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 |
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 …
From G. J. Romanes 11 June [1876]
Summary
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 T. H. Huxley 18 January 1875
Summary
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 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 |
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. …
Romanes, G. J. (1848–94)
Matches: 1 hit
- … 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
Summary
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 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
Summary
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 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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