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DCP-LETT-13123

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Apr 1881
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 112
Summary:

Looks forward to reading CD’s Earthworms.

Agrees that habits of sand-wasp are determined by natural selection.

Experiment of exposing plants to flashing light gives uncertain result.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13134

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr [1881]
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 116
Summary:

Only more sensitive seedlings respond to flashing light.

CD’s letter to Times ["On vivisection", 22 Apr 1881] in every way admirable.

GJR to be Zoological Secretary of Linnean Society.

Has decided on arrangement of material for his books Animal intelligence [1882]

and Mental evolution in animals [1883].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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