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From F. J. Cohn 31 December 1877
Summary
Sends details of H. H. R. Koch’s work on bacteria, including first photographs.
J. S. Burdon Sanderson’s and Koch’s collaboration on systemic fever.
Thinks movement of Francis Darwin’s Dipsacus filaments is an artifact.
| Author: | Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 205 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11298 |
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 |
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- … Burdon Sanderson in the context of debates about spontaneous generation, see Strick 2000 , pp. 149–53). Romanes’s observations, ‘Fetichism in animals’, appeared not as a letter but in the ‘News’ section of Nature , 27 December 1877, pp. 168–9. John Morley was the editor of the Fortnightly Review ; CD suggested Romanes’s lecture might be reprinted in that journal (see letter to G. J. …
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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- … Burdon Sanderson’s signature appears on Romanes’s certificate; seventeen people in total signed the form (Royal Society archives, GB 117, EC/1879/18). Romanes’s paper, in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London , was the published version of his Croonian lecture, delivered on 16 December 1875, ‘Preliminary observations on the locomotor system of Medusæ’ ( G. J. …
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Author
| Cohn, F. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Romanes, G. J. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Romanes, G. J. | (2) |
| Cohn, F. J. | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (1) |
