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
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Comments on Spencer’s terms.
Speaks of visiting GJR at the Brown Institution.
Invites GJR to visit.
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.
Urges GJR to visit Hooker at Kew.
Discourages grafting ears of rabbits. Suggests comb of fowl.
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.