To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 22 April [1875]
Summary
Encloses letter from Thomas Henry Huxley (DCP-LETT-9942); CD thinks copies of their bill should be sent to Lyon Playfair and Edward Cardwell.
Richard Buckley Litchfield reports the intentions of the Humanitarians.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 22 Apr [1875] |
Classmark: | University of the Witwatersrand, Historical Papers Research Archive (A237f, letters to Sir John Burdon Sanderson) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9942F |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 19 November [1873]
Summary
Sends the very little globulin and haemoglobin he has to be tested with artificial gastric juice. He could get more from Samuel William Moore. Perhaps T. L. Brunton knows about the digestion of chlorophyll by animals.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 19 Nov [1873] |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9155 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 29 March 1873
Summary
Reports that he has not received JSBS’s book on histology and physiology [Sanderson ed., Handbook for the physiological laboratory (1873)], which Edward Emmanuel Klein told CD’s son was to be sent. He asks for information so that he may thank Dr Klein. [Klein and Michael Foster were co-authors with JSBS.]
He has returned the Gazette to Dr T. L. Brunton. [See 8825.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 29 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 147: 406 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8829A |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Burdon Sanderson, J. S. …
- … To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 29 March 1873 …
- … Burdon Sanderson was professorial superintendent of the institution, and had edited Klein’s Handbook for the physiological laboratory (Klein et al. 1873). There is a copy of Klein et al. 1873 in the Darwin Library–Down. CD had borrowed a copy of the Indian Medical Gazette belonging to Thomas Lauder Brunton ; it contained an article about tumbling behaviour in pigeons ( W. J. …
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 21 June [1874]
Summary
Thanks for fibrin. Drosera and Pinguicula dissolve it thoroughly.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 21 June [1874] |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9504 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Burdon Sanderson, J. S. …
- … To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 21 June [1874] …
- … this letter and the letter from J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 19 June 1874 . This letter was …
- … Correspondence vol. 22, letter from J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 19 June 1874 . CD described …
- … Correspondence vol. 22, letter to J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 14 May 1874 , and Insectivorous …
- … acids (see ibid. , letter from J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 26 May [1874] ). The second part …
- … see Correspondence vol. 22, letter to J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 12 June 1874 and n. 1). …
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 14 May 1874
Summary
Discusses digestion by insectivorous plants, asks JSBS to try same experiments using pepsin as the digestive agent to see how the results compare with CD’s observations on digestive power of Drosera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 14 May 1874 |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-17) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9459 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Burdon Sanderson, J. S. …
- … To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 14 May 1874 …
- … this volume, letter from J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 30 March [1874] , and Insectivorous …
- … p. 120). Hydrochloric acid. See letter from J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 30 March [1874] . …
- … fibrin and gluten (see letter from J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 12 May [1874] ). CD refers to …
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 13 September [1873]
Summary
Thanks JSBS for telegraphing his results, which seem very remarkable; feels he should now try Drosera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 13 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-15) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9055 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 18 April 1875
Summary
Encloses a copy of Lord Derby's note of 17 April 1875 (DCP-LETT-9938).
Sir John Lubbock has agreed to meet CD, but no arrangement has been made.
Maybe they should drop the petition, since Lord Derby has agreed to help.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 18 Apr 1875 |
Classmark: | University of the Witwatersrand, Historical Papers Research Archive (A237f, letters to Sir John Burdon Sanderson) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9939F |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Burdon Sanderson, J. S. …
- … To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 18 April 1875 …
- … petition had been drawn up by Burdon Sanderson ( Correspondence vol. 23, letter from J. …
- … Burdon Sanderson, 12 February 1875 ). For CD’s work on the subject, see ibid. , Appendix VI). CD’s son-in-law, Richard Buckley Litchfield , was at Down from 17 to 18 April 1875 (Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). Joseph Dalton Hooker was president of the Royal Society of London. See Correspondence vol. 23, letters from J. …
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 21 August [1874]
Summary
Reports difficulties in experiments on digestion of fibro-cartilage. Asks about JSBS’s experiments with artificial digestive fluids.
JSBS must read Hooker’s address at Belfast [Rep. BAAS 44 (1874): 103–16] to see what a magnificent digester Nepenthes is.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 21 Aug [1874] |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-25); DAR 147: 415 (copy) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9605 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Burdon Sanderson, J. S. …
- … To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 21 August [1874] …
- … Burdon Sanderson had also suggested soaking gluten in weak hydrochloric acid to remove the starch before putting it on Drosera (sundew) leaves. Francis Darwin’s experiments with fibro-cartilage are reported in Insectivorous plants , p. 104. Hyaline: glassy. Joseph Dalton Hooker read an address to the department of botany and zoology at the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, which took place in Belfast from 19 to 26 August 1874 ( J. …
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 12 June 1874
Summary
JSBS’s article in Nature ["Venus’s fly-trap", 10 (1874): 105–7, 127–8] could not have been better done.
Has found another plant, Pinguicula, which can catch and digest flies.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 12 June 1874 |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-18) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9489 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 9 October 1874
Summary
Has been testing the digestive powers of Drosera; wants to know whether a group of substances that elicit similar responses are related.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 9 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-19) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9669 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 15 and 19 April [1875]
Summary
Has written to Lord Derby about the vivisection issue and urged him to speak to the proper members of the Cabinet to prevent "hasty legislation versus science". CD offered to send the sketch of the bill that has been drafted or a small deputation to wait on any member of the Cabinet. Lubbock does not think the petition should be presented as he feels sure that nothing will be done this session.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 15 and 19 Apr 1875 |
Classmark: | University of the Witwatersrand, Historical Papers Research Archive (A237f, letters to Sir John Burdon Sanderson) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9934 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson [11 April 1875]
Summary
"We have not a day to lose if our [Vivisection] Bill or our petition is to do any good". Reports on the activities of the opposition and the attitude of politicians on the subject. Believes a meeting with a minister should be arranged and thinks Lord Derby would be a good man. "All will depend on some half-dozen or 9 or 12 men agreeing on the bill."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | [11 Apr 1875] |
Classmark: | University of the Witwatersrand, Historical Papers Research Archive (A237f, letters to Sir John Burdon Sanderson) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9923 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 25 July 1873
Summary
Describes his recent work on Drosera digestion of organic materials, e.g., albumen and gelatin. Edward Frankland has given CD a rough test for pepsin. Some plant extracts cause as much inflection as meat. Has found some reversible inflection with heat and perhaps some heat rigor. Has measured the extreme sensitivity of Drosera with very dilute solution of ammonium phosphate.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 25 July 1873 |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8987 |
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 14 September [1873]
Summary
Very pleased at JSBS’s discovery ["On the electrical phenomena which accompany the contractions of the leaf of Dionaea muscipula", Rep. BAAS 43 (1873): 133].
Asks for pure animal substances [proteins] for Drosera experiments. His other sources have been T. L. Brunton, Edward Frankland, W. A. Miller (now dead), and Hoffmann of Berlin [A. W. von Hofmann?].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 14 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9056 |
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 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Burdon Sanderson, J. S. …
- … To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 16 July 1875 …
- … Correspondence vol. 21, letter to J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 24 June 1873 ). For more on the …
- … see Correspondence vol. 22, letter from J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 30 March [1874] ). The …
- … Correspondence vol. 22, letter to J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 14 May 1874 ). He died on 15 May …
To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 30 April [1876]
Summary
Suggests JSBS’s new machine for observing arterial action be used to test CD’s hypothesis that blushing is caused by thinking intensely about a part of the body and thus releasing the arteries.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
Date: | 30 Apr [1876] |
Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-01) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10485 |
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 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … Huxley , and John Scott Burdon Sanderson ; see letter to J. S. Burdon Sanderson, [11 …
- … vivisection, see the letter to J. S. Burdon Sanderson, [11 April 1874] . Joseph Dalton …
- … Power Cobbe (see letter to J. S. Burdon Sanderson, [11 April 1875] and n. 3); the Royal …
- … respectively (see letter from J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 12 April [1875] and n. …
- … 5, and letter to J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 15 and 19 April [1875] and n. 6). On the …
To R. B. Litchfield [24 April 1875]
Summary
On the petition by scientists regarding vivisection and plans for presenting it in Parliament.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Buckley Litchfield |
Date: | [24 Apr 1875] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 58373) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9924 |
To T. H. Huxley 21 May 1875
Summary
CD believes Playfair’s bill would not restrict demonstrations under anaesthetic.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 21 May 1875 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 316) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9986 |
To J. D. Hooker 20 July [1874]
Summary
"It is grand about Nepenthes."
JDH is welcome to notice in any way any of CD’s published or unpublished results with insectivorous plants. Gives an abstract of his observations on Drosera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 20 July [1874] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/3/6 Insectivorous plants 1873–8: 32–37) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9555 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … from J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 13 August [1873] , and letter to J. S. Burdon Sanderson, …
- … carboxylic acids. See letter from J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 30 March [1874] ). See letter …
- … J. D. Hooker, 18 July 1874 and n. 2). In the summer of 1873, CD had described his work on Drosera (sundew) to John Scott Burdon Sanderson , …
letter | (74) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Darwin, Francis | (1) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (36) |
Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
Frankland, Edward | (5) |
Romanes, G. J. | (4) |
Brunton, T. L. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (74) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (36) |
Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
Frankland, Edward | (5) |
Romanes, G. J. | (4) |