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DCP-LETT-10421F

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 19 Mar 1876]
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 44–5
Summary:

Thanks for copy of 2d ed. of Variation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10449

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
14 Apr 1876
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.487)
Summary:

Mentions receiving GJR’s paper on Medusae [J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 12 (1876): 524–31].

Will call on GJR in London.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13838

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
[before 26 Apr 1876]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.624)
Summary:

Asks to show GJR’s letter to George Darwin and other sons. A secret cannot be well kept.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10475

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
26 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.488)
Summary:

Trip to London delayed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10479

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
27 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.489)
Summary:

Will call tomorrow morning.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10482

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
29 Apr [1876]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.490)
Summary:

Congratulates GJR on lecture ["The physiology of the nervous system of Medusa", Not. Proc. R. Inst. G. B. 8 (1875–8): 166–77].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10516

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
29 May [1876]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.493)
Summary:

Encloses essay by Haeckel criticising Pangenesis [Die Perigenesis der Plastidule (1876)]. Discusses Haeckel’s theory of inheritance.

Asks about the Physiological Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10584

From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 23 Sept 1876]
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 45
Summary:

No results yet with graft-hybrids.

Has been writing a paper.

"Lankester seems to have doubled up [H.] Slade [the medium] in fine style".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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