To G. J. Romanes 18 July 1875
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
July 18. 75
My dear Mr Romanes
I have been much interested by your letter & am truly delighted at the prospect of success.1 Such energy as yours is almost sure to command victory The world will be much more influenced by experiments on animals than on plants.2 But in any case I think a large number of successful results will be necessary to convince physiologists. It is rash to be sanguine, but it will be splendid if you succeed.
My object in writing has been to say that it has only just occurred to me that I have not sent you a copy of my “Insectivorous Plants”;3 if you would care to have a copy & do not possess one, send me a postcard, & one shall be sent. If I do not hear I shall understand.
Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Insectivorous plants. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1875.
Summary
Comments on GJR’s experiments.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10076
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- George John Romanes
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.472)
- Physical description
- LS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10076,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10076.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23
