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DCP-LETT-9549

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:
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DCP-LETT-9569

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

DCP-LETT-9747

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:
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DCP-LETT-9751

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:
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DCP-LETT-9762

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:
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DCP-LETT-9772

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:
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DCP-LETT-9783

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:
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DCP-LETT-9814

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:
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DCP-LETT-9916

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."

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DCP-LETT-10065

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 July 1875
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 39
Summary:

Describes experiments designed to produce graft-hybrid. Has achieved adhesion in great majority of experiments. Too early to tell what ultimate success will be.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10081

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 July 1875
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896: 33
Summary:

Looks forward to reading CD’s statements about reflex action in Insectivorous plants.

Has prepared paper ["Physiology of the nervous system of Medusae", Rep. BAAS (1876): 158–63] in which he insists on occurrence of reflex action in absence of nerves. Would like to cite CD’s authority for occurrence of reflex action in plants.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10176

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Sept 1875
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 34–7
Summary:

Sends specimens of grafted potatoes. Describes grafting experiments designed to prove possibility of graft-hybrids, and thus, Pangenesis.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10249

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 4 Nov 1875]
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 42–4
Summary:

Sends successful graft-hybrid of red and white carrot.

CD should correct passage in Variation explaining deformation of sternum in fowls [Variation, 2d ed., 1: 287–8].

Chapter in Variation on Pangenesis is admirable.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10307

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 26 Dec 1875]
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 46
Summary:

Asks to borrow Ernst Haeckel’s Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte der Hydromedusen (1865) [and Zur Entwicklungsgeschichte der Siphonophoren (1869)].

Has not been neglecting Pangenesis for Medusae.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10421F

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 19 Mar 1876]
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 44–5
Summary:

Thanks for copy of 2d ed. of Variation.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10524

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 June 1876
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 52–4
Summary:

Anticipates reading Haeckel’s Perigenesis der Plastidule [1876].

Physiologists will think vivisection bill stringent.

Honorary memberships of Physiological Society created expressly to honour CD.

Working hard at jellyfish just now. Needs snake poison.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10536

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 June [1876]
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 63–4
Summary:

Delighted to hear of Frank Darwin’s discovery.

Seems hopeless to reason with people about vivisection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10554

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 8 Jan 1877]
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 93
Summary:

Returns E. Haeckel’s Perigenesis [der Plastidule (1876)]. EH’s "plastidules" do not differ from Spencer’s "physiological units". Does not see that biology gains anything from EH’s theory.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10584

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 23 Sept 1876]
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 45
Summary:

No results yet with graft-hybrids.

Has been writing a paper.

"Lankester seems to have doubled up [H.] Slade [the medium] in fine style".

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-10986

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 June 1877
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 53; DAR 47: 139–42
Summary:

Sends MS notes on intercrossing.

Describes different reactions of rabbits and guinea-pigs to stinging nettles.

Has made a number of grafts at Kew.

Encloses notes on natural selection; discussion of factors mitigating the swamping influence of intercrossing on incipient variations.

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