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DCP-LETT-13118

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
16 Apr 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.587)
Summary:

Discusses concept of intelligence in his Earthworms manuscript.

Remarks on GJR’s work on echinoderms.

Comments on Wilhelm Roux [Der Kampf der Theile im Organismus (1881)].

Discusses animal instincts, citing Fabre’s description of sand-wasps.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13124

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
18 Apr 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.588)
Summary:

Discusses GJR’s experiments on heliotropism in plants; views of Philippe van Tieghem and Julius von Wiesner. Describes his own experiments.

Mentions his letter on vivisection [to Frithiof Holmgren, see 13115] in the Times [18 Apr 1881].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13138

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
25 Apr 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.589)
Summary:

Comments on GJR’s letter in the Times [25 Apr 1881] concerning vivisection. Mentions activity of anti-vivisectionists, G. R. Jesse and F. P. Cobbe.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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