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DCP-LETT-10983

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
5 June 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.515)
Summary:

Sends quotation from Lamarck’s Philosophie zoologique [(1809), 2: 318] on effects of habit.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10989F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
7 June 1877
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Eng. d. 3823, fols. 154–5)
Summary:

CD is going away and has asked FD to thank GJR for his amusing letter [of 6 June], which CD thinks should be published in Nature. CD thinks the guinea pig theory very probable.

CD thinks there may be something in the ‘veneration’ theory.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10996

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
11 June [1877]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.516)
Summary:

Discusses effects of natural selection. Discusses absence of blending between geographical races as a problem. Discusses effect of natural selection on productivity of an organism.

Comments on GJR’s review of Grant Allen’s book [Physiological aesthetics (1877)].

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