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From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 July 1874
Source of text:
DAR 52: D1–2, 10–14
Summary:

Sets out some of his ideas on the effects of disuse on an organ. Disuse as a cause of reduction.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
16 July 1874
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.444)
Summary:

Thanks GJR for his letter, regrets pressure of other work prevents his giving GJR’s remarks the attention they deserve. GJR makes clearer how an organ that has started to decrease will go on decreasing.

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From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 July 1874
Source of text:
DAR 52: D3–7
Summary:

Encloses a copy of a letter from H. Spencer giving his opinion on GJR’s views on disuse and a draft of GJR’s reply to Spencer.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
28 July [1874]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.446)
Summary:

Comments on Spencer’s terms.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
[7 Dec 1874]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.453)
Summary:

Speaks of visiting GJR at the Brown Institution.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
[9 Dec 1874]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.454)
Summary:

Invites GJR to visit.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
16 Dec 1874
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.455)
Summary:

Thanks GJR for copy of his book [Christian prayer and general laws (1874)].

Discusses breeding and sterility.

Discusses experiments to test Pangenesis. Cites useful references.

Suggests GJR visit Kew gardens.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
23 Dec 1874
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.456)
Summary:

Urges GJR to visit Hooker at Kew.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
27 Dec 1874
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.457)
Summary:

Discourages grafting ears of rabbits. Suggests comb of fowl.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
13 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.461)
Summary:

Describes accounts of potato grafting in a German journal.

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From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Jan 1875
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 19–20
Summary:

Would like to see papers [on potato grafting] mentioned by CD.

CD has doubtless seen case in Gardeners’ Chronicle of vine in which scion has affected the stock [P. Grieve, "Singular sport upon a grape vine", Gard. Chron. (1875): 21].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
7 Apr [1875]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.465)
Summary:

Is sending plants from cut-leaved vine.

Invites GJR to visit.

"When in presence of my ladies do not talk about experiments on animals."

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From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Apr 1875
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 20–2
Summary:

Returns papers [unidentified].

One on inheritance destitute of meaning. How can "force" act without any material on which to act? Discussion must assume truth of some such theory as Pangenesis.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
12 July [1875]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.471)
Summary:

Discusses revisions for Variation, 2d ed.

Discusses experiments involving graft-hybrids.

Alludes to Pangenesis.

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From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 July 1875
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 39
Summary:

Describes experiments designed to produce graft-hybrid. Has achieved adhesion in great majority of experiments. Too early to tell what ultimate success will be.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
18 July 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.472)
Summary:

Comments on GJR’s experiments.

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From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 July 1875
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896: 33
Summary:

Looks forward to reading CD’s statements about reflex action in Insectivorous plants.

Has prepared paper ["Physiology of the nervous system of Medusae", Rep. BAAS (1876): 158–63] in which he insists on occurrence of reflex action in absence of nerves. Would like to cite CD’s authority for occurrence of reflex action in plants.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
24 Sept [1875]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.476)
Summary:

Will propose GJR for membership in Linnean Society.

Discusses GJR’s grafting experiments.

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From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Sept 1875
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 34–7
Summary:

Sends specimens of grafted potatoes. Describes grafting experiments designed to prove possibility of graft-hybrids, and thus, Pangenesis.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
8 Oct 1875
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.477)
Summary:

CD is circulating certificate proposing GJR for membership in Linnean Society.

Discusses hybrid potatoes from Germany.

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