To E. H. Stanley 15 April 1875
Summary
CD has helped leading physiologists to prepare a draft bill for legislation with regard to vivisection, and he hopes Lord Derby will support the bill and mention it to ministers of the Cabinet. Has heard that other groups are preparing bills for the same purpose, and feels it important that the science of physiology be protected as well as animals.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Henry Stanley, 15th earl of Derby |
| Date: | 15 Apr 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: C22–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9933 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 16 July 1875
Summary
Thanks for JSBS’s essays; wishes he had said something on Lister’s observations. Speculates on the fungoid nature of smallpox and why there is seldom re-infection.
Discusses digestion by Drosera, the action of its secretion being the same as that of gastric juice.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 16 July 1875 |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-22) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10070 |
To R. B. Litchfield 24 April [1875]
Summary
Sir John Lubbock’s advice on draft of petition on vivisection. Agrees with Lubbock’s opinion that a bill would be more effective – but the more the subject is stirred up, the better.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Buckley Litchfield |
| Date: | 24 Apr [1875] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 58373) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9946 |
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 |
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- … 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. …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Litchfield, R. B. | (1) |
| Stanley, E. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Litchfield, R. B. | (1) |
| Stanley, E. H. | (1) |
