From Francis Darwin [13 December 1875]
Summary
[The black-balling of Edwin Ray Lankester by the Linnean Society] is a most scandalous shame. Will arrange for his own admission to fellowship of the Society.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [13 Dec 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 30 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10362F |
From T. H. Huxley 21 April 1875
Summary
Lord Cardwell thinks it unlikely that Parliament will take any action on a vivisection bill this session. Playfair should be consulted.
E. F. W. Pflüger’s important memoir on how carbonic acid is produced by living matter and his speculation about origin of living matter [see 9931].
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Apr 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 339 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9942 |
From Lyon Playfair 21 May 1875
Summary
The Government has decided to hold a Royal Commission on vivisection with Lord Cardwell as chairman.
| Author: | Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair of St Andrews |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 May 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 49 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9987 |
From James Paget 7 July 1875
Summary
Thanks for Insectivorous plants.
Intrigued by the analogy between fairy-rings and annular skin diseases, e.g., herpes and psoriasis.
| Author: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 9 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10048 |
From G. A. Wolfe 9 March 1875
Summary
CD’s Descent.
Fighting among beetles.
Similarity between dogs and men; intelligence of dogs.
| Author: | Gould Anne Ruxton; Gould Anne Wolfe |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Mar 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 135 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9882 |
From T. H. Huxley 18 January 1875
Summary
Agrees with CD on vivisection. Will communicate with Burdon Sanderson and see what can be done.
Mivart’s wriggle.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Jan 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 338 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9823 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Burdon Sanderson . Huxley quotes from Tristram Shandy ( Sterne 1760–7 , 5: 45). St George Jackson Mivart had published a letter in the Academy , 16 January 1874, p. 66, signing himself ‘The Quarterly Review er of 1874’, responding to Huxley’s remarks on his anonymous reviews in the Academy , 2 January 1875, pp. 16–18 (see letter from J. …
From J. D. Hooker 15 April 1875
Summary
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Burdon Sanderson and others (see letter to E. H. Stanley, 15 April 1875 and n. 2). Hooker was president of the Royal Society of London . Richard Strachey . Harriet Anne Hooker . Athenaeum Club, London. Hooker had applied to have an assistant appointed to help with his work at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (see letter from J. …
| letter | (27) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (12) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (5) |
| Playfair, Lyon | (3) |
| Allen, Thomas | (2) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (27) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (12) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (5) |
| Playfair, Lyon | (3) |
| Allen, Thomas | (2) |
