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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
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