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Darwin and vivisection
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Darwin played an important role in the controversy over vivisection that broke out in late 1874. Public debate was sparked when the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals brought an unsuccessful prosecution against a French physiologist who…
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- … Darwin played an important role in the controversy over vivisection that broke out in late 1874. …
- … It called upon the RSPCA to investigate the nature and scope of vivisections performed in physiology …
- … Darwin was sympathetic to the cause, but found some of Cobbe’s rhetoric inflammatory, and he …
- … by Miss Cobbe, with its monstrous (as it seems to me) attack on Virchow for experimenting on the …
- … their own petition (letter to T. H. Huxley, 14 January 1875 ). In the event, Darwin became …
- … public controversy and so the extent of his activity in the vivisection affair is surprising. His …
- … and Edward Emanuel Klein, all of whom made extensive use of vivisection. This group had also jointly …
- … within Darwin’s family. In his letter of 14 January 1875 to Huxley, Darwin mentioned the effect …
- … (letter from Emma Darwin to F. P. Cobbe, 14 January [1875] ). In the course of the public …
- … Dalton Hooker requesting his approval as president of the Royal Society of London (letter to J. D. …
- … might be performed only with a licence granted by the home secretary, and a certificate signed by …
- … to make an experiment on a live animal … ( Report of the Royal Commission on vivisection , …
- … Lyon Playfair, 27 May 1875 ). In his testimony before the Royal Commission (see below), Darwin …
- … be confined to premises that were registered with the home secretary, and open to inspectors …
- … on a living vertebrate animal ( Report of the Royal Commission on vivisection , Appendix III, pp. …
- … the bills was passed. Debate was forestalled when the home secretary, Richard Cross, announced on 24 …
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
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‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
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- … I am merely slaving over the sickening work of preparing new Editions Plants …
- … species, and botanical research had often been a source of personal satisfaction, providing relief …
- … detestably bad English a very little less bad.’ The process was compounded by the fact that …
- … hoped to publish in a single volume along with the material on insectivorous plants. No sooner had …
- … with fresh enthusiasm to the new assistant director at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, William …
- … early May, Darwin was occupied with a heated debate over vivisection , working with scientific …
- … Mivart was a distinguished zoologist, a fellow of the Royal Society of London, and a secretary of …
- … mouthpiece of ‘Jesuitical Rome’ ( Academy , 2 January 1875, pp. 16–17). ‘How grandly you have …
- … Hooker was hampered by his position as president of the Royal Society from spurning Mivart in public …
- … again & again’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 16 January 1875 ). Darwin had also considered …
- … when the chance arose. On 28 January , he sent a note on Royal Society business to Edward Burnett …
- … how false a man I consider him to be.’ The vivisection question Just as the Mivart …
- … Darwin had been asked to sign a memorial on the practice of vivisection by the religious writer and …
- … dogs (see Correspondence vols. 19 and 20). The vivisection issue was a delicate one …
- … on vivisection, the government decided to appoint a Royal Commission to advise on future legislation …
- … when performing a painful experiment ( Report of the Royal Commission on vivisection , p. 183). …
- … to abandon his medical studies and work as his father’s secretary. On sending the latest batch of …
- … 22 February, he was notified of Lyell’s death by Lyell’s secretary, Arabella Buckley. Lyell had …
Origin is 160; Darwin's 1875 letters now online
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To mark the 160th anniversary of the publication of Origin of species, the full transcripts and footnotes of nearly 650 letters to and from Charles Darwin in 1875 are published online for the first time. You can read about Darwin's life in 1875…
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- … To mark the 160th anniversary of the publication of Origin of species , the full transcripts and …
- … busy in London, drafting and circulating a bill to regulate vivisection, hoping to pre-empt Frances …
- … London, had assisted Darwin with his experiments on the digestive fluid of the insectivorous plant …
- … it behaved in similar ways to the Drosera secretion. In 1875, Klein was a very controversial …
- … I liked the man .’ Other highlights from the 1875 letters include: I am very …
- … plants , lowered to 14 shillings. He had been experimenting on these plants since 1859. The highly …
- … self fertilisation , summing up many years of experiments on crossing plants. I wd …
- … [1875] ) Agitation for a law controlling vivisection came to a head in 1875, when …
- … a rival bill. In the event, the matter was referred to a Royal Commission, before which Darwin gave …
- … Darwin’s son Francis, who was working as his father’s secretary, was also able to do independent …
Darwin in letters, 1876: In the midst of life
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1876 was the year in which the Darwins became grandparents for the first time. And tragically lost their daughter-in-law, Amy, who died just days after her son's birth. All the letters from 1876 are now published in volume 24 of The Correspondence…
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- … I cannot bear to think of the future The year 1876 started out sedately enough with …
- … But it was in September, when Darwin was finishing work on the second edition of Orchids and …
- … to think of the future’, Darwin confessed to William on 11 September just hours after Amy’s …
- … now part of the household, and Darwin recasting his work on dimorphic and trimorphic plants in new …
- … vol. 23, letter from Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg, 20 September 1875 ). He began to compile an account …
- … end of the previous year. He had been incensed in December 1875 when the zoologist Edwin Ray …
- … [4 February 1876] ). 'The heat of battle': the vivisection debate The fight …
- … subsequently proposed, however, was far more restrictive. Vivisection would be permitted only if it …
- … to take. Burdon Sanderson was keen for the society’s secretary, George Romanes, to write articles …
- … am inclined to think that writing against the bigots about vivisection is as hopeless as stemming a …
- … to Insectivorous plants , which was published in July 1875, with a US edition published later …
- … paper on leaf-arrangement or phyllotaxy was sent to the Royal Society of London by Darwin because he …
- … morphology, Francis Maitland Balfour, for fellowship of the Royal Society, but also signed a …
- … Lawson Tait, a Birmingham gynaecologist. The decision by the Royal Society of London to reject a …
- … He already knew that Joseph Hooker, president of the Royal Society, who was also researching …
- … which will last for my life’, he told George Stokes, secretary of the society, on 21 April, …
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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- … reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time …
- … by early April, he was being carried upstairs with the aid of a special chair. The end came on 19 …
- … his brother Erasmus had been interred in 1881. But some of his scientific friends quickly organised …
- … In the end, his body was laid to rest in the most famous of Anglican churches, Westminster Abbey. …
- … have been working at the effects of Carbonate of Ammonia on roots,’ Darwin wrote, ‘the chief result …
- … from C. A. Kennard, 28 January 1882 ). Automata and vivisection Darwin had a less …
- … Huxley used arguments about automatism in debates over vivisection, attempting to undermine claims …
- … of Darwin’s scientific life in the 1840s: his duties as secretary of the Geological Society, his …
- … December [1857] ). In May 1857, Darwin wrote to the secretary of the Royal Society, William …
- … for divorce’ ( letter to H. K. Rusden, [before 27 March 1875] ). In Descent of man , p. 103, …
- … vol. 23, letter from Charlotte Papé, 16 July 1875 ). She now addressed Francis, who could best …
Darwin in letters, 1881: Old friends and new admirers
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In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began writing about all the eminent men he had met. He embarked on this task, which formed an addition to his autobiography, because he had nothing else to do. He had…
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- … In May 1881, Darwin, one of the best-known celebrities in England if not the world, began writing …
- … but that he might not be able to work at all. ‘I have not the heart or strength at my age to begin …
- … as the sweetest place on this earth’. From the start of the year, Darwin had his demise on his mind. …
- … affairs and began to make provision for the dividing of his wealth after his death. Darwin’s …
- … day’. Nonetheless, Darwin had willingly defended regulated vivisection and accepted his share of …
- … not have read the evidence given by physiologists to the 1875 Royal Commission for the regulation of …
- … had peddled misinformation, but presented evidence from the Royal Commission report that …
- … ). Later in the year, Darwin declined to write an essay on vivisection for the Nineteenth Century …
- … & ungracious dog not to agree’, he told Romanes, secretary of the society, on 27 May . …
- … telling him to order one from Cambridge. When Robert Ball, Royal Astronomer of Ireland, praised …
- … and enduring scientific legacy was his pledge in 1881 to the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew of an …
