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DCP-LETT-11096

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
9 Aug [1877]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.518)
Summary:

Comments on GJR’s papers in Nature [see 11103].

Mentions manuscript by Miss Lawless on fertilisation in plants.

Discusses work of Francis Darwin on Dipsacus

and his own experiments on Drosera.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11099

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
10 Aug [1877]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.519)
Summary:

Comments on GJR’s paper in Nature.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11103

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Aug 1877
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 57
Summary:

Believes in differentiated nerve-tracts [in Medusa] because of experiment in which contractile waves blocked. [See GJR’s "Evolution of nerves", Nature 16 (1877): 231–3, 269–71, 289–93.] Did not know author of MS was Miss Lawless. Describes experiment on contractile waves in Aurelia. Also studying starfish.

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DCP-LETT-11105

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Aug 1877
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 63
Summary:

Thanks for CD’s comments on ["Evolution of nerves"]. Admits that he may have "been too keen in my scent after nerves".

Notes effect of reversing direction of current in muscular tissue.

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