To G. J. Romanes 26 December 1875
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.
Dec 26. 75
Dear Romanes
I will send the books off by railway on Monday or Tuesday. You may keep that on Medusæ until I ask for it which will probably be never. That on Siphonophora I should like to have back at some future time.1
So far from thinking that you have neglected Pangenesis I have been astonished and pleased that your splendid work on the jelly fishes did not make you throw every other subject to the dogs.2 Even if your experiments turn out a failure, I believe that there will be some compensation in the skill you will have acquired.
Yrs very sincerely | Ch Darwin
P.S. I have been having more correspondence with Galton about Pangenesis & my confusion is more confounded. with respect to the points in which he differs from me.—3
Footnotes
Summary
Sends books.
Discusses GJR’s Pangenesis experiments; views of Galton on the theory.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10325
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- George John Romanes
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.482)
- Physical description
- LS(A) 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10325,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10325.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 23
