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DCP-LETT-9930A

From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr [1875]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-38)
Summary:

Agrees that CD should write to Lord Derby to say that a bill on animal experimentation was being prepared and that the government should not comment at this stage. [See 9933.] Ridicules the idea of using inspectors. Distinguishes between dissection and vivisection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9928

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 105: A78
Summary:

Is sending some seeds of sweetpeas, which George [Darwin] said CD would plant for him.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9929

From:
Eduard Friedrich Wilhelm Pflüger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 97: C10
Summary:

Sends CD his latest treatise, in which he discusses the origin of life ["Über die Physiologische Verbrennung in den lebendigen Organismen", Arch. Gesammte Physiol. 10 (1875): 251–367].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9932

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 23–4
Summary:

Approves vivisection memorial.

Lyon Playfair supports his request for Kew assistant.

Asks whether CD has botanical suggestions for Arctic expedition.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9935

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 25
Summary:

Approves draft of vivisection bill. Huxley strongly in favour of a bill.

Knows of the pitchers of one species of Dischidia.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-9937

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 161: 100
Summary:

Sends concluding part of his Zoologie [see 8531].

Enjoys translating Journal of researches. Questions several passages.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9936

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 104: 26–8
Summary:

On pitchers of Dischidia and insects found in them.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8135

From:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 [Apr 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 172: 31
Summary:

Hooker has told her CD is in London. She requests a meeting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9938

From:
Edward Henry Stanley, 15th earl of Derby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 162
Summary:

He is honoured by CD’s selection of him as the medium of communication with Government. The matter [Vivisection Bill] now lies with the Home Secretary.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9939

From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 153
Summary:

Looking forward to publication of Insectivorous plants, which he will review.

Paul Mantegazza has criticised FD on insectivorous plants

and CD on sexual selection; FD maintains dichogamy in plants supports sexual selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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.

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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:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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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-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-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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