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Darwin Correspondence Project

Charlotte Elizabeth Romanes

1852–1911

Sister of George John Romanes. Participated in an experiment in which she kept a cebus monkey at her home and recorded its behaviour in a diary, which was published as part of her brother’s work Animal intelligence.

Sources

BMD (Birth index)

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations, 1858–1966) (Ancestry.com, accessed 15 January 2018)

E. D. Romanes 1896

G. J. Romanes 1882, pp. 484–95

Bibliography

BMD: General Register Office, England and Wales civil registration indexes. England & Wales birth index, 1837–1983. England and Wales marriage index, 1837–1983. England and Wales death index, 1837–1983. Online database. Provo, Utah: The Generations Network. 2006. www.ancestry.com.

Romanes, Ethel Duncan. 1896. The life and letters of George John Romanes M.A., LL.D., F.R.S. London, New York, and Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co.

Romanes, George John. 1882a. Animal intelligence. International Scientific Series, vol. 41. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co.

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