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:
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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:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
15 Nov 1880
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.575)
Summary:
Comments on GJR’s article on hybridisation.
Recommends his article ["Fertility and hybrids from the Chinese and common goose", Collected papers 2: 219–20].
Discusses crosses of Lythrum.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
13 Dec 1880
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Eng. d. 3823, fols. 6–7)
Summary:
Discusses GJR’s idea of subjecting plants to brief flashes of light.
Hoped to see GJR in London, but was too tired.
Delighted his book Movement in plants has interested GJR.
Asks if GJR has example of dogs calling on each other to go hunting; there is a case half a mile away.
Has heard that Samuel Butler has abused him in his latest book, but he does not intend to look at it.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
20 Dec 1880
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.576)
Summary:
Comments on papers by Francis Darwin.
Suggests methods for growing seedlings for experiments involving light.
Comments on GJR’s observations on monkey.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
24 Jan 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.580)
Summary:
Describes difficulty of obtaining pigs for experiment.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
28 Jan 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.581)
Summary:
Has read with interest GJR’s review [of Samuel Butler, Unconscious memory (1880)] in Nature [23 (1880–1): 285–7]. Heroic of GJR to call down [Butler’s] revenge on his own head. Ernst Krause’s letter [Nature 23 (1880–1): 288] very good.
As magistrate, CD must enforce rules regarding infection in pigs.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
11 Feb 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.582)
Summary:
Thanks GJR for his second letter replying to Butler [Nature 23 (1880–1): 335–6].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
7 Mar [1881]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.584)
Summary:
Comments on the meaning of his definition of the term, "animal intelligence". Encloses further discussion from his forthcoming book [Earthworms].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
9 Mar [1881]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.585)
Summary:
Comments on GJR’s view of animal consciousness. Mentions experiment on learning among worms.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
26 Mar 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.586)
Summary:
Discusses difficulties involved in plant experiment designed to test Pangenesis.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
16 Apr 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.587)
Summary:
Discusses concept of intelligence in his Earthworms manuscript.
Remarks on GJR’s work on echinoderms.
Comments on Wilhelm Roux [Der Kampf der Theile im Organismus (1881)].
Discusses animal instincts, citing Fabre’s description of sand-wasps.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
18 Apr 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.588)
Summary:
Discusses GJR’s experiments on heliotropism in plants; views of Philippe van Tieghem and Julius von Wiesner. Describes his own experiments.
Mentions his letter on vivisection [to Frithiof Holmgren, see 13115] in the Times [18 Apr 1881].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
25 Apr 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.589)
Summary:
Comments on GJR’s letter in the Times [25 Apr 1881] concerning vivisection. Mentions activity of anti-vivisectionists, G. R. Jesse and F. P. Cobbe.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
27 May 1881
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LL/4)
Summary:
Agrees to sit for portrait. Thinks John Collier is a good artist, an opinion based on his portrait of Hooker.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
24 June [1881]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.530)
Summary:
Discusses possible case of inherited memory involving Pompilus. Cites similar example of electric eel.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
27 June [1881]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
CD is glad the portrait [of CD by John Collier] has been arranged; suggests dates, but feels he should have no say in the subscriptions or remuneration.
Thinks the Lakes are beautiful.
Is reading W. Graham’s The creed of science.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
4 July [1881]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.594)
Summary:
Is returning to Down.
Rejoices that GJR writes so much in Nature.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project