From G. J. Romanes 14 December 1880
Linnean Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W.:
December 14, 1880.
My dear Mr. Darwin,—
I am glad that you think the experiment worth trying. As you say you have not got the requisite apparatus for trying it, I have written to Professor Tyndall to see if he would allow it to be carried through at the Royal Institution.1
If I had known you were in town I should have called to tell you about the Echinoderms.2 My paper on them is now written (70 pages), so I have begun to come here (Burlington House) to read up systematically all the literature I can find on animal intelligence. Hence it is that, having left your letter at home, and not remembering the address upon it, I have to send this answer to Down.3
[Butler] is a lunatic beneath all contempt—an object of pity were it not for his vein of malice.4
Very sincerely and most respectfully yours, | geo. j. romanes.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Butler, Samuel. 1880. Unconscious memory: a comparison between the theory of Dr. Ewald Hering, … and the ‘Philosophy of the unconscious’ of Dr. Edward von Hartmann. London: David Bogue.
Romanes, George John. 1882a. Animal intelligence. International Scientific Series, vol. 41. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co.
Romanes, George John and Ewart, James Cossar. 1881. Observations on the locomotor system of Echinodermata. [Read 24 March 1881.] Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 172: 829–85.
Summary
Glad CD thinks experiment worth trying [see 12904]. Has written to John Tyndall for permission to do it at Royal Institution.
Paper on echinoderms written [with J. C. Ewart, "Locomotor system of Echinodermata", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 172 (1881): 829–85].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-12913
- From
- George John Romanes
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Linnean Society
- Source of text
- E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 104
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 12913,” accessed on 7 October 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-12913.xml