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DCP-LETT-10524

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 June 1876
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 52–4
Summary:

Anticipates reading Haeckel’s Perigenesis der Plastidule [1876].

Physiologists will think vivisection bill stringent.

Honorary memberships of Physiological Society created expressly to honour CD.

Working hard at jellyfish just now. Needs snake poison.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10529

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
4 June [1876]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.494)
Summary:

Joseph Fayrer can supply cobra poison.

Discusses vivisection.

Mentions visit to the John Hawkshaws.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10536

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 June [1876]
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 63–4
Summary:

Delighted to hear of Frank Darwin’s discovery.

Seems hopeless to reason with people about vivisection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10520

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
[15 June 1876 or later]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.495)
Summary:

Describes discovery by his son [Francis Darwin] of protoplasmic filaments extending from small glands in the leaves of Dipsacus [see Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 26 (1877): 4–8].

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