From G. J. Romanes [after 8 January 1877]
Summary
Returns E. Haeckel’s Perigenesis [der Plastidule (1876)]. EH’s "plastidules" do not differ from Spencer’s "physiological units". Does not see that biology gains anything from EH’s theory.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 8 Jan 1877] |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 93 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10554 |
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 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 |
From G.J. Romanes [June 1877]
Summary
Notes on variation and selection; discussion of how selection could act to the advantage of a group but not to that of an individual within the group.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [June 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 143–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10979 |
To G. J. Romanes 5 June 1877
Summary
Sends quotation from Lamarck’s Philosophie zoologique [(1809), 2: 318] on effects of habit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 5 June 1877 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.515) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10983 |
From G. J. Romanes 6 June 1877
Summary
Sends MS notes on intercrossing.
Describes different reactions of rabbits and guinea-pigs to stinging nettles.
Has made a number of grafts at Kew.
Encloses notes on natural selection; discussion of factors mitigating the swamping influence of intercrossing on incipient variations.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 June 1877 |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 53; DAR 47: 139–42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10986 |
To G. J. Romanes 11 June [1877]
Summary
Discusses effects of natural selection. Discusses absence of blending between geographical races as a problem. Discusses effect of natural selection on productivity of an organism.
Comments on GJR’s review of Grant Allen’s book [Physiological aesthetics (1877)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 11 June [1877] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.516) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10996 |
From G. J. Romanes 16 June [1877]
Summary
Galton agrees with GJR about rudimentary organs.
GJR’s note referred to possibility of selection acting on organic types as distinguished from individuals.
Thinks Grant Allen has not made out his point [in Physiological aesthetics (1877)], but his fundamental principle probably has much truth.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 June [1877] |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 55 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11004 |
To G. J. Romanes 9 August [1877]
Summary
Comments on GJR’s papers in Nature [see 11103].
Mentions manuscript by Miss Lawless on fertilisation in plants.
Discusses work of Francis Darwin on Dipsacus
and his own experiments on Drosera.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 9 Aug [1877] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.518) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11096 |
To G. J. Romanes 10 August [1877]
Summary
Comments on GJR’s paper in Nature.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 10 Aug [1877] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.519) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11099 |
From G. J. Romanes 11 August 1877
Summary
Believes in differentiated nerve-tracts [in Medusa] because of experiment in which contractile waves blocked. [See GJR’s "Evolution of nerves", Nature 16 (1877): 231–3, 269–71, 289–93.] Did not know author of MS was Miss Lawless. Describes experiment on contractile waves in Aurelia. Also studying starfish.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Aug 1877 |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 57 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11103 |
From G. J. Romanes 13 August 1877
Summary
Thanks for CD’s comments on ["Evolution of nerves"]. Admits that he may have "been too keen in my scent after nerves".
Notes effect of reversing direction of current in muscular tissue.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Aug 1877 |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 63 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11105 |
To G. J. Romanes [1 and 2 December 1877]
Summary
Comments on GJR’s lecture on evolution.
Regrets failure of graft experiments.
Hopes GJR will not give up on Pangenesis. Mentions article by Gustav Jäger on Pangenesis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 1 and 2 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.526) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11265 |
From G. J. Romanes 2 December 1877
Summary
Thanks for letter. Values CD’s opinion more than that of anybody else.
Perfectly astonished at reception CD got among popular audiences at GJR’s lectures.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 68 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11283 |
From G. J. Romanes [before 6 June 1877]
Summary
Notes on natural selection; discussion of factors mitigating the swamping influence of intercrossing on incipient variations.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 6 June 1877] |
Classmark: | DAR 47: 139–42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13839 |
From Charles and Francis Darwin to G. J. Romanes 2 January [1877]
Summary
Agrees to propose GJR for membership in Royal Society.
Remarks on GJR’s paper on Medusae [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 167 (1877): 659–752].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 2 Jan [1877] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.503) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10765 |
From Charles and Francis Darwin to G. J. Romanes 5 December 1877
Summary
Discusses planting onions for experiment.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | George John Romanes |
Date: | 5 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.527) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11270 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (8) |