Finn, Michael A. and Stark, James F. 2015. Medical science and the Cruelty to Animals Act 1876: a re-examination of anti-vivisectionism in provincial Britain. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 49: 12–23.
To W. D. Fox 23 March [1842]
Summary
Letter of condolence on the death of WDF’s wife [Harriet Fletcher Fox].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 23 Mar [1842] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 57) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-624 |
To W. D. Fox [23 August 1841]
Summary
Consents to be godfather to WDF’s child.
Sends family news.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | [23 Aug 1841] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 61) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-606 |
Drummond, Henry Maurice. 1843. Catalogue of the birds found in Corfu and the other Ionian islands, also on the coast of Albania; from notes made during a sojourn of four years … With notes by H. E. Strickland. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12: 412–23.
Sharpe, Daniel. 1856. On the last elevation of the Alps; with notices of the heights at which the sea has left traces of its action on their sides. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 12: 102–23.
To A. R. Wallace [24 June 1867]
Summary
CD now acknowledges that the sometimes very great sexual, i.e., ornamental, differences in fishes offer a difficulty to the view that females are not brightly coloured on account of the danger to propagation of the species.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | [24 June 1867] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add 46434, f. 74) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5404 |
Watson, Robert Boog. 1866. On the marine origin of the parallel roads of Glen Roy. (Abstract.) Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 22 (1865–6): 9–12.
Huxley, Thomas Henry. 1868h. On some organisms living at great depths in the North Atlantic Ocean. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science n.s. 8: 203–12.
To Asa Gray 23 [January 1861]
Summary
Is glad AG will publish [pamphlet of his reviews of Origin]. Insists on bearing the costs. Encloses list of institutions and individuals to whom he would send copies.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Asa Gray |
| Date: | 23 [Jan 1861] |
| Classmark: | Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (12) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3050 |
[Hesse-Wartegg, Ernst A. von.] 1875c. Insektenfressende Pflanzen. Fremden-Blatt, 10 August 1875, pp. 11–12, and 11 August 1875, pp. 11–12.
To J. J. Moulinié 23 October [1869]
Summary
Would be delighted to have JJM translate new book [Descent].
Can CD legally bring out new edition of Origin in France with new publisher? Has been ill-used by V. Masson and C. Royer. Wants edition without Royer’s preface.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jean Jacques Moulinié |
| Date: | 23 Oct [1869] |
| Classmark: | Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. suppl. 66, ff. 11–12) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6955 |
To T. L. Brunton 19 November 1881
Summary
Wishes to contribute to subscription to pay legal expenses of David Ferrier [in vivisection prosecution].
Comments on physiological papers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 19 Nov 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 171 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13490 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 49: 12–23. …
- … 12); he was the first physiologist to be prosecuted under the terms of the Act. On the subscription fund, see British Medical Journal , 19 November 1881, p. 834. For more on the controversy surrounding Ferrier’s experimental work, see Finn and Stark 2015 . On CD’s earlier involvement in the vivisection debates, see Correspondence vol. 23, …
To H. N. Moseley 23 and 30 January 1879
Summary
Has told John Lubbock how highly he thinks of HNM’s work, and has heard that HMN’s claims will be fully considered.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
| Date: | 23 and 30 Jan 1879 |
| Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 12) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11843F |
BLOS: Biographiskt lexicon öfver namnkunnige svenska män. 23 vols. in 12 and supplement (1836). Uppsala, Sweden: Palmbland, Sebell & Co. Orebro, Sweden: N. M. Lindh. 1835–57.
From W. D. Fox 9 December [1868]
Summary
Hybrid geese.
Proportions of sexes in sheep and cattle.
Pairing habits of crows.
| Author: | William Darwin Fox |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Dec [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 84.1: 126–7, DAR 85: B36–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6455 |
To John Lubbock 23 September [1856]
Summary
Sends review by Quatrefages [de Bréau] of Owen’s Parthenogenesis [1849].
J. D. Dana’s congratulations on JL’s marriage.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Date: | 23 Sept [1856] |
| Classmark: | DAR 283: 12 (EH 88206461) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1960 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 23 June 1874
Summary
Has found Pinguicula excited by bits of leaves; appears to digest leaves and seeds. Plant not only insectivorous but graminivorous. Asks WTT-D to identify seeds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 23 June 1874 |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 12–13) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9508 |
Mer, Émile. 1876. Des effets de l’immersion sur les feuilles aériennes. [Read 14 July 1876.] Bulletin de la Société botanique de France 23: 243–58.
Kerner, Anton. 1874. Vorläufige Mittheilungen über die Bedeutung der Asyngamie für die Entstehung neuer Arten. [Read 21 January 1874.] Berichte des naturwissenschaftlich-medizinischen Vereines in Innsbruck 5 (1875): 3–12.
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