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Darwin Correspondence Project

To G. J. Romanes   [18 January 1879]

From C. Darwin, Down, Beckenham.

I see advertised

Vignoli— Fundamentalgesetz der Intelligenz im Thierreich. Versuch einer vergleich Psychologie 234 pp 8vo Leipz 1879— 4/–1

Footnotes

Romanes was working on a book on animal intelligence (Mental evolution in animals; Romanes 1883). Tito Vignoli’s book was titled Über das Fundamentalgesetz der Intelligenz im Thierreich: Versuch einer vergleichenden Psychologie (On the fundamental law of intelligence in the animal kingdom: an experiment in comparative psychology; Vignoli 1879). It was a translation from the Italian of Vignoli 1877.

Bibliography

Vignoli, Tito. 1877. Della legge fondamentale dell’intelligenza nel regno animale. Saggio di psicologia comparata. Milan: Fratelli Dumolard.

Vignoli, Tito. 1879. Über das Fundamentalgesetz der Intelligenz im Thierreiche: Versuch einer vergleichenden Psychologie. Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus.

Summary

Notes advertisement of Tito Vignoli, Fundamentalgesetz der Intelligenz im Thierreiche [1879].

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-11833
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
George John Romanes
Sent from
Down
Postmark
JA 18 79
Source of text
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.558)
Physical description
pc

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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11833,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11833.xml

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