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To G. J. Romanes   12 July [1875]

Summary

Discusses revisions for Variation, 2d ed.

Discusses experiments involving graft-hybrids.

Alludes to Pangenesis.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  12 July [1875]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.471)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10059

To G. J. Romanes   18 July 1875

Summary

Comments on GJR’s experiments.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  18 July 1875
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.472)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10076

To G. J. Romanes   24 September [1875]

Summary

Will propose GJR for membership in Linnean Society.

Discusses GJR’s grafting experiments.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  24 Sept [1875]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.476)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10168

To G. J. Romanes   8 October 1875

Summary

CD is circulating certificate proposing GJR for membership in Linnean Society.

Discusses hybrid potatoes from Germany.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  8 Oct 1875
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.477)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10186

To G. J. Romanes   [4 November 1875]

Summary

Mentions his appearance before Vivisection Commission.

Discusses his plans for planting and observing the carrots sent by GJR.

Mentions views of J. S. Burdon Sanderson on graft-hybrids.

Comments on GJR’s paper ["Instinct and acquisition", Nature 12 (1875): 553–4].

[Letter incorrectly dated "Thursday 8th" by CD.] [!? shd be note not synopsis]

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  [4 Nov 1875]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.478)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10239

To G. J. Romanes   4 November 1875

Summary

Carrots have arrived; CD has potted them.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  4 Nov 1875
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.479)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10240

To G. J. Romanes   17 [December 1875]

Summary

Suggests skin-grafting experiment on birds.

Discusses case of Edwin Ray Lankester; it has aroused his indignation.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  17 [Dec 1875]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.481)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10301

To G. J. Romanes   26 December 1875

Summary

Sends books.

Discusses GJR’s Pangenesis experiments; views of Galton on the theory.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  26 Dec 1875
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.482)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10325

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   4 January 1877

Summary

Discusses certificate proposing GJR as Fellow of Royal Society.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  4 Jan 1877
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.504)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10770

To G. J. Romanes   24 June [1881]

Summary

Discusses possible case of inherited memory involving Pompilus. Cites similar example of electric eel.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  24 June [1881]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.530)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10813

To G. J. Romanes   15 April [1878]

Summary

Regrets that GJR was passed over for membership in Royal Society. Discusses criteria applied by Council.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  15 Apr [1878]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.509)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10929

To G. J. Romanes   23 May 1877

Summary

Thanks him for book by Grant Allen [Physiological aesthetics (1877)].

Comments on dispute over spontaneous generation.

The Council [of the Royal Society] will not print Frank Darwin’s paper on Dipsacus [in Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond.].

Mentions GJR’s grafting experiments

and his investigation of spiritualism.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  23 May 1877
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.513)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10971

To G. J. Romanes   27–8 May [1877]

Summary

Discusses Francis Darwin’s paper on teasel [Dipsacus].

Comments on GJR’s investigation of spiritualism.

Comments on book by Grant Allen [Physiological aesthetics (1877)].

Invites him to visit

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  27–8 May [1877]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.514, Mss.B.D25.546)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10973
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