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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
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FL-1393

From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
24 April 1875
Source of text:
DAR 258: 849
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

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.]

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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