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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 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 |
From G. J. Romanes 10 September 1878
Summary
Thanks for letter and book [J. R. L. Delboeuf, La psychologie (1876)].
| Author: | George John Romanes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Sept 1878 |
| Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 79 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11687 |
