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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

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  • … found; see, however, the letter to J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 16 July 1875 . The informant …

To Frithiof Holmgren   [14] April 1881

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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

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  • … Correspondence vol 23, letter to J. S. Burdon Sanderson, [11 April 1875] . Louis Pasteur …

To J. D. Hooker   25 March [1874]

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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

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  • … Joseph Knight . See letter to J.  S.  Burdon Sanderson, 21 March 1874  and n.  2. Hooker …

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

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  • 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

From G. J. Romanes   11 June [1876]

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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

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  • Burdon Sanderson had urged Romanes to write in favour of vivisection in the Fortnightly Review (see letter from G. J. …

To R. B. Litchfield   24 April [1875]

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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

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  • … petition, see the letter from J.  S.  Burdon  Sanderson, 23 April [1875] and n. 5. …

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

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  • … see, for example, letter to J.  S.  Burdon Sanderson, 10 February 1875 ). For more on the …

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

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  • … G.  J.  Romanes, 10 July 1874 ). Romanes studied under John Scott Burdon Sanderson , who …

From P. H. Pye-Smith   19 December 1881

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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

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  • Burdon Sanderson , Michael Foster , Thomas Lauder Brunton , and Pye-Smith were members of the Physiological Society committee set up to consider the vivisection issue (for more on the committee, see the letter from G. J. …

To G. J. Romanes   25 April 1881

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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

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  • J.  Romanes, 22 April [1881] . Romanes’s letter on vivisection was published in The Times , 25 April 1881, p. 10. In it, he defended John Scott Burdon Sanderson

From P. H. Pye-Smith   21 December 1881

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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

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  • J. Paget et al. 1881 . Ex parte : from one side (Latin; the sense is partial or prejudiced ( Chambers )). John Scott Burdon Sanderson , …

To Horace Darwin   [15 October 1873]

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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

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  • J. D. Hooker, 30 October [1873] ). This letter, which is in Emma Darwin’s hand, was enclosed with a letter from her to Horace. CD’s research on Dionaea muscipula (Venus fly trap) was published in Insectivorous plants . CD had sent his best specimens to John Scott Burdon Sanderson

From T. H. Huxley   18 January 1875

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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

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  • 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 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

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  • Burdon Sandersons 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. …

Romanes, G. J. (1848–94)

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  • Burdon Sanderson, 1874–6. Honorary secretary of the Physiological Society, set up to influence legislation on vivisection, 1876. FRS 1879. Alum. Cantab . DSB ODNB Record of the Royal Society of London . Bibliography Alum. Cantab. : Alumni Cantabrigienses. A biographical list of all known students, graduates and holders of office at the University of Cambridge, from the earliest times to 1900. Compiled by John Venn and J. …

From G. J. Romanes   2 December 1877

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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

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  • 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

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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

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  • 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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