To T. H. Huxley 21 May 1875
Summary
CD believes Playfair’s bill would not restrict demonstrations under anaesthetic.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 21 May 1875 |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 316) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9986 |
From Lyon Playfair 21 May 1875
Summary
The Government has decided to hold a Royal Commission on vivisection with Lord Cardwell as chairman.
| Author: | Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair of St Andrews |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 May 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 49 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9987 |
From F. F. Hallett 21 May 1875
Summary
Insists that he, not Le Couteur, was the first to recognise and exploit variation within wheat varieties. Disturbed he was not acknowledged in Variation.
| Author: | Frederic Francis Hallett |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 May 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9988 |
From Lyon Playfair to Edward Frankland 21 May 1875
Summary
EF’s first impression of LP’s bill is the correct one. Darwin, Huxley and Burdon Sanderson prepared it. LP merely put it into Parliamentary shape.
| Author: | Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair of St Andrews |
| Addressee: | Edward Frankland |
| Date: | 21 May 1875 |
| Classmark: | The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9988A |
Document type
| letter | (4) |
Author
| Playfair, Lyon | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hallett, F. F. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Frankland, Edward | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Playfair, Lyon | (2) |
| Frankland, Edward | (1) |
| Hallett, F. F. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
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Journal of researches
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Within two months of the Beagle’s arrival back in England in October 1836, Darwin, although busy with distributing his specimens among specialists for description, and more interested in working on his geological research, turned his mind to the task of…
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