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To James Paget   3 May 1875

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

May 3 | 1875.

My dear Paget

I am very much obliged for your kind present of your Lectures. From their titles I feel sure that they will, like all your other writings which I have read, interest me greatly.1

The vivisection question seems to be going on in every way as well as cd be desired.2

My dear Paget | yours very sincerely | Charles Darwin

Footnotes

1
Paget’s Clinical lectures and essays (Paget 1875) contained sixteen essays, fifteen of which had already been published in medical journals or hospital reports. There is an annotated copy of Paget’s Lectures on surgical pathology (Paget 1853) in Darwin Library–CUL, and a copy of the third edition of this work in Darwin Library–Down (Marginalia 1: 658–61).
2
Paget had given his support for a vivisection bill prepared by CD and his friends to be presented to Parliament (see letter to from J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 30 April [1875].

Bibliography

Marginalia: Charles Darwin’s marginalia. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio with the assistance of Nicholas W. Gill. Vol. 1. New York and London: Garland Publishing. 1990.

Paget, James. 1853. Lectures on surgical pathology delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 2 vols. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.

Paget, James. 1875. Clinical lectures and essays. Edited by Howard Marsh. London: Longman, Green, and Co.

Summary

Thanks JP for volume of his lectures [Clinical lectures and essays, ed. H. Marsh (1875)].

Mentions "vivisection question".

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-9966
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
James Paget, 1st baronet
Sent from
Down
Source of text
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.467)
Physical description
LS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 9966,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-9966.xml

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

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