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DCP-LETT-12904

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Dec 1880
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 103–4
Summary:

Returns book [W. O. Focke, Pflanzen-Mischlinge]. It was of great use.

Suggests experiment involving light stimulation of plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12913

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Dec 1880
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 104
Summary:

Glad CD thinks experiment worth trying [see 12904]. Has written to John Tyndall for permission to do it at Royal Institution.

Paper on echinoderms written [with J. C. Ewart, "Locomotor system of Echinodermata", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 172 (1881): 829–85].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12924

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Dec 1880
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 104–5
Summary:

John Tyndall has provided apparatus for experiment with light.

Frank [Darwin]’s paper a brilliant success [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 18: 406–19, 420–55. Read 16 Dec].

Has got a monkey for observation.

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