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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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- … The four-page pamphlet transcribed below and entitled 'An Appeal', was composed jointly by …
- … 1863, `in the hope that it may have the desired effect of diminishing cruelty' ( Bromley …
- … 1863, pp. 821–2, under the title `Vermin and traps' ( Letter no. 4282). The wording of the …
- … traps were visited and the hours of suffering that trapped animals experienced. Howitt focused on …
- … campaign literature, made the gamekeeper the embodiment of cruelty. In common with the Darwins’ & …
- … the practice if they were confronted with the evidence (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty …
- … Several responses suggested that a prize should be offered for a humane trap, and Emma accordingly …
- … submitted in competition for the prize, was held at the Royal Horticultural Gardens, South …
- … , 5 & 6 Will. IV c. 59), and the Act for the more effectual prevention of cruelty to animals, …
Darwin and vivisection
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Darwin played an important role in the controversy over vivisection that broke out in late 1874. Public debate was sparked when the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals brought an unsuccessful prosecution against a French physiologist who…
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- … Darwin played an important role in the controversy over vivisection that broke out in late 1874. …
- … Norwich. The prosecution was unsuccessful, but it gave rise to a series of campaigns to increase …
- … It called upon the RSPCA to investigate the nature and scope of vivisections performed in physiology …
- … with its monstrous (as it seems to me) attack on Virchow for experimenting on the Trichinae’ (letter …
- … progress of physiology. He reiterated these concerns in a letter to Thomas Henry Huxley ten days …
- … and public officials, and drew on his own family circle for assistance in preparing a bill for …
- … however, by his deep affection for animals and antipathy to cruelty. Darwin’s fondness for animals, …
- … I love with all my heart’ ( Correspondence vol. 19, letter to ?, 19 May [1871] ). As a …
- … Dalton Hooker requesting his approval as president of the Royal Society of London (letter to J. D. …
- … of pain on animals, and invited legislation to prevent such cruelty, appending a report on …
- … a lengthy paragraph on the treatment of animals in human society, the pain and death they suffered …
- … to make an experiment on a live animal … ( Report of the Royal Commission on vivisection , …
- … Lyon Playfair, 27 May 1875 ). In his testimony before the Royal Commission (see below), Darwin …
