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From Grant Allen to G. J. Romanes   28 January 1880

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Summary

Is recuperating well in France.

Author:  Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  28 Jan 1880
Classmark:  DAR 159: A46
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12440F

To G. J. Romanes   3 February 1880

Summary

Says it is not likely he will be able to criticise GJR’s work.

Recommends Jean-Henri Fabre, Souvenirs entomologiques [1879].

Encloses letters from J. F. Moulton [12350 and 12356].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  3 Feb 1880
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.570)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12454

To G. J. Romanes   5 February 1880

Summary

On GJR’s work on mental evolution in animals. Emphasises "love" among animals.

Comments on stimulation of plants.

On pleasure and pain.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  5 Feb 1880
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.571)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12461

From G. J. Romanes   6 February 1880

Summary

Thinks Herbert Spencer has done little service to science but a great service to thinking.

Thinks importance of mathematics overestimated [by J. F. Moulton] in criticising Spencer.

Author:  George John Romanes
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 Feb 1880
Classmark:  E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 95
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12464

From G. J. Romanes   22 April 1880

Summary

Preparing his book, Animal intelligence [1882].

Spent an afternoon with a spiritualist but did not learn anything.

Author:  George John Romanes
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  22 Apr 1880
Classmark:  E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 96
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12587

From G. J. Romanes   5 November 1880

Summary

Lectured on mental evolution in Newcastle.

Has conducted interesting research on locomotor systems of echinoderms.

Author:  George John Romanes
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  5 Nov 1880
Classmark:  E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 99–100
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12799

From G. J. Romanes   13 November 1880

Summary

Sends proofs of Encyclopaedia Britannica article on hybridism [9th ed., 12: 422–6]. Can CD mention authorities who should be cited?

Author:  George John Romanes
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 Nov 1880
Classmark:  E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 100–1
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12813

To G. J. Romanes   14 November [1880]

Summary

Comments on hybridisation; cites authorities. Sends book by Wilhelm Olbers Focke [Die Pflanzen-Mischlinge (1881)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  14 Nov [1880]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.574)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12814

To G. J. Romanes   15 November 1880

Summary

Comments on GJR’s article on hybridisation.

Recommends his article ["Fertility and hybrids from the Chinese and common goose", Collected papers 2: 219–20].

Discusses crosses of Lythrum.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  15 Nov 1880
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.575)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12820

From G. J. Romanes   18 November 1880

Summary

Thanks for copy of W. O. Focke [Die Pflanzen-Mischlinge (1881)].

Has nearly finished paper on locomotor system in echinoderms.

Author:  George John Romanes
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  18 Nov 1880
Classmark:  E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 98–9
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12827

From G. J. Romanes   10 December 1880

Summary

Returns book [W. O. Focke, Pflanzen-Mischlinge]. It was of great use.

Suggests experiment involving light stimulation of plants.

Author:  George John Romanes
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 Dec 1880
Classmark:  E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 103–4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12904

To G. J. Romanes   13 December 1880

Summary

Discusses GJR’s idea of subjecting plants to brief flashes of light.

Hoped to see GJR in London, but was too tired.

Delighted his book Movement in plants has interested GJR.

Asks if GJR has example of dogs calling on each other to go hunting; there is a case half a mile away.

Has heard that Samuel Butler has abused him in his latest book, but he does not intend to look at it.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  13 Dec 1880
Classmark:  Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Eng. d. 3823, fols. 6–7)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12908F

From G. J. Romanes   14 December 1880

Summary

Glad CD thinks experiment worth trying [see 12904]. Has written to John Tyndall for permission to do it at Royal Institution.

Paper on echinoderms written [with J. C. Ewart, "Locomotor system of Echinodermata", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 172 (1881): 829–85].

Author:  George John Romanes
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  14 Dec 1880
Classmark:  E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 104
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12913

From G. J. Romanes   17 December 1880

Summary

John Tyndall has provided apparatus for experiment with light.

Frank [Darwin]’s paper a brilliant success [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 18: 406–19, 420–55. Read 16 Dec].

Has got a monkey for observation.

Author:  George John Romanes
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 Dec 1880
Classmark:  E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 104–5
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12924

To G. J. Romanes   20 December 1880

Summary

Comments on papers by Francis Darwin.

Suggests methods for growing seedlings for experiments involving light.

Comments on GJR’s observations on monkey.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George John Romanes
Date:  20 Dec 1880
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.576)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12926
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