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To Gustaf Retzius   12 February 1875

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His thanks for MGR’s valuable Anatomische Untersuchungen (1872).

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Magnus Gustaf (Gustaf) Retzius
Date:  12 Feb 1875
Classmark:  Centrum för vetenskapshistoria, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien (Gustaf Retzius arkiv, Inbundna serien, Engelsmän I, s 33)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9853A

From J. S. Burdon Sanderson   12 February 1875

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Discusses the experiments with phosphates on Drosera and animals.

Considers the question of preparing a petition on the question of animal experiments, with the aim of promoting rather than hindering science. [Response to 9849.]

Author:  John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  12 Feb 1875
Classmark:  University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-39)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9853B
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2.12 Allan Wyon, Royal Society medal

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< Back to Introduction The Darwin medal of the Royal Society was awarded on a biennial basis from 1890 onwards, as a way of recognising individual achievement in the scientific fields to which Darwin himself had contributed. The first scientist to be…

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  • … < Back to Introduction The Darwin medal of the Royal Society was awarded on a …

Dramatisation script

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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007

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  • … the effects of a mild stroke. GRAY:  212   My dear Hooker…I grind away at [my] …
  • … 211 A GRAY TO JD HOOKER, 21 APR 1882 212 A GRAY TO JD HOOKER, 31 OCT 1886 213 …

Punta Alta, Argentina

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Large fossils of extinct animals

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  • … Fitzroy wishes Darwin well on his trip on land to Rio Negro and comments on the size of the large …

People featured in the Dutch photograph album

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Here is a list of people that appeared in the photograph album Darwin received for his birthday on 12 February 1877 from scientific admirers in the Netherlands. Many thanks to Hester Loeff for identifying and researching them. No. …

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  • … 4 april 1897 Haarlem 212 Dudok de Wit L.C. (Leonard …

People featured in the Dutch photograph album

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List of people appearing in the photograph album Darwin received from scientific admirers in the Netherlands for his birthday on 12 February 1877. We are grateful to Hester Loeff for providing this list and for permission to make her research available.…

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  • 212 Dudok de Wit L.C. (Leonard Corneille)     …

Darwin’s observations on his children

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Charles Darwin’s observations on the development of his children, began the research that culminated in his book The Expression of the emotions in man and animals, published in 1872, and his article ‘A biographical sketch of an infant’, published in Mind…

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  • … [76] CD used this observation in  Expression , p. 212, where he stated: ‘I heard a child, a little …