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 |
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 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 |
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