From J. D. Hooker [23 September 1873]
Summary
Thanks for C. E. Norton’s address.
Tyndall’s answer [Nature 8 (1873): 399] has surprised and disappointed him;
great trouble in announcing Tyndall’s election as President Elect [of BAAS] yesterday. Tyndall may throw up the Presidency. Spottiswoode and JDH have concocted a letter telling him the facts.
A very poor dull meeting. Comments on papers by W. C. Williamson, Clerk Maxwell, David Ferrier, Burdon Sanderson [Rep. BAAS 43: lxx–xci, 23–32,126–7, 131–3].
Has heard Huxley is back quite well.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23 Sept 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 173–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9063 |
From T. L. Brunton 2 December 1873
Summary
Offers to experiment on the digestibility of chondrin and chlorophyll by Dionaea for CD.
Has noticed that painters depicting complex expressions give different expressions to the two sides of the face.
Author: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Dec 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 337 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9167 |
From Thomas Allen 29 April 1875
Summary
Encloses extract which suggests that CD and friends oppose any restriction on vivisection; asks CD to state his principles. Another bill is being sketched for Cruelty Society.
Author: | Thomas Allen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Apr 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 52 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9954 |
From Francis Darwin [30 September 1873]
Summary
He is travelling overnight by train from London to Pantlludw and will wake A. R. Ruck with a morningade on his flute.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [30 Sept 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8942F |
From J. H. Gilbert 31 December 1875
Summary
Discusses fairy rings.
Author: | Joseph Henry Gilbert |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Dec 1875 |
Classmark: | Rothamsted Research (GIL13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10331F |
From F. J. Cohn 31 December 1877
Summary
Sends details of H. H. R. Koch’s work on bacteria, including first photographs.
J. S. Burdon Sanderson’s and Koch’s collaboration on systemic fever.
Thinks movement of Francis Darwin’s Dipsacus filaments is an artifact.
Author: | Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 205 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11298 |
From F. J. Cohn 4 October 1874
Summary
An account of his observations on Aldrovanda and Utricularia.
Sends CD his memoir on Aldrovanda [Beitr. Biol. Pflanz. 1 (1875) Heft 3: 71–92] in advance of publication [see Insectivorous plants, pp. 321 et seq., 395–6].
Author: | Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 95–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9667 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Burdon Sanderson 1874a . Cohn’s article ‘Ueber die function der blasen von Aldrovanda und Utricularia’ ( F. J. …
- … J. Cohn 1875 before its publication. CD published microscopical observations of Dionaea muscipula (Venus fly trap) in Insectivorous plants , pp. 288 and 317–18. John Scott Burdon Sanderson …
From Francis Darwin [after March 1873]
Summary
Fears [CD’s] albumen theory will not work because albumen is coagulated and filtered out in making extracts of belladonna, hyoscyamine, and colchicine [alkaloid poisons].
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after Mar 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 132 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9198 |
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 Francis Darwin [19 September 1873]
Summary
Reports that S. W. Moore may be able to provide various substances for CD’s research on the digestive power of Drosera (sundew).
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [19 Sept 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9059F |
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. J. Romanes 11 June [1876]
Summary
Delighted to hear of Frank Darwin’s discovery.
Seems hopeless to reason with people about vivisection.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 June [1876] |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 63–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10536 |
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 P. H. Pye-Smith 19 December 1881
Summary
Urges CD to write on vivisection for Nineteenth Century or suggest a competent scientific author. Forming an association to forward interests of vivisectionists.
Author: | Philip Henry Pye-Smith |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Dec 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 82 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13566 |
From P. H. Pye-Smith 21 December 1881
Summary
Difficulty of using concrete instances of the benefit of vivisection in medical science.
Author: | Philip Henry Pye-Smith |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Dec 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 83 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13572 |
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 G. J. Romanes 2 December 1877
Summary
Thanks for letter. Values CD’s opinion more than that of anybody else.
Perfectly astonished at reception CD got among popular audiences at GJR’s lectures.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11283 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Burdon Sanderson in the context of debates about spontaneous generation, see Strick 2000 , pp. 149–53). Romanes’s observations, ‘Fetichism in animals’, appeared not as a letter but in the ‘News’ section of Nature , 27 December 1877, pp. 168–9. John Morley was the editor of the Fortnightly Review ; CD suggested Romanes’s lecture might be reprinted in that journal (see letter to G. 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. …
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Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (29) |
Darwin, Francis | (5) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Huxley, T. H. | (5) |
Playfair, Lyon | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (60) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (29) |
Darwin, Francis | (5) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Huxley, T. H. | (5) |