To Francis Darwin [before 22 July 1876]1
My dear F.
I shd be obliged if you cd inform your committee that am very unwilling to attend the deputation, as the excitement & fatigue wd almost certainly knock me up.2 Nor wd I attend, unless assured that the d. wd recommend to G. beyond their advice by the R. Commiss, so that they may believe due regard not only for the interest [of the] lower animals, but of physiology interest of physiology which I believe to be to be of to be of utmost importance for the good of mankind, as well as with respect to the lower animals.3 My [absence] or [presence] I cann not believe that the [presence] as a member of the deputation can be of any importance & therefore I hope that I may be excused.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
French, Richard D. 1975. Antivivisection and medical science in Victorian society. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
Report of the Royal Commission on vivisection: Report of the Royal Commission on the practice of subjecting live animals to experiments for scientific purposes; with minutes of evidence and appendix; 1876 (C.1397, C.1397-1) XLI.277, 689. House of Commons Parliamentary Papers.
Sharpey-Schafer, Edward Albert. 1927. History of the Physiological Society during its first fifty years, 1876–1926. London: Cambridge University Press.
Summary
Asks FD to write on his behalf and say that he is unwilling to join a deputation [on vivisection] and that he believes in the need to protect physiology as well as lower animals.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10747
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Francis Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 202: 40
- Physical description
- ADraft 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10747,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10747.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24