ROMANES, George John (1848 – 1894)
1848 – 1894
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
Image source Elliott & Fry · Romanes, George John; Romanes, Ethel Duncan (1896) The Life and Letters of George John Romanes (New ed.), London : Longmans, Green and Company, p. front · Public domain
1877 CE–1880 CE
#632
Observations on the locomotor system of Medusae. 3 pts.
Charles Sherrington described the significance of Romanes' research on jellyfish in terms of its impact on cardiac physiology: "Romanes's observations carried out with simple means were novel and fundamental. The ques…
1883 CE
#7945
Mental evolution in animals. With a posthumous essay on instinct by Charles Darwin.
Includes the first editon of Darwin's most significant contribution to psychology. This was part of Chapter 10 of Darwin's unpublished "big book" on the origin of species. Romanes attempted, with Darwin, to develop a …