To Lyon Playfair [before 29 April 1875]
Summary
Sends a sketch of a bill on vivisection that he understands LP wishes to see.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair of St Andrews |
| Date: | [before 29 Apr 1875] |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: C18 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9909 |
From Lyon Playfair 29 April 1875
Summary
Supports the Vivisection Bill, with a more humanitarian preamble. Working to get it through the House of Lords.
| Author: | Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair of St Andrews |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Apr 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 48 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9956 |
To Lyon Playfair 15 May [1875]
Summary
Discusses Vivisection Bill.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair of St Andrews |
| Date: | 15 May [1875] |
| Classmark: | Bonhams (dealers) (10 November 2009); DAR 147: 245 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9980 |
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 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 |
To Lyon Playfair 26 May 1875
Summary
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 Lyon Playfair 27 May 1875
Summary
The Vivisection Bill was defeated because it was repudiated by one of its own fathers: J. S. Burdon Sanderson.
| Author: | Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair of St Andrews |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 May 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9996 |
To Lyon Playfair 28 May [1875]
Summary
Writes again on the Vivisection Bill, expresses his desire not to ruin the progress of physiology whilst avoiding useless vivisection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Lyon Playfair, 1st Baron Playfair of St Andrews |
| Date: | 28 May [1875] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Playfair 207) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9997 |
| letter | (8) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Playfair, Lyon | (4) |
| Playfair, Lyon | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Frankland, Edward | (1) |
| Playfair, Lyon | (8) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Frankland, Edward | (1) |
| 1875 | (8) |
