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To Lyon Playfair [before 29 April 1875]
Summary
Sends a sketch of a bill on vivisection that he understands LP wishes to see.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair of St Andrews |
| Date: | [before 29 Apr 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: C18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9909 |
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 |
From Lyon Playfair 29 April 1875
Summary
Supports the Vivisection Bill, with a more humanitarian preamble. Working to get it through the House of Lords.
| Author: | Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair of St Andrews |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Apr 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 48 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9956 |
From Lyon Playfair 27 May 1875
Summary
The Vivisection Bill was defeated because it was repudiated by one of its own fathers: J. S. Burdon Sanderson.
| Author: | Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair of St Andrews |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 May 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9996 |
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 |
Document type
| letter | (5) |
Author
| Playfair, Lyon | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Playfair, Lyon | (2) |
Date
| 1875 | (5) |
