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To Lyon Playfair   26 May 1875

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Writes about the Vivisection Bill; there is great fear that it may prevent demonstration dissections on insensible animals.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair of St Andrews
Date:  26 May 1875
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Playfair 206)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9994

From R. F. Cooke   26 May 1875

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A set of electros of the woodcuts to Variation was sent to an Italian publisher in 1869, but no reply or payment has been made since then.

Author:  Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  26 May 1875
Classmark:  DAR 171: 453
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9995
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William Yarrell

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William Yarrell was a London businessman, a stationer and bookseller, who became an expert on British birds and fish, writing standard reference works on both.  He was a member of several science and natural history societies, including the Linnean Society…

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