To J. S. Burdon Sanderson 30 April [1876]
Summary
Suggests JSBS’s new machine for observing arterial action be used to test CD’s hypothesis that blushing is caused by thinking intensely about a part of the body and thus releasing the arteries.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 30 Apr [1876] |
| Classmark: | University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-01) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10485 |
To Lawson Tait 24 April 1876
Summary
The Royal Society have returned RLT’s Nepenthes paper and will not have it read because of unfavourable reports from referees.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Date: | 24 Apr 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 202: 84 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10470 |
To Lawson Tait 5 May 1876
Summary
CD sends the gist of an extremely negative report from the [Royal Society’s] physiological referee on the value of RLT’s modifications of Brücke’s process for isolating pepsin [see 10470].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
| Date: | 5 May 1876 |
| Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10497 |
From J. D. Hooker [18 April 1876]
Summary
JDH has heard from Asa Gray, who approves of the botany primer [Botany (1876)].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [18 Apr 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 49–50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10282 |
From F. M. Balfour [14 December 1876]
Summary
Michael Foster approves of names FMB suggested CD apply to [in proposing FMB to the Royal Society] and adds George Allman, Foster, W. H. Flower, and P. M. Duncan, the only biologists on the Council.
| Author: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [14 Dec 1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 24 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10713 |
From F. M. Balfour [14] December [1876]
Summary
Lists his chief publications and suggests names of biologists in the Royal Society whom CD might ask to sign his nomination certificate.
| Author: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [14] Dec [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 25 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10712 |
To F. M. Balfour 13 December 1876
Summary
CD is glad to propose FMB for Royal Society. Explains information and certificates needed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Maitland Balfour |
| Date: | 13 Dec 1876 |
| Classmark: | National Records of Scotland (GD433/2/103C/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10716 |
From G. J. Romanes 1 June 1876
Summary
Anticipates reading Haeckel’s Perigenesis der Plastidule [1876].
Physiologists will think vivisection bill stringent.
Honorary memberships of Physiological Society created expressly to honour CD.
Working hard at jellyfish just now. Needs snake poison.
| Author: | George John Romanes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 June 1876 |
| Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 52–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10524 |
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- … letter to C. S. Wedgwood, 20 April 1876 ). A bill to regulate vivisection was introduced into the House of Lords on 15 May 1876 ( Hansard Parliamentary Debates 3d ser. vol. 229 col. 665). CD and Romanes had drafted a vivisection bill in 1875, but it had not become law (see Correspondence vol. 23). John Scott Burdon Sanderson and Michael Foster . …
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| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Balfour, F. M. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Tait, Lawson | (2) |
| Balfour, F. M. | (1) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Balfour, F. M. | (3) |
| Tait, Lawson | (2) |
| Burdon Sanderson, J. S. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
