchfield will soon be able to send CD revised copies of the bill.

Will write to Sir John Lubbock to ask if he will present the bill.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9949

From:
Titus Munson Coan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 161: 184
Summary:

Transcribes extracts from Sir James Mackintosh and J. S. Polack on infanticide.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9924

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Buckley Litchfield
Date:
[24 Apr 1875]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 58373)
Summary:

On the petition by scientists regarding vivisection and plans for presenting it in Parliament.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9946

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Buckley Litchfield
Date:
24 Apr [1875]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 58373)
Summary:

Sir John Lubbock’s advice on draft of petition on vivisection. Agrees with Lubbock’s opinion that a bill would be more effective – but the more the subject is stirred up, the better.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9947

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ralston Shedden-Ralston
Date:
24 Apr [1875]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 218–219)
Summary:

Asks WRSR to explain a diploma and letter he has received from Russia, so he can return his thanks. [Probably a reference to CD’s being made an honorary fellow of the Society of Naturalists of the Imperial Kazan University in 1875.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9950

From:
Humphry Sandwith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 177: 30
Summary:

Announces death of W. W. Reade.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9952

From:
William Ralston Shedden-Ralston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 176: 4
Summary:

Translates letter [of 30 Mar 1875, missing] to CD from the Society of Naturalists in the Imperial University of Kazan, awarding an honorary membership.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9951

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Humphry Sandwith
Date:
26 Apr 1875
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (29 May 1961)
Summary:

Comments on death of W. W. Reade. "… it is best that he should have been relieved from all future suffering, as he was evidently a doomed man".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9953

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Harris
Date:
27 Apr 1875
Source of text:
University of California Los Angeles, Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections Division (Ms. 10, Letters concerning George Harris’s A Philosophical Treatise on the Nature and Constitution of Man )
Summary:

Briefly answers GH’s query whether animals can perceive any qualities unperceived by man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9908

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell
Date:
[before 29 Apr 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C17
Summary:

Believes correspondent is interested in how physiologists regard the question of legislating on vivisection. He forwards the sketch of a bill drawn up by physiologists for that purpose.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9909

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair of St Andrews
Date:
[before 29 Apr 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C18
Summary:

Sends a sketch of a bill on vivisection that he understands LP wishes to see.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9953A

From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Apr [1875]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-31)
Summary:

Informs CD that he has taken no further action about the petition concerning animal experimentation on the understanding that it would be presented only if the government introduced an objectionable bill. [See 9948.]

Contributor:
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