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To Thomas Spring Rice   [before 7 July 1838]

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Express their concern that the offer for sale to the British Museum, by G. A. Mantell and Thomas Hawkins, of two valuable collections, has been declined.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin; William Buckland; Adam Sedgwick; John Phillips; William Whewell; Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Charles Stokes; William John Hamilton; Edward Stanley; Richard Owen; William Clift; Charles Babbage; John Bostock; Peter Mark Roget; John Taylor; Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2d Marquess of Northampton; William John Broderip
Addressee:  Thomas Spring Rice
Date:  [before 7 July 1838]
Classmark:  House of Commons papers; accounts and papers, 1837/38, XXXVI, 307
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-421F

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To R. A. Cross   May 1875

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Sends a copy of the draft vivisection bill [see 9933] and hopes that it may be approved of and supported by the Government.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Richard Assheton Cross, Viscount Cross of Broughton in Furness
Date:  May 1875
Classmark:  DAR 97: C19–21
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9961

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  • Edward Henry Stanley , the earl of Derby, of 15 April 1875, had been forwarded to Cross, who was home secretary (see letter from E.  H.  Stanley, 17 April 1875 ). The draft vivisection bill had been approved by Joseph Dalton Hooker (the president of the Royal Society), James Paget (the president of the Royal College of Surgeons), George Burrows (the president of the College of Physicians), Richard Owen , …