To G. J. Romanes 1 October [1878]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Oct 1st
My dear Romanes
I have just read your article in the Fortnightly.2 It seems to me capitally done, & I honour you for taking so much trouble pro bono publico3 of the mass of readers. Good Lord, what nonsense the article in the Edinburgh must be. It is a bad look out that the Editor, whoever he may be, should be so ignorant & so wanting in judgment as to have admitted such an article.4 But the poor old Edinburgh seems to have played out its part & is ready for extinction.
Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Farrer, Thomas Henry. 1878. The principle of copyright. Fortnightly Review 24: 836–51.
[Froude, James Anthony.] 1878. The Copyright Commission. [Review of Report of the Copyright Commission and Minutes of evidence taken before the Royal Commission on Copyright.] Edinburgh Review 148: 295–343.
Romanes, George John. 1876. The physiology of the nervous system of medusae. [Read 28 April 1876.] Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain 8 (1875–8): 166–77.
Wellesley index: The Wellesley index to Victorian periodicals 1824–1900. Edited by Walter E. Houghton et al. 5 vols. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1966–89.
Summary
Comments on GJR’s article in Fortnightly Review ["The beginning of nerves", n.s. 24 (1878): 509–26].
Comments on "poor old" Edinburgh Review.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11712
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- George John Romanes
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.550)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11712,” accessed on 19 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11712.xml