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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.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-75-11-04

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
the Linnean Society of London
Date:
4 November 1875
Source of text:
Linnean Society, London, Certificates of Fellows, Foreign Members and Associates, 1871-76
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-10241

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
4 Nov [1875]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/18)
Summary:

In London yesterday for Vivisection Commission.

Is revising his chapter on Pangenesis [in Variation, 2d ed.] to allow that gemmules probably multiply in the reproductive organs.

Notes examples of inheritance of acquired characteristics cited by Brown-Séquard.

Doubts that double parentage is necessary for complex organisations.

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DCP-LETT-10239

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
[4 Nov 1875]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.478)
Summary:

Mentions his appearance before Vivisection Commission.

Discusses his plans for planting and observing the carrots sent by GJR.

Mentions views of J. S. Burdon Sanderson on graft-hybrids.

Comments on GJR’s paper ["Instinct and acquisition", Nature 12 (1875): 553–4].

[Letter incorrectly dated "Thursday 8th" by CD.] [!? shd be note not synopsis]

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DCP-LETT-10240

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
4 Nov 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.479)
Summary:

Carrots have arrived; CD has potted them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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