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From Lawson Tait   8 April [1875]

Summary

Arrangements for a visit to Down.

Author:  Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  8 Apr [1875]
Classmark:  DAR 178: 6
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9918

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  • … below). Tait visited Down on 17 April 1875 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Thomas Henry …
  • … also visited Down on 17 April 1875 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). A notice of Tait’s …

From J. S. Burdon Sanderson   10 April 1875

Summary

Discusses the handling of the Memorial concerning animal experimentation.

Author:  John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 Apr 1875
Classmark:  University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-40)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9922A

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  • … at 2 Bryanston Street, London, from 6 to 12 April 1875 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …

From J. D. Hooker   15 April 1875

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Approves vivisection memorial.

Lyon Playfair supports his request for Kew assistant.

Asks whether CD has botanical suggestions for Arctic expedition.

Author:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 Apr 1875
Classmark:  DAR 104: 23–4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9932

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  • … in New Zealand. He returned to Down on 20 June 1875 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). …

From Thomas Allen   14 April 1875

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Encloses draft bill about vivisection; CD and friends may have influence enough to get it introduced in Commons or Lords; TA and the Cruelty Society do not. The Society, however, can pay for preparation of bill.

Author:  Thomas Allen
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Apr 1875
Classmark:  DAR 159: 51
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9926

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  • … Thomas Allen was Emma Darwin’s second cousin. There is a handwritten draft in Allen’s hand …

From G. J. Romanes   21 April 1875

Summary

Returns papers [unidentified].

One on inheritance destitute of meaning. How can "force" act without any material on which to act? Discussion must assume truth of some such theory as Pangenesis.

Author:  George John Romanes
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 Apr 1875
Classmark:  E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 20–2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9945

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  • … Romanes visited Down on 17 April 1875 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)); see letter to G.   …

From D. F. Nevill   17 [April 1875]

Summary

Hooker has told her CD is in London. She requests a meeting.

Author:  Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 [Apr 1875]
Classmark:  DAR 172: 31
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8135

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  • … and CD’s first meeting on 4 May 1875 ( Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242; after meeting him in …