From G. J. Romanes 14 July 1875
Summary
Describes experiments designed to produce graft-hybrid. Has achieved adhesion in great majority of experiments. Too early to tell what ultimate success will be.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 July 1875 |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 39 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10065 |
From G. J. Romanes 20 July 1875
Summary
Looks forward to reading CD’s statements about reflex action in Insectivorous plants.
Has prepared paper ["Physiology of the nervous system of Medusae", Rep. BAAS (1876): 158–63] in which he insists on occurrence of reflex action in absence of nerves. Would like to cite CD’s authority for occurrence of reflex action in plants.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 July 1875 |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896: 33 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10081 |
From G. J. Romanes 29 September 1875
Summary
Sends specimens of grafted potatoes. Describes grafting experiments designed to prove possibility of graft-hybrids, and thus, Pangenesis.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Sept 1875 |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 34–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10176 |
From G. J. Romanes [before 4 November 1875]
Summary
Sends successful graft-hybrid of red and white carrot.
CD should correct passage in Variation explaining deformation of sternum in fowls [Variation, 2d ed., 1: 287–8].
Chapter in Variation on Pangenesis is admirable.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 4 Nov 1875] |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 42–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10249 |
From G. J. Romanes [before 26 December 1875]
Summary
Asks to borrow Ernst Haeckel’s Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte der Hydromedusen (1865) [and Zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Siphonophoren (1869)].
Has not been neglecting Pangenesis for Medusae.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [before 26 Dec 1875] |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 46 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10307 |
From G. J. Romanes [c. 19 March 1876]
Summary
Thanks for copy of 2d ed. of Variation.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 19 Mar 1876] |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 44–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10421F |
From G. J. Romanes 1 June 1876
Summary
Anticipates reading Haeckel’s Perigenesis der Plastidule [1876].
Physiologists will think vivisection bill stringent.
Honorary memberships of Physiological Society created expressly to honour CD.
Working hard at jellyfish just now. Needs snake poison.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 June 1876 |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 52–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10524 |
From G. J. Romanes 11 June [1876]
Summary
Delighted to hear of Frank Darwin’s discovery.
Seems hopeless to reason with people about vivisection.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 June [1876] |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 63–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10536 |
From G. J. Romanes [after 8 January 1877]
Summary
Returns E. Haeckel’s Perigenesis [der Plastidule (1876)]. EH’s "plastidules" do not differ from Spencer’s "physiological units". Does not see that biology gains anything from EH’s theory.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 8 Jan 1877] |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 93 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10554 |
From G. J. Romanes [after 23 September 1876]
Summary
No results yet with graft-hybrids.
Has been writing a paper.
"Lankester seems to have doubled up [H.] Slade [the medium] in fine style".
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 23 Sept 1876] |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 45 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10584 |
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 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 13 August 1877
Summary
Thanks for CD’s comments on ["Evolution of nerves"]. Admits that he may have "been too keen in my scent after nerves".
Notes effect of reversing direction of current in muscular tissue.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Aug 1877 |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 63 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11105 |
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 |
From G. J. Romanes 10 April 1878
Summary
Thanks for letter of sympathy.
Would like to visit in May.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Apr 1878 |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 70 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11469 |
From G. J. Romanes 18 June 1878
Summary
Thanks for permission to use CD’s observations on instinct. Would like to use CD’s MS chapter in preparing forthcoming book [Mental evolution in animals (1883)].
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 June 1878 |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 71 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11557 |
From G. J. Romanes 21 June 1878
Summary
Thanks for permission to use CD’s MS chapter on instinct for forthcoming book.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 June 1878 |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 73 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11561 |
From G. J. Romanes 17 August 1878
Summary
GJR’s speech at Dublin [BAAS meeting] was an enormous success, with tremendous applause at mention of CD’s name at the finale.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Aug 1878 |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 73 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11667 |