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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 338
Summary:

Agrees with CD on vivisection. Will communicate with Burdon Sanderson and see what can be done.

Mivart’s wriggle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Jan 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 342
Summary:

Writes on behalf of Royal Society Polar Committee for suggestions concerning instructions to naturalists on new expedition.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4 Apr 1875]
Source of text:
DAR 166: 337
Summary:

Sends his thoughts on [vivisection] petition. Thinks they might make petition more talked about. Leaves it to J. Paget, Burdon Sanderson, and CD to deal with.

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:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 340
Summary:

Lyon Playfair’s bill [on vivisection] is unacceptable to all teachers of physiology. It prohibits dissections for demonstrations to students. He will have to repudiate it. Asks CD’s advice.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 June 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 341
Summary:

Playfair "disgusted at our pronunciamentos against the Bill". Burdon Sanderson and William Sharpey agreed to it. THH feels he must serve on Vivisection Commission.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Oct 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 351, DAR 166: 343
Summary:

Encloses an invitation to give evidence to Vivisection Commission. Satisfied with way things were going, but E. E. Klein’s evidence that he is utterly indifferent to pain of animals has done great mischief.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Nov 1875
Source of text:
DAR 166: 344
Summary:

Arrangements for CD’s appearance before Vivisection Commission.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project