To G. R. Jesse 21 April 1881
Summary
Vivisection; CD’s exchange with Holmgren.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Richard Jesse |
| Date: | 21 Apr 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13131 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
| letter | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Pye-Smith, P. H. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Galton, Francis | (1) |
| Holmgren, Frithiof | (1) |
| Jesse, G. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Pye-Smith, P. H. | (2) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Galton, Francis | (1) |
| Holmgren, Frithiof | (1) |
| Jesse, G. R. | (1) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (1) |
