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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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
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
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
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
From:
Thomas Allen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 159: 52
Summary:
Encloses extract which suggests that CD and friends oppose any restriction on vivisection; asks CD to state his principles. Another bill is being sketched for Cruelty Society.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 161: 47
Summary:
Acknowledges CD’s letter and enclosure on vivisection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair of St Andrews
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 174: 48
Summary:
Supports the Vivisection Bill, with a more humanitarian preamble. Working to get it through the House of Lords.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 97: C9v
Summary:
The Society wishes to introduce a bill to limit vivisection and is arranging a meeting with medical men to discuss the bill.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4 May 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 34
Summary:
Will send corrected proofs [of Insectivorous plants].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 May [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 450
Summary:
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Burnett Tylor
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 178: 204
Summary:
EBT’s brother, Alfred Tylor, wishes to visit CD with George Young.
AT’s "pluvial period" theory.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 167: 32
Summary:
Writes about a white rabbit which is turning fawn-coloured,
and about Scottish education.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Crowther Brown
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 160: 324
Summary:
Notes absence of material on fossil coral reefs in CD’s 2d edition [Coral reefs (1874)]. Has been collecting specimens from a fossil reef near his home for four years; gave many to Oxford.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 174: 8
Summary:
A letter introducing T. F. Burgers, President of the Transvaal Republic.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas François Burgers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 97: C11v
Summary:
Would like to call on CD if convenient.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project