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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
23 [Jan 1882]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.613)
Summary:

Discusses present of microscope to Grant Allen.

Mentions sugar-cane paper [by Baron de Villa Franca].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
25 [Jan 1882]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.569)
Summary:

Agrees about Grant Allen affair.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
28 Jan 1882
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.614)
Summary:

Agrees to write a page or two on behalf of Donald MacAlister.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
29 Mar [1882]
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Eng. d. 3823, fol. 11)
Summary:

Sends manuscript by Baron de Villa Franca on the apparent grafting of sugar canes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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