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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   [20 January 1878?]

Summary

CD will call on Tuesday morning.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  [20 Jan 1878?]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.484)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11328

To G. J. Romanes   7 March 1878

Summary

CD’s gardener says not to sow onion seeds until middle of March. Should he risk sowing them at once?

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  7 Mar 1878
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.531)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11405

To G. J. Romanes   9 April [1878]

Summary

Sympathises with GJR on dreadful loss [of his sister, Georgina].

Can GJR visit Down?

Onions not yet up.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  9 Apr [1878]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.533)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11466

To G. J. Romanes   14 September [1878]

Summary

Thinks most of the experimental onions have died. Suspects the red and white were distinct species. If GJR is not "sick of the whole job" he might try with radishes or carrots.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  14 Sept [1878]
Classmark:  University of Exeter Library Special Collections (EUL MS 31a/404)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11491

To G. J. Romanes   11 [May 1878]

Summary

Invites GJR to visit on the 18th.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  11 [May 1878]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.474)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11502

To G. J. Romanes   13 May [1878]

Summary

Blood-red onions enclosed.

GJR to come whenever convenient.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  13 May [1878]
Classmark:  Christ Church Library, Oxford (MS 516)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11506

To G. J. Romanes   16 June [1878]

Summary

Sends two pages from MS chapter on instinct. Presumes it is too late for chapter to be of use to GJR.

After train ride Baby [Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin] calls every vehicle "boo boo".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  16 June [1878]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.537)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11555

To G. J. Romanes   19 June [1878]

Summary

GJR may have CD’s MS chapter on instinct. It was abstracted for Origin, but CD probably will not prepare it for publication.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  19 June [1878]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.538)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11560

To G. J. Romanes   20 August 1878

Summary

Comments on GJR’s lecture on animal intelligence [Rep. BAAS].

Comments on J. R. L. Delboeuf, La psychologie [1876].

Suggests that GJR keep a young monkey to observe.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  20 Aug 1878
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.546)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11671

To G. J. Romanes   2 September [1878]

Summary

Discusses animal intelligence.

Advises GJR on acquiring monkey.

Sends book by Delboeuf [La psychologie (1876)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  2 Sept [1878]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.547)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11684

To G. J. Romanes   21 September [1878]

Summary

Discusses spiritualism. Says Williams, the medium, is exposed as fraud.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  21 Sept [1878]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.548)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11699

To G. J. Romanes   1 October [1878]

Summary

Comments on GJR’s article in Fortnightly Review ["The beginning of nerves", n.s. 24 (1878): 509–26].

Comments on "poor old" Edinburgh Review.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  1 Oct [1878]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.550)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11712

To G. J. Romanes   20 [November 1878]

Summary

CD will visit tomorrow.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  20 [Nov 1878]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.552)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11750

To G. J. Romanes   5 December [1878]

Summary

Comments on GJR’s anonymous book [A candid examination of theism (1878)]. Notes possible theological objections.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  5 Dec [1878]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.553)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11773

To G. J. Romanes   11 December [1878]

Summary

Sends copy of H. D. Lindemuth, "Vegetative Bastarderzeugung" [Landwirtsch. Jahrb. 7 (1878): 887–939].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  11 Dec [1878]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.555)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11784

To G. J. Romanes   27 December [1878]

Summary

Recommends article on "Brute and human intellect" by William James [J. Speculative Philos. 12 (1878): 236–78].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  27 Dec [1878]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.556)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11806
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