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 |
To A. G. Dew-Smith 19 October [1873]
Summary
Sends Dionaea plant for experiment involving temperature.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albert George Dew-Smith |
Date: | 19 Oct [1873] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.434) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9101 |
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 T. H. Huxley 19 May 1875
Summary
Lyon Playfair’s bill [on vivisection] is unacceptable to all teachers of physiology. It prohibits dissections for demonstrations to students. He will have to repudiate it. Asks CD’s advice.
Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 May 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 340 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9985 |
To G. J. Romanes [4 November 1875]
Summary
Mentions his appearance before Vivisection Commission.
Discusses his plans for planting and observing the carrots sent by GJR.
Mentions views of J. S. Burdon Sanderson on graft-hybrids.
Comments on GJR’s paper ["Instinct and acquisition", Nature 12 (1875): 553–4].
[Letter incorrectly dated "Thursday 8th" by CD.] [!? shd be note not synopsis]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | [4 Nov 1875] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.478) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10239 |
To Edward Frankland 12 July 1873
Summary
Seeks the assistance of a professional chemist in securing a qualitative analysis of the fluid secreted by the glands of Drosera which have the power of dissolving animal matter out of the bodies of insects. [See 8979.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 12 July 1873 |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8977A |
From J. D. Hooker [after 4 September 1874]
Summary
Forwards a letter reporting on a blow-fly trapped by a leaf of Dionaea; decomposition of fly has also decomposed the leaf. JDH has written asking for a strong plant, and explaining the case [of surfeit].
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 4 Sept 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 222–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9615 |
From J. D. Hooker [23 September 1873]
Summary
Thanks for C. E. Norton’s address.
Tyndall’s answer [Nature 8 (1873): 399] has surprised and disappointed him;
great trouble in announcing Tyndall’s election as President Elect [of BAAS] yesterday. Tyndall may throw up the Presidency. Spottiswoode and JDH have concocted a letter telling him the facts.
A very poor dull meeting. Comments on papers by W. C. Williamson, Clerk Maxwell, David Ferrier, Burdon Sanderson [Rep. BAAS 43: lxx–xci, 23–32,126–7, 131–3].
Has heard Huxley is back quite well.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23 Sept 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 173–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9063 |
From T. L. Brunton 2 December 1873
Summary
Offers to experiment on the digestibility of chondrin and chlorophyll by Dionaea for CD.
Has noticed that painters depicting complex expressions give different expressions to the two sides of the face.
Author: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Dec 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 337 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9167 |
From Thomas Allen 29 April 1875
Summary
Encloses extract which suggests that CD and friends oppose any restriction on vivisection; asks CD to state his principles. Another bill is being sketched for Cruelty Society.
Author: | Thomas Allen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Apr 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 52 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9954 |
From Francis Darwin [30 September 1873]
Summary
He is travelling overnight by train from London to Pantlludw and will wake A. R. Ruck with a morningade on his flute.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [30 Sept 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8942F |
To Edward Frankland 21 September [1873]
Summary
Although CD’s experiments with pepsin were unsuccessful, he observed that the glands [of Drosera] as far as acid is concerned act just as the stomach of a mammal. Further experiments detailed. The secretion must contain something analogous to pepsin. [See 9062.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 21 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9061A |
To J. D. Hooker 28 June 1873
Summary
Thanks for Dionaea.
George Bentham’s last Linnean Society [Presidential] Address [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1873): viii–xxix]. Admires it greatly.
CD’s recent work leads him to a different theory [from GB’s] on the separation of the sexes of plants.
Huxley has been at Down working with CD on Drosera – very helpful.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 28 June 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 94: 263–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8956 |
To M. J. Berkeley 10 July 1875
Summary
Enquires about fairy rings.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Miles Joseph Berkeley |
Date: | 10 July 1875 |
Classmark: | The National Library of Wales (NLW St Asaph Diocesan Records SA/CR/219) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10055F |
To Edward Frankland 12 April 1874
Summary
Finding that the leaves of Drosera digest all the phosphate of lime out of bones and then remain clasped over the bones for a long time, CD wants to determine whether it is the phosphate of lime or the animal matter in the bones that keeps them clasped. He asks EF to send 2 or 3 grams of pure phosphate of lime for his testing. [See 9411.] Will experiment in the summer using EF’s suggestion that leaves might serve to test weak sewage. Results of Sanderson’s experiments with acids of great use.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
Date: | 12 Apr 1874 |
Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9405A |
To the Royal Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 3 May 1875
Summary
Regrets he cannot attend proposed meeting [on vivisection]. Hopes legislation may be passed limiting vivisection while not interfering with the progress of physiology.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals |
Date: | 3 May 1875 |
Classmark: | Ira & Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles (dealers) (November 2011) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9959 |
To J. D. Hooker 30 August [1874]
Summary
Thanks JDH for his "quite admirable" address [Rep. BAAS 44 (1874) pt 2: 102–16]. Suggests revisions.
CD thinks he is "now on right track about Utricularia" after wasting several weeks "in fruitless trials and observations".
Mrs Barber’s paper is very curious and ought to be published.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 Aug [1874] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (JDH/6/3 Insectivorous plants 1873–8: 40) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9613 |
To Ernst Krause 10 November 1879
Summary
Only a few copies of the photographs [for German edition of Erasmus Darwin] had been printed, so loss will not be great. CD was rather angry when he wrote [12291] "but it is all over now".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause |
Date: | 10 Nov 1879 |
Classmark: | The Huntington Library (HM 36196) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12304 |
From J. H. Gilbert 31 December 1875
Summary
Discusses fairy rings.
Author: | Joseph Henry Gilbert |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Dec 1875 |
Classmark: | Rothamsted Research (GIL13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10331F |
To G. R. Jesse 21 April 1881
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Richard Jesse |
Date: | 21 Apr 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 185: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13131 |
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Darwin, Francis | (6) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Huxley, T. H. | (5) |
Darwin, C. R. | (60) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (37) |
Hooker, J. D. | (7) |
Frankland, Edward | (5) |
Romanes, G. J. | (4) |
Darwin, C. R. | (134) |
Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (66) |
Hooker, J. D. | (12) |
Darwin, Francis | (6) |
Huxley, T. H. | (6) |