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DCP-LETT-11265

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
1 and 2 Dec 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.526)
Summary:

Comments on GJR’s lecture on evolution.

Regrets failure of graft experiments.

Hopes GJR will not give up on Pangenesis. Mentions article by Gustav Jäger on Pangenesis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11275

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Henry Sieveking
Date:
11 Dec 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.528)
Summary:

Would like the letters from grandfather [Erasmus Darwin] to J. A. H. Reimarus to be published.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11290

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reuben Almond Blair
Date:
27 Dec 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.529)
Summary:

Asks for the wing of a goose said to have transmitted effects of an injury by hereditary descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11291

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Cecil (Bill) Marshall
Date:
27 Dec 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Cannot allow WCM to pay extra charge for glass. Rooms all very comfortable.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11328

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
[20 Jan 1878?]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.484)
Summary:

CD will call on Tuesday morning.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11405

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
7 Mar 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.531)
Summary:

CD’s gardener says not to sow onion seeds until middle of March. Should he risk sowing them at once?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11451

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Otto Carl Alfred (Alfred) Moschkau
Date:
28 Mar 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.532)
Summary:

Does not believe that nature of milk can affect character of child.

Facts about starling very curious, but CD now absorbed by vegetable physiology. Not likely to attend to animal minds again.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-11466

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
9 Apr [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.533)
Summary:

Sympathises with GJR on dreadful loss [of his sister, Georgina].

Can GJR visit Down?

Onions not yet up.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11473

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Edward Dobson
Date:
12 Apr 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Monstrosity of fuchsia sent by GD not uncommon.

Does not recall bats at Galapagos.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11475

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reuben Almond Blair
Date:
14 Apr 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.535)
Summary:

Encloses report by W. H. Flower on goose’s wing.

Asks RAB to obtain wings from young birds and broken wing from old one. Asks about details of injury.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11502

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
11 [May 1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.474)
Summary:

Invites GJR to visit on the 18th.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11549

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Cecil (Bill) Marshall
Date:
9 June [1875-81]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Asks questions about earthworms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11555

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
16 June [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.537)
Summary:

Sends two pages from MS chapter on instinct. Presumes it is too late for chapter to be of use to GJR.

After train ride Baby [Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin] calls every vehicle "boo boo".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11560

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
19 June [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.538)
Summary:

GJR may have CD’s MS chapter on instinct. It was abstracted for Origin, but CD probably will not prepare it for publication.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11589

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reuben Almond Blair
Date:
4 [Aug] 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.540)
Summary:

Thanks RAB for kindness. Says W. H. Flower will examine wings [of geese].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11610

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Griffin Stokes
Date:
16 July [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.541)
Summary:

Discusses "highly expressive" speech of young children.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11640

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Flower
Date:
4 [Aug] 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.543)
Summary:

Encloses letters from Blair on inheritance of injured wing in geese. Says specimens have been sent.

Mentions case of pigeon born without eyes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11644

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Léo Abram Errera
Date:
8 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.544)
Summary:

Regrets that LAE went to Down for nothing.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11671

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
20 Aug 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.546)
Summary:

Comments on GJR’s lecture on animal intelligence [Rep. BAAS].

Comments on J. R. L. Delboeuf, La psychologie [1876].

Suggests that GJR keep a young monkey to observe.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11684

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
2 Sept [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.547)
Summary:

Discusses animal intelligence.

Advises GJR on acquiring monkey.

Sends book by Delboeuf [La psychologie (1876)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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