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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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