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'An Appeal' against animal cruelty

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The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by Emma and Charles Darwin (see letter from Emma Darwin to W. D. Fox, [29 September 1863]). The pamphlet, which protested against the cruelty of steel vermin…

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  • … Morning Star in 1862 (see Animal World , 1 January 1870, p. 75, 1 February 1872, p. 66). The …
  • … than she expected (see the letter from Emma Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin, [2 September 1863] …
  • … of a prize for a humane trap ( Animal World , 1 January 1870, p. 75). The prize was still …
  • … England and Wales every night ( Animal World , 1 January 1870, p. 75). Under these circumstances, …
  • … horses with sore necks (see letter from Emma Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin, [23 April 1852] (DAR …
  • … of what it meant to be morally distinguished and civilised (Turner 1980, pp. 17–45, Thomas 1984, pp. …
  • … 'biocentricism' following the publication of Origin (Turner 1980, pp. 60–2, 124–128, …
  • … to cruelty to animals in nineteenth-century England, see Turner 1980. 2 This sentence, …
  • … Kent, in 1861: John Higwood, under-gamekeeper, age 34, and William Folgate, gamekeeper, age 50 …

Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?

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Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…

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  • … Drosera filiformis . Hooker, with the assistance of William Turner Thiselton-Dyer, was engaged in a …
  • … (letter from ?, [1873?]). The Scottish physician William Main suggested that facial movements could …
  • … & sadness & decay with the reverse—” ( letter from William Main, 2 April 1873 ). The …
  • … or previously acquired knowledge” (A. R. Wallace 1870, p. 204). Moggridge suggested instead that …
  • … in  Nature  magazine, forwarding a letter from William Huggins on a case of inherited instinct in …
  • … noted his passion for collecting, the value of Euclid and William Paley as educational influences, …
  • … Lubbock, Herbert Spencer, John Tyndall, George Busk, and William Spottiswoode met with Darwin in …
  • … June, stayed with the Farrers in Surrey and with their son William in Southampton in August, and …