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To G. J. Romanes   [18 January 1879]

From C. Darwin, Down, Beckenham.

I see advertised

Vignoli— Fundamentalgesetz der Intelligenz im Thierreich. Versuch einer vergleich Psychologie 234 pp 8vo Leipz 1879— 4/–1

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Postmark: JA 18 79

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Romanes was working on a book on animal intelligence (Mental evolution in animals; Romanes 1883). Tito Vignoli’s book was titled Über das Fundamentalgesetz der Intelligenz im Thierreich: Versuch einer vergleichenden Psychologie (On the fundamental law of intelligence in the animal kingdom: an experiment in comparative psychology; Vignoli 1879). It was a translation from the Italian of Vignoli 1877.

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0.1 C. Darwin] after del ‘Mrs.’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11833,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11833