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DCP-LETT-12454

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
3 Feb 1880
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.570)
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].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12461

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
5 Feb 1880
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.571)
Summary:

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

Comments on stimulation of plants.

On pleasure and pain.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12814

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
14 Nov [1880]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.574)
Summary:

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

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12820

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
15 Nov 1880
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.575)
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12926

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
20 Dec 1880
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.576)
Summary:

Comments on papers by Francis Darwin.

Suggests methods for growing seedlings for experiments involving light.

Comments on GJR’s observations on monkey.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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