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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
7 Apr [1875]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.465)
Summary:

Is sending plants from cut-leaved vine.

Invites GJR to visit.

"When in presence of my ladies do not talk about experiments on animals."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
7 April 1875
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.293, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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From:
Darwin, E. A.
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
8 April 1875
Source of text:
DAR 210.7: 4
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 162: 152
Summary:

Sends last part of his book [Ulteriori observazioni sulla dicogamia (1868–74)] [osservazioni!?] and describes contents.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
8 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 146: 129
Summary:

Writes regarding local difficulties concerning Down School and the setting up of a reading-room; his strained relationship with G. S. ffinden following some misunderstanding.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 6
Summary:

Arrangements for a visit to Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
8 Apr [1875-82]
Source of text:
Jane da Mosto (private collection)
Summary:

Explains that there is no need for the addressee to apologise.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Apr [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 447
Summary:

JM expresses willingness to publish CD’s Climbing plants [2d ed.].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Henry Flower
Date:
9 April 1875
Source of text:
John Innes Foundation, Historical Collections: W. H. Flower Collection
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
9 April 1875
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: Add. 9839/1W/105
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Apr 1875
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-40)
Summary:

Discusses the handling of the Memorial concerning animal experimentation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Branwhite Clarke
Date:
10 April 1875
Source of text:
ML MSS.3608 Clarke papers, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney.For a published version of this letter, see Moyal (2003), pp. 1064-5
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
10 Apr [1875]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 f. 313)
Summary:

Is glad JM will publish [Climbing plants] as a separate little book. Some people have been much interested in it, though it has been read by very few.

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

"We have not a day to lose if our [Vivisection] Bill or our petition is to do any good". Reports on the activities of the opposition and the attitude of politicians on the subject. Believes a meeting with a minister should be arranged and thinks Lord Derby would be a good man. "All will depend on some half-dozen or 9 or 12 men agreeing on the bill."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
11 April 1875
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: Add. 9839/1W/106
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[12 Apr 1875]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-27)
Summary:

Considers the question of recognised lecturers being allowed a licence to perform animal experiments without having to obtain a certificate of fitness.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Apr [1875]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-29)
Summary:

Discusses the best means of presenting the draft bill about animal experimentation. Suggests that CD inform Lord Derby that scientific men concurred with the bill that had been prepared. [See 9923.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
12 April 1875
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.2, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Thomas Burgess
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 106: D17–18
Summary:

Sends CD an account of his career since leaving the Beagle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Edwyn Charles Reed
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
13 April 1875
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 301-302
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project