To G. J. Romanes 7 March 1878
Summary
CD’s gardener says not to sow onion seeds until middle of March. Should he risk sowing them at once?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 7 Mar 1878 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.531) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11405 |
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 Francis Darwin to G. J. Romanes 7 June 1877
Summary
CD is going away and has asked FD to thank GJR for his amusing letter [of 6 June], which CD thinks should be published in Nature. CD thinks the guinea pig theory very probable.
CD thinks there may be something in the ‘veneration’ theory.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 7 June 1877 |
| Classmark: | Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Eng. d. 3823, fols. 154–5) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10989F |
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- … letters; however, Francis, CD, and Romanes may have discussed it when Romanes visited Down on 30 May 1877 (Emma Darwin’ …
- … letter to the editor of Nature published on 7 June 1877, pp. 100–1. Francis’s letter was dated 21 May and headed ‘ Nectar-secreting glands’. Dalechampia is a genus in the family Euphorbiaceae. The stinging nettle, Urtica dioica , is in the family Urticaciae. On ants and Cecropia peltata , see F. Darwin …
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 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 |
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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 |
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- … letter to G. J. Romanes, 23 May 1877 and n. 3. The council of the Royal Society of London had decided not to publish the full version of Francis Darwin’ …
- … Francis Darwin, [1 June 1876] . Romanes’s lecture, ‘Evolution of nerves and nervous systems’, delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain on 25 May 1877, was published in three parts in Nature , 19 July, 2 and 9 August 1877 ( Romanes 1877 ). See Correspondence vol. 25, letter …
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 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 9 April [1878]
Summary
Sympathises with GJR on dreadful loss [of his sister, Georgina].
Can GJR visit Down?
Onions not yet up.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 9 Apr [1878] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.533) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11466 |
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 |
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- … 1877, after hearing of Thomas Henry Huxley’s favourable opinion, Tyndall wrote to Huxley about further experiments; the letter was published as ‘On heat as a germicide when discontinuously applied’ in ibid. , pp. 569–70. For more on the debate about spontaneous generation and Tyndall’s role in it, see Strick 2000 , pp. 157–82. Francis Darwin …
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 |
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 |
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 |
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