To H. A. Pitman [13 May 1879]
Summary
Appreciates award of the Baly Medal and hopes to attend ceremony on 26 June.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Alfred Pitman |
| Date: | [13 May 1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 46 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12047 |
To Lyon Playfair 26 May 1875
Summary
Writes about the Vivisection Bill; there is great fear that it may prevent demonstration dissections on insensible animals.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair of St Andrews |
| Date: | 26 May 1875 |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Playfair 206) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9994 |
To J. D. Hooker 12 September [1873]
Summary
Thanks JDH and Thiselton-Dyer for useful information.
Is surprised Mimosa albida is not sensitive to water. Asks that they try again, or lend it to him.
Remembers a walk in Brazil in great bed of Mimosa.
After JDH left, CD was very bad, with much loss of memory and severe shocks continually passing through his brain.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 12 Sept [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 274–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9052 |
To Joseph Lister 7 October 1878
Summary
Suggests that benzoic acid would be a deadly poison to bacteria and their allies.
Is puzzled about the use of borax as a disinfectant because in his experiments Drosera were not in the least injured by boracic acid.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Lister |
| Date: | 7 Oct 1878 |
| Classmark: | Godlee 1917, p. 387 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11719A |
To G. H. Darwin 27–8 February [1881]
Summary
Describes lecture at Royal Institution by J. S. Burdon Sanderson on movement of plants and animals; JSBS’s preliminary part was so long that he never got to the plants.
Comments on the triumph of the ladies in the voting at Cambridge.
Mentions F. Galton’s visit to Down, a call on the Huxleys, and a visit with the Duke of Argyll.
Tells a story about the absent-mindedness of Burdon Sanderson.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Howard Darwin |
| Date: | 27–8 Feb [1881] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.1: 103 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13068 |
To Francis Galton 18 [December 1881]
Summary
Can FG call on Monday evening?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Galton |
| Date: | 18 [Dec 1881] |
| Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/3/2/2/12 Letter 2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13560 |
To Frithiof Holmgren [14] April 1881
Summary
CD gives his opinion on vivisection with the understanding that the whole letter will be published. Worked for Act of Parliament, but disapproves of the one passed. CD convinced English physiologists do not perform cruel experiments.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frithiof Holmgren |
| Date: | [14] Apr 1881 |
| Classmark: | Uppsala University Library (Frithiof Holmgren Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13115 |
To J. D. Hooker 25 March [1874]
Summary
Thanks for information about Hedychium. Hopes wings of Sphinx will be found covered with pollen for that will be a fine bit of prophecy from the structure of a flower to special and new means of fertilisation.
Has been at Descent so hard he has done nothing, not even H. Spencer’s answer.
Has not yet read Croll ["Ocean currents", London Edinburgh & Dublin Philos. Mag. 47 (1874): 94–122, 168–90].
Has heard nothing about Carter and Eozoon. Eozoon, he infers, is done for.
Has read Belt [The naturalist in Nicaragua (1874)]: best of all natural history travel books.
Has written to Fritz Müller about leaf-carrying ants.
Hopes to resume work on Drosera.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 25 Mar [1874] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 317–19 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9372 |
To F. J. Cohn 3 January 1878
Summary
Comments on discovery of micro-organisms in disease.
Describes experiments carried out by Francis Darwin on filaments of Dipsacus.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
| Date: | 3 Jan 1878 |
| Classmark: | Joseph R. Sakmyster, ADS Autographs (dealer) (no date) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11310 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … J. Cohn, 31 December 1877 ), and he reproduced figures from some of Koch’s photographs in his ‘Lectures on the infective processes of disease’ ( Burdon Sanderson …
- … J. Cohn, 31 December 1877 . Cohn had sent CD the third and last issue of the second volume of Beiträge zur Biologie der Pflanzen (Contributions to the biology of plants), a journal that he edited. It contained an article by Robert Koch , ‘Verfahren zur Untersuchung, zum Conserviren und Photographiren der Bacterien’ (Method for examining, preserving and photographing bacteria; Koch 1877 ). It is not known when John Scott Burdon Sanderson …
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 |
To G. J. Romanes [7 December 1874]
Summary
Speaks of visiting GJR at the Brown Institution.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | [7 Dec 1874] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.453) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9747 |
To G. J. Romanes 25 April 1881
Summary
Comments on GJR’s letter in the Times [25 Apr 1881] concerning vivisection. Mentions activity of anti-vivisectionists, G. R. Jesse and F. P. Cobbe.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 25 Apr 1881 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.589) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13138 |
To Horace Darwin [15 October 1873]
Summary
Sends notes on waxy secretion on leaves for F. M. Balfour; cannot procure any more Dionaea.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Horace Darwin |
| Date: | [15 Oct 1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 258: 548a |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9096F |
From Charles and Francis Darwin to G. J. Romanes 2 January [1877]
Summary
Agrees to propose GJR for membership in Royal Society.
Remarks on GJR’s paper on Medusae [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 167 (1877): 659–752].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 2 Jan [1877] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.503) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10765 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Burdon Sanderson’s signature appears on Romanes’s certificate; seventeen people in total signed the form (Royal Society archives, GB 117, EC/1879/18). Romanes’s paper, in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London , was the published version of his Croonian lecture, delivered on 16 December 1875, ‘Preliminary observations on the locomotor system of Medusæ’ ( G. J. …
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| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, Horace | (1) |
| Dew-Smith, A. G. | (1) |
| Galton, Francis | (1) |
| Holmgren, Frithiof | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Jesse, G. R. | (1) |
| Krause, Ernst | (1) |
| Lister, Joseph | (1) |
| Paget, James | (1) |
| Pitman, H. A. | (1) |
| Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | (1) |
| Stanley, E. H. | (1) |
| Tyndall, John | (1) |
