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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
13 May [1878]
Source of text:
Christ Church Library, Oxford (MS 516)
Summary:
Blood-red onions enclosed.
GJR to come whenever convenient.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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
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
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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
14 Sept [1878]
Source of text:
University of Exeter Library Special Collections (EUL MS 31a/404)
Summary:
Thinks most of the experimental onions have died. Suspects the red and white were distinct species. If GJR is not "sick of the whole job" he might try with radishes or carrots.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
21 Sept [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.548)
Summary:
Discusses spiritualism. Says Williams, the medium, is exposed as fraud.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
1 Oct [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.550)
Summary:
Comments on GJR’s article in Fortnightly Review ["The beginning of nerves", n.s. 24 (1878): 509–26].
Comments on "poor old" Edinburgh Review.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
20 [Nov 1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.552)
Summary:
CD will visit tomorrow.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
5 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.553)
Summary:
Comments on GJR’s anonymous book [A candid examination of theism (1878)]. Notes possible theological objections.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
11 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.555)
Summary:
Sends copy of H. D. Lindemuth, "Vegetative Bastarderzeugung" [Landwirtsch. Jahrb. 7 (1878): 887–939].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
27 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.556)
Summary:
Recommends article on "Brute and human intellect" by William James [J. Speculative Philos. 12 (1878): 236–78].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
[18 Jan 1879]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.558)
Summary:
Notes advertisement of Tito Vignoli, Fundamentalgesetz der Intelligenz im Thierreiche [1879].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
23 July 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.566)
Summary:
Contributes to subscription for Grant Allen.
Regrets GJR and wife could not visit.
Encloses paper [not identified] by Thomas Meehan, a very inaccurate observer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
14 Sept [1879]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.567)
Summary:
Thanks GJR for gift of game.
Contributes to [Naples] Zoological Station.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
28 Jan 1880
Source of text:
DAR 159: A46
Summary:
Is recuperating well in France.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
3 Feb 1880
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.570)
Summary:
Says it is not likely he will be able to criticise GJR’s work.
Recommends Jean-Henri Fabre, Souvenirs entomologiques [1879].
Encloses letters from J. F. Moulton [12350 and 12356].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
5 Feb 1880
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.571)
Summary:
On GJR’s work on mental evolution in animals. Emphasises "love" among animals.
Comments on stimulation of plants.
On pleasure and pain.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
14 Nov [1880]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.574)
Summary:
Comments on hybridisation; cites authorities. Sends book by Wilhelm Olbers Focke [Die Pflanzen-Mischlinge (1881)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project