From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Aug 1877
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, p. 57
Summary:
Believes in differentiated nerve-tracts [in Medusa] because of experiment in which contractile waves blocked. [See GJR’s "Evolution of nerves", Nature 16 (1877): 231–3, 269–71, 289–93.] Did not know author of MS was Miss Lawless. Describes experiment on contractile waves in Aurelia. Also studying starfish.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project