To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 22 April [1875]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Ap 22
My dear Sanderson
Please to read the enclosed note from Huxley. I think I cannot do better than send copies of our bill to Lyon Playfair & Ld Cardwell2 I should think it would be a good thing if you could see the former.
I also enclose a letter from Litchfield, which is important as showing what the Humanitarians intend doing.3 Litchfield’s advice to have our arguments well considered against their propositions seems very good. I have hardly knowledge enough on the subject, but I can see that “places” would interfere with every physiologists excepting in large towns where there are Laboratories; & if “places” are not licensed I cannot see any use in an inspector. The most difficult point seems to me No 2.4 It is pretty clear that the opposite party will soon introduce a bill of some kind5
Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Summary
Encloses letter from Thomas Henry Huxley (DCP-LETT-9942); CD thinks copies of their bill should be sent to Lyon Playfair and Edward Cardwell.
Richard Buckley Litchfield reports the intentions of the Humanitarians.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-9942F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- University of the Witwatersrand, Historical Papers Research Archive (A237f, letters to Sir John Burdon Sanderson)
- Physical description
- LS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9942F,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9942F.xml