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:
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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