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DCP-LETT-12454

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

DCP-LETT-12461

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12579

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Tearle
Date:
16 Apr 1880
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.572)
Summary:

Comments on concept of revelation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12596

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Jane Fox; Frances Jane Hughes
Date:
5 May 1880
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.573)
Summary:

Still remembers FJH. Thinks no scientific journal would publish her essay on Genesis and science.

Regrets death of her brother [W. D. Fox].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12676

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
3 Aug 1880
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD sends thanks for further instructions for making a solution, which will be followed as soon as Francis [Darwin] returns.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12814

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12820

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12920

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
17 Dec [1880]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss B.D25)
Summary:

Worm-castings from [Roman] ruins at Brading contained bits of tiles or bricks. Obliged for WED’s trouble about Brading castings.

Movement in plants well received in Germany.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12926

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

DCP-LETT-12937

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Maurice Herbert
Date:
25 Dec [1880]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.577)
Summary:

Recalls student days at Cambridge and microscope JMH gave him.

Discusses his children, health, and work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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