To G. J. Romanes 3 February 1880
Summary
Says it is not likely he will be able to criticise GJR’s work.
Recommends Jean-Henri Fabre, Souvenirs entomologiques [1879].
Encloses letters from J. F. Moulton [12350 and 12356].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 3 Feb 1880 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.570) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12454 |
To G. J. Romanes 5 February 1880
Summary
On GJR’s work on mental evolution in animals. Emphasises "love" among animals.
Comments on stimulation of plants.
On pleasure and pain.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 5 Feb 1880 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.571) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12461 |
To G. J. Romanes 14 November [1880]
Summary
Comments on hybridisation; cites authorities. Sends book by Wilhelm Olbers Focke [Die Pflanzen-Mischlinge (1881)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 14 Nov [1880] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.574) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12814 |
To G. J. Romanes 15 November 1880
Summary
Comments on GJR’s article on hybridisation.
Recommends his article ["Fertility and hybrids from the Chinese and common goose", Collected papers 2: 219–20].
Discusses crosses of Lythrum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 15 Nov 1880 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.575) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12820 |
To G. J. Romanes 13 December 1880
Summary
Discusses GJR’s idea of subjecting plants to brief flashes of light.
Hoped to see GJR in London, but was too tired.
Delighted his book Movement in plants has interested GJR.
Asks if GJR has example of dogs calling on each other to go hunting; there is a case half a mile away.
Has heard that Samuel Butler has abused him in his latest book, but he does not intend to look at it.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 13 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Eng. d. 3823, fols. 6–7) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12908F |
To G. J. Romanes 20 December 1880
Summary
Comments on papers by Francis Darwin.
Suggests methods for growing seedlings for experiments involving light.
Comments on GJR’s observations on monkey.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 20 Dec 1880 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.576) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12926 |
