To G. J. Romanes 12 July [1875]
Summary
Discusses revisions for Variation, 2d ed.
Discusses experiments involving graft-hybrids.
Alludes to Pangenesis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 12 July [1875] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.471) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10059 |
To G. J. Romanes 18 July 1875
Summary
Comments on GJR’s experiments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 18 July 1875 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.472) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10076 |
To G. J. Romanes 24 September [1875]
Summary
Will propose GJR for membership in Linnean Society.
Discusses GJR’s grafting experiments.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 24 Sept [1875] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.476) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10168 |
To G. J. Romanes 8 October 1875
Summary
CD is circulating certificate proposing GJR for membership in Linnean Society.
Discusses hybrid potatoes from Germany.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 8 Oct 1875 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.477) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10186 |
To G. J. Romanes [4 November 1875]
Summary
Mentions his appearance before Vivisection Commission.
Discusses his plans for planting and observing the carrots sent by GJR.
Mentions views of J. S. Burdon Sanderson on graft-hybrids.
Comments on GJR’s paper ["Instinct and acquisition", Nature 12 (1875): 553–4].
[Letter incorrectly dated "Thursday 8th" by CD.] [!? shd be note not synopsis]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | [4 Nov 1875] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.478) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10239 |
To G. J. Romanes 4 November 1875
Summary
Carrots have arrived; CD has potted them.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 4 Nov 1875 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.479) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10240 |
To G. J. Romanes 17 [December 1875]
Summary
Suggests skin-grafting experiment on birds.
Discusses case of Edwin Ray Lankester; it has aroused his indignation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 17 [Dec 1875] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.481) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10301 |
To G. J. Romanes 26 December 1875
Summary
Sends books.
Discusses GJR’s Pangenesis experiments; views of Galton on the theory.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 26 Dec 1875 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.482) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10325 |
To G. J. Romanes 14 April 1876
Summary
Mentions receiving GJR’s paper on Medusae [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 12 (1876): 524–31].
Will call on GJR in London.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 14 Apr 1876 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.487) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10449 |
To G. J. Romanes 26 April [1876]
Summary
Trip to London delayed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 26 Apr [1876] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.488) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10475 |
To G. J. Romanes 27 April [1876]
Summary
Will call tomorrow morning.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 27 Apr [1876] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.489) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10479 |
To G. J. Romanes 29 April [1876]
Summary
Congratulates GJR on lecture ["The physiology of the nervous system of Medusa", Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 8 (1875–8): 166–77].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 29 Apr [1876] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.490) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10482 |
To G. J. Romanes 29 May [1876]
Summary
Encloses essay by Haeckel criticising Pangenesis [Die Perigenesis der Plastidule (1876)]. Discusses Haeckel’s theory of inheritance.
Asks about the Physiological Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 29 May [1876] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.493) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10516 |
To G. J. Romanes [15 June 1876 or later]
Summary
Describes discovery by his son [Francis Darwin] of protoplasmic filaments extending from small glands in the leaves of Dipsacus [see Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 26 (1877): 4–8].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | [15 June 1876 or later] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.495) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10520 |
To G. J. Romanes 4 June [1876]
Summary
Joseph Fayrer can supply cobra poison.
Discusses vivisection.
Mentions visit to the John Hawkshaws.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 4 June [1876] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.494) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10529 |
To G. J. Romanes 4 January 1877
Summary
Discusses certificate proposing GJR as Fellow of Royal Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 4 Jan 1877 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.504) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10770 |
To G. J. Romanes 24 June [1881]
Summary
Discusses possible case of inherited memory involving Pompilus. Cites similar example of electric eel.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 24 June [1881] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.530) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10813 |
To G. J. Romanes 15 April [1878]
Summary
Regrets that GJR was passed over for membership in Royal Society. Discusses criteria applied by Council.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 15 Apr [1878] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.509) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10929 |
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 |
To G. J. Romanes 27–8 May [1877]
Summary
Discusses Francis Darwin’s paper on teasel [Dipsacus].
Comments on GJR’s investigation of spiritualism.
Comments on book by Grant Allen [Physiological aesthetics (1877)].
Invites him to visit
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 27–8 May [1877] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.514, Mss.B.D25.546) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10973 |