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Darwin Correspondence Project

From J. D. Hooker   7 April 1875

Kew

April 7/75

Dear Darwin

I like all the enclosed—but might you not add “& the lower animals” where I have pencilled at the very end1

Ever aff yrs | Jos D Hooker

Footnotes

Hooker refers to a draft petition to regulate vivisection (see letter from T. H. Huxley, [4 April 1875] and n. 2).

Summary

Likes draft of petition on vivisection. Asks whether phrase "and the lower animals" might not be added at end.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-9917
From
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To
Charles Robert Darwin
Sent from
Kew
Source of text
DAR 104: 22
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9917,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9917.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23

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