To G. J. Romanes 23 May 1877
Summary
Thanks him for book by Grant Allen [Physiological aesthetics (1877)].
Comments on dispute over spontaneous generation.
The Council [of the Royal Society] will not print Frank Darwin’s paper on Dipsacus [in Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond.].
Mentions GJR’s grafting experiments
and his investigation of spiritualism.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 23 May 1877 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.513) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10971 |
3.16 Oscar Rejlander, photos
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< Back to Introduction Darwin’s plans for the illustration of his book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872) led him to the Swedish-born painter and photographer, Oscar Gustaf Rejlander. Rejlander gave Darwin the notes that he had…
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Books on the Beagle
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The Beagle was a sort of floating library. Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.
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- … by H. E. Lloyd. 3 vols. London, 1821. ( Narrative 2: 523). § Krusenstern, Adam Johann von …