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DCP-LETT-11773

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
5 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.553)
Summary:

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

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11784

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
11 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.555)
Summary:

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

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11806

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
27 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.556)
Summary:

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

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11833

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
[18 Jan 1879]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.558)
Summary:

Notes advertisement of Tito Vignoli, Fundamentalgesetz der Intelligenz im Thierreiche [1879].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12168

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
23 July 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.566)
Summary:

Contributes to subscription for Grant Allen.

Regrets GJR and wife could not visit.

Encloses paper [not identified] by Thomas Meehan, a very inaccurate observer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12229

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
14 Sept [1879]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.567)
Summary:

Thanks GJR for gift of game.

Contributes to [Naples] Zoological Station.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13838

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
[before 26 Apr 1876]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.624)
Summary:

Asks to show GJR’s letter to George Darwin and other sons. A secret cannot be well kept.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9549

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
16 July 1874
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.444)
Summary:

Thanks GJR for his letter, regrets pressure of other work prevents his giving GJR’s remarks the attention they deserve. GJR makes clearer how an organ that has started to decrease will go on decreasing.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9569

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
28 July [1874]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.446)
Summary:

Comments on Spencer’s terms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9747

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
[7 Dec 1874]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.453)
Summary:

Speaks of visiting GJR at the Brown Institution.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9751

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
[9 Dec 1874]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.454)
Summary:

Invites GJR to visit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9762

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
16 Dec 1874
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.455)
Summary:

Thanks GJR for copy of his book [Christian prayer and general laws (1874)].

Discusses breeding and sterility.

Discusses experiments to test Pangenesis. Cites useful references.

Suggests GJR visit Kew gardens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9772

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
23 Dec 1874
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.456)
Summary:

Urges GJR to visit Hooker at Kew.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9783

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
27 Dec 1874
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.457)
Summary:

Discourages grafting ears of rabbits. Suggests comb of fowl.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9814

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
13 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.461)
Summary:

Describes accounts of potato grafting in a German journal.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9916

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
7 Apr [1875]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.465)
Summary:

Is sending plants from cut-leaved vine.

Invites GJR to visit.

"When in presence of my ladies do not talk about experiments on animals."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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