To G. J. Romanes 14 April 1876
Summary
Mentions receiving GJR’s paper on Medusae [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 12 (1876): 524–31].
Will call on GJR in London.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 14 Apr 1876 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.487) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10449 |
To G. J. Romanes 26 April [1876]
Summary
Trip to London delayed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 26 Apr [1876] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.488) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10475 |
To G. J. Romanes 27 April [1876]
Summary
Will call tomorrow morning.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 27 Apr [1876] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.489) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10479 |
To G. J. Romanes 29 April [1876]
Summary
Congratulates GJR on lecture ["The physiology of the nervous system of Medusa", Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 8 (1875–8): 166–77].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 29 Apr [1876] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.490) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10482 |
To G. J. Romanes 29 May [1876]
Summary
Encloses essay by Haeckel criticising Pangenesis [Die Perigenesis der Plastidule (1876)]. Discusses Haeckel’s theory of inheritance.
Asks about the Physiological Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 29 May [1876] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.493) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10516 |
To G. J. Romanes [15 June 1876 or later]
Summary
Describes discovery by his son [Francis Darwin] of protoplasmic filaments extending from small glands in the leaves of Dipsacus [see Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 26 (1877): 4–8].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | [15 June 1876 or later] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.495) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10520 |
To G. J. Romanes 4 June [1876]
Summary
Joseph Fayrer can supply cobra poison.
Discusses vivisection.
Mentions visit to the John Hawkshaws.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | 4 June [1876] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.494) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10529 |
To G. J. Romanes [before 26 April 1876]
Summary
Asks to show GJR’s letter to George Darwin and other sons. A secret cannot be well kept.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George John Romanes |
| Date: | [before 26 Apr 1876] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.624) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13838 |
