From:
Edward Cardwell, 1st Viscount Cardwell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 161: 47
Summary:
Acknowledges CD’s letter and enclosure on vivisection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Acknowledges CD’s letter and enclosure on vivisection.
CD is asked to testify before a Royal Commission on experiments on living animals.
Believes correspondent is interested in how physiologists regard the question of legislating on vivisection. He forwards the sketch of a bill drawn up by physiologists for that purpose.
CD would feel bound to give evidence to the Royal Commission on vivisection should they ask him, but he has no personal experience of the matter. Expresses his opinions on the importance to physiology of experiments on live animals.