From G. J. Romanes [6 or 13 or 20] March 1881
Summary
Intends experiment to see if cats released in country can find their way back.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [6, 13 or 20] Mar 1881 |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 107 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13069 |
From G. J. Romanes 7 March 1881
Summary
Responds to MS of Earthworms. An objective but arbitrary test of intelligence in animals is the ability to learn from experience. Earthworms fall on the border of intelligence. They could justly be called intelligent if they could learn by experience to manipulate some unknown, exotic leaf. CD should make clear that intelligence does not imply self-consciousness.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Mar 1881 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 216 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13077 |
From G. J. Romanes 24 March 1881
Summary
Suggests transplanting plant ovaries to test Pangenesis.
None of the cats released in experiment found its way back.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Mar 1881 |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 107–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13097 |
From G. J. Romanes 17 April 1881
Summary
Looks forward to reading CD’s Earthworms.
Agrees that habits of sand-wasp are determined by natural selection.
Experiment of exposing plants to flashing light gives uncertain result.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Apr 1881 |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 112 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13123 |
From G. J. Romanes 22 April [1881]
Summary
Only more sensitive seedlings respond to flashing light.
CD’s letter to Times ["On vivisection", 22 Apr 1881] in every way admirable.
GJR to be Zoological Secretary of Linnean Society.
Has decided on arrangement of material for his books Animal intelligence [1882]
and Mental evolution in animals [1883].
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Apr [1881] |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 116 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13134 |
From G. J. Romanes 25 May [1881]
Summary
Suggests CD delay arrangements for his Linnean Society portrait. GJR thinks John Collier would be willing to paint it.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 May [1881] |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 118 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13173 |
From G. J. Romanes 1 July [1881]
Summary
Has told John Collier to write to CD to arrange for portrait.
Will read [W. Graham’s] Creed of science.
Has got into row with W. B. Carpenter over thought-reading.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 July [1881] |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 119 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13229 |
From G. J. Romanes 8 August 1881
Summary
Delighted that portrait of CD has "pleased those who are the best judges".
Arranging for vote on vivisection by International Medical Congress.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Aug 1881 |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 120–1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13282 |
From G. J. Romanes 31 August 1881
Summary
Asks CD to contribute to symposium on vivisection to be published in Nineteenth Century [10: 920–48].
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Aug 1881 |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 121–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13307 |
From G. J. Romanes 4 September [1881]
Summary
Not intended to call vivisection article a symposium [Nineteenth Century 10 (1881): 920–48].
Sympathy on death of Erasmus Darwin.
Trying some experiments with bees to test their direction-finding methods.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Sept [1881] |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 125 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13317 |
From G. J. Romanes 16 October 1881
Summary
Thinks CD guilty of mock modesty regarding GJR’s review of Earthworms.
Has been working on echinoderms again with J. C. Ewart.
Author: | George John Romanes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Oct 1881 |
Classmark: | E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 127–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13405 |