From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
[20 Jan 1878?]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.484)
Summary:
CD will call on Tuesday morning.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
7 Mar 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.531)
Summary:
CD’s gardener says not to sow onion seeds until middle of March. Should he risk sowing them at once?
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Otto Carl Alfred (Alfred) Moschkau
Date:
28 Mar 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.532)
Summary:
Does not believe that nature of milk can affect character of child.
Facts about starling very curious, but CD now absorbed by vegetable physiology. Not likely to attend to animal minds again.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
9 Apr [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.533)
Summary:
Sympathises with GJR on dreadful loss [of his sister, Georgina].
Can GJR visit Down?
Onions not yet up.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Edward Dobson
Date:
12 Apr 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Monstrosity of fuchsia sent by GD not uncommon.
Does not recall bats at Galapagos.
Contributor:
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From:
William Henry Flower
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Apr 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.534)
Summary:
Bones in goose’s wing perfectly normal. Malformation probably due to want of balance in muscles; analogous to club-foot. Injury of the parent not reproduced in offspring, but may have led to disturbance in functions of nerves which control muscles. Would like further study.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reuben Almond Blair
Date:
14 Apr 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.535)
Summary:
Encloses report by W. H. Flower on goose’s wing.
Asks RAB to obtain wings from young birds and broken wing from old one. Asks about details of injury.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
15 Apr [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.509)
Summary:
Regrets that GJR was passed over for membership in Royal Society. Discusses criteria applied by Council.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
11 [May 1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.474)
Summary:
Invites GJR to visit on the 18th.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
16 June [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.537)
Summary:
Sends two pages from MS chapter on instinct. Presumes it is too late for chapter to be of use to GJR.
After train ride Baby [Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin] calls every vehicle "boo boo".
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
19 June [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.538)
Summary:
GJR may have CD’s MS chapter on instinct. It was abstracted for Origin, but CD probably will not prepare it for publication.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maurice Hawley Truelove
Date:
1 July 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.539)
Summary:
Regrets he cannot sign a memorial for correspondent’s father [Edward Truelove], which states an opinion on a life that is totally unknown to him. Feels that Edward Truelove’s sentence was very harsh [ET was imprisoned and fined for selling "obscene" publications advocating artificial control of conception] even though CD is strongly opposed to all the views expressed.
Comments on R. D. Owen’s Moral physiology [1831].
Contributor:
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From:
Reuben Almond Blair
To:
Smithsonian Institution
Date:
10 July 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (B/D25.20)
Summary:
Requests that a box of specimen goose wings for CD be forwarded by the Institution to [W. H.] Flower at the Royal College of Surgeons. The wings bear on the transmission of the effects of injury.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Griffin Stokes
Date:
16 July [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.541)
Summary:
Discusses "highly expressive" speech of young children.
Contributor:
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From:
Reuben Almond Blair
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 July 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.542)
Summary:
Explains difficulties in supplying wings of geese. Describes injury of old gander that sired the abnormal geese.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Reuben Almond Blair
Date:
4 [Aug] 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.540)
Summary:
Thanks RAB for kindness. Says W. H. Flower will examine wings [of geese].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Flower
Date:
4 [Aug] 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.543)
Summary:
Encloses letters from Blair on inheritance of injured wing in geese. Says specimens have been sent.
Mentions case of pigeon born without eyes.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Léo Abram Errera
Date:
8 Aug [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.544)
Summary:
Regrets that LAE went to Down for nothing.
Contributor:
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From:
Léo Abram Errera
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Aug 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.545)
Summary:
Regrets not seeing CD.
Congratulates CD on election to French Academy.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
20 Aug 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.546)
Summary:
Comments on GJR’s lecture on animal intelligence [Rep. BAAS].
Comments on J. R. L. Delboeuf, La psychologie [1876].
Suggests that GJR keep a young monkey to observe.
Contributor:
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