From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
27 June 1879
Source of text:
DAR 143: 168
Summary:
Sir Robert Christison says Dr Darwin not the first to recommend alcohol for fever.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 186
Summary:
Thanks for copy of Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
10 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 143: 169
Summary:
Thanks for copy of TLB’s Pharmacology [1880].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 343
Summary:
Sends proofs of lectures he intends to reprint as a book [The Bible and science (1881)]; asks CD if he would check one for errors.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 344
Summary:
Forwards the preface to his book [see 12999] and comments on the effect of the Bible on science.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
[4 Aug 1881]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
CD wants to see TLB before he leaves London. Much obliged for his aid.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
11 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 143: 170
Summary:
Thanks TLB for the collection of his writings.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 345
Summary:
Thanks CD for a copy of Earthworms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
19 Nov 1881
Source of text:
DAR 143: 171
Summary:
Wishes to contribute to subscription to pay legal expenses of David Ferrier [in vivisection prosecution].
Comments on physiological papers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Nov 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 346
Summary:
Thanks CD for his offer of assistance to David Ferrier.
Discusses CD’s earthworm book.
Tonsils in man as rudimentary organs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
22 Nov 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 351
Summary:
Writes to ask how much he should subscribe to fund for David Ferrier.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Nov 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 347
Summary:
Writes regarding subscription to set up the Science Defence and Advancement Fund to protect investigators from anti-vivisectionists and to promote knowledge of the purpose and importance of vivisection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
17 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 352
Summary:
Feels he should decline nominal presidency of the proposed Science Defence Association.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 160: 348–9
Summary:
Writes regarding the form which the proposed Science Defence Association should take and encloses a draft of proposed resolutions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
14 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 160: 353–353/1
Summary:
Agrees with TLB’s views regarding the constitution of the proposed Science Defence Association.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
