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DCP-LETT-9926

From:
Thomas Allen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 159: 51
Summary:

Encloses draft bill about vivisection; CD and friends may have influence enough to get it introduced in Commons or Lords; TA and the Cruelty Society do not. The Society, however, can pay for preparation of bill.

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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
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FL-1391

From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
14 April [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 847
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9927

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 Apr [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 384–5
Summary:

CD and others now think it advisable to go further than a petition on vivisection, and a bill has been drafted.

F. Delpino’s pamphlet on pitchers ["Sulle pianti a bicchieri", Nuovo G. Bot. Ital. 3 (1871): 174–6].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9930

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
14 Apr [1875]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Miscellaneous Correspondence - Letter from C. R. Darwin to W. T. Thiselton-Dyer)
Summary:

Thanks WTT-D for his present of Sachs’s book [Textbook of botany (1875)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9931

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

Thanks EFWP for sending him his treatise.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9934

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
15 and 19 Apr 1875
Source of text:
University of the Witwatersrand, Historical Papers Research Archive (A237f, letters to Sir John Burdon Sanderson)
Summary:

Has written to Lord Derby about the vivisection issue and urged him to speak to the proper members of the Cabinet to prevent "hasty legislation versus science". CD offered to send the sketch of the bill that has been drafted or a small deputation to wait on any member of the Cabinet. Lubbock does not think the petition should be presented as he feels sure that nothing will be done this session.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-75-04-15

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Miles Berkeley
Date:
15 April 1875
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London, Botany Library, Berkeley correspondence, vol. 9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

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.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9933

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Henry Stanley, 15th earl of Derby
Date:
15 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 97: C22–4
Summary:

CD has helped leading physiologists to prepare a draft bill for legislation with regard to vivisection, and he hopes Lord Derby will support the bill and mention it to ministers of the Cabinet. Has heard that other groups are preparing bills for the same purpose, and feels it important that the science of physiology be protected as well as animals.

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WCP4044

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
15 April 1875
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: Add. 9839/1W/107
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC1724

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

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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WCP4045

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
16 April 1875
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: Add. 9839/1W/108
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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
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