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 |
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 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 |
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 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Romanes, G. J. | (4) |
