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EH88202575 Note: 1839--1882 Charles Darwin's Address Book. Text Image

skeletons of domesticated and wild animals, finding, for example, that domesticated ducks, which walk more and do not migrate, have heavier skeletons and thicker leg bones. In 1856, Darwin began sending specimens out to have skeletons prepared. See the illustrations in Variation here. Sowerby G.B. 3 Albert Terrace [Private by Gates] Rd Hampstead Hill. 5£ per week 6 hours per di[illeg]. 9, Pembroke Sq Kensington W. George Brettingham Sowerby II. Pembroke Square address seen 1844-1857. Sharpey Dr. 33

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F1942 Periodical contribution: Darwin, C. R. et al. 1858. Memorial of the promoters and cultivators of science on the subject of the proposed severance from the British Museum of its natural history collections, addressed to Her Majesty's Government. House of Commons Papers; Accounts and Papers (XXXIII.499) 456 (23 July): 1-5. Text Image PDF

. Gaskoin, F.L.S. D. W. Mitchell, Secretary to the Zoological Society of London, F.L.S., c. c. c. Philip Lutley Sclater, M.A., Fellow of Christ Church College, Oxford. George Bush, F.R.S., F.R.C.S.E, c. W. Macdonald, M.D. E. W. H. Holdsworth, F.L.S., F.Z.S. John J. Bennett, F.R.S.L.S. John Percy, M.D., F.R.S. M. Henderson, M.D., F.R.S. John Carrick Moore, M.A., F.R.S. John Gould, F.R.S. Robert Stephenson, M.P., F.R.S. George Peacock, Dean of Ely, F.R.S. Charles Darwin, F.R.S., c. J. F. W. Herschel, M

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F2547 Periodical contribution: Darwin, C. R. 1873. Testimonial to Dr. James Murie. Medical Times and Gazette1, (29 March): 350. Text PDF

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 350 Testimonial to Dr. James Murie. An opinion having been expressed that it might not be inappropriate to present Dr. James Murie, formerly Prosector to the Zoological Society of London, with a substantial recognition of the services which he has rendered to science by his numerous memoirs printed in the Proceedings and Transactions of the Zoological Society and other scientific journals, we, the undersigned, have pleasure in acquiescing in

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F2111 Book contribution: Darwin, C. R. 1896. [Recollections of Darwin and correspondence with Romanes, 1875-1881]. In E. D. Romanes ed., The life and letters of George John Romanes. 6th impression. London: Longmans, 1908. Text

honorary members. Accordingly you were made an hon. member all by yourself; but later on it was thought, on the one hand, that you might feel lonely, and on the other that in a Physiological Society the most suitable companion for you was Dr. Sharpey. Perhaps a 'secretary' ought not to be giving all the details about committee meetings, but if not, I know you will take it in confidence. It seems to me that you never fully realise the height of your pedestal, so that I am glad of any little opportunity

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F1416 Book contribution: Darwin, C. R. 1882. [Extracts from Darwin's draft chapter 10 of Natural selection]. In Romanes, G. J., Animal intelligence. London: Kegan Paul Trench & Co. Text Image PDF

not appearing to be aware that the fact had been observed before. This writer is Dr. John Topham, whom the late Dr. Sharpey, F.R.S., assured me is a competent observer, and who publishes the account in 'Nature' (xi. 18): A spider constructed its web in an angle of my garden, the sides of which were attached by long threads to shrubs at the height of nearly three feet from the gravel path beneath. Being much exposed to the wind, the equinoctial gales of this autumn destroyed the web several

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F2146 Book: Harris, Stanford. 1888. Mr. Darwin and the Royal Commission on vivisection, being an inquiry into the foundations of the late Mr. Darwin's statements upon this subject. Manchester: "Guardian" Printing Works. Text Image

opinion, or to believe that of the following gentlemen? Dr. Sharpey states (Q. 444) in reference to Majendie's laboratory in Paris: I was so utterly repelled by what I witnessed that I never went back again (explains that the experiments were painful, and without any sufficient object). Majendie made incisions into the skins of rabbits and other creatures to show that the skin is sensitive. Now, surely all the world knows that the skin is sensitive. He put the animals to death finally in a very

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F2146 Book: Harris, Stanford. 1888. Mr. Darwin and the Royal Commission on vivisection, being an inquiry into the foundations of the late Mr. Darwin's statements upon this subject. Manchester: "Guardian" Printing Works. Text Image

horse at the time, the thing really escaped my memory. (6085): In signing that you forgot it? Yes. (6086): And you, I suppose, also forgot what had happened when you sent the next answer, in which it is said that the animals are always rendered unconscious? Yes. Again. Mr. J. Burdon Sanderson (Q. 2607) states that: I am able to form a very correct opinion as to the number of people who are actually engaged in this country in physiological investigation. About the time that Dr. Sharpey was giving

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F3385 Book contribution: Darwin, C. R. 1914. [Letters to John Lubbock and Lubbock's recollections of Darwin]. In Horace Gordon Hutchinson, Life of Sir John Lubbock, Lord Avebury. 2 vols. London. Text PDF

[…] The following portion of a letter from Charles Darwin refers to the same paper: Down, Sunday Morning, 1857. Dear Lubbock—At the Philosophical Club last Thursday, I overheard Dr. Sharpey speaking to Huxley in such high and warm praise of your paper, and Huxley answering in the same tone that it did me good to hear it. And I thought I would tell you, for if you still wish to join the Royal Society, I should think (Sharpey being influential in Council and Secretary) there would be no doubt of

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F1592.1 Book: Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 1. Text Image PDF

Down, Beckenham, Kent. September 2, 1872. My dear Wallace, I write a line to say that I understood but I may of course have been mistaken from Huxley that Bastian distinctly stated that he had watched the development of the scale of Sphagnum: I was astonished, as I knew the appearance of Sphagnum under a high power, and asked a second time; but I repeat that I may have been mistaken. Busk told me that Sharpey had noticed the appearance of numerous Infusoria, in one of the solutions not