To Grant Allen [before 21 February 1879]
Summary
Read GA’s book [The colour-sense] with "great interest". Makes criticisms and suggestions.
Cannot believe in GA’s theory of the origin of pleasure and pain.
Is glad he defends sexual selection;
CD finds A. R. Wallace’s explanations "mere empty words" and for many years he has "quite doubted [ARW’s] scientific judgment".
Considers the possible effect of environmental colour on the colour tastes of animals.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen |
| Date: | [before 21 Feb 1879] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11891 |
To R. B. Sharpe 21 February [1879]
Summary
Sends short testimonial [missing] for RBS, but doubts its value as he has has already given one for the same office [to A. G. Butler, see 11888].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Bowdler Sharpe |
| Date: | 21 Feb [1879] |
| Classmark: | McGill University Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Manuscript Collection: Folio A.L.S. Charles Darwin) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11892 |
To the British Museum 21 February 1879
Summary
Letter of recommendation for Richard Bowdler Sharpe, ornithologist.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | British Museum |
| Date: | 21 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 17) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11893 |
From Grant Allen 21 February [1879]
Summary
Thanks for criticisms of Colour-sense.
Clarifies his views that actions desirable for species result in development of nervous organs capable of pleasurable stimulation.
Believes that all "tastes" occurring in nature are explicable with reference to ancestral habits and that none is purely arbitrary.
| Author: | Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Feb [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 159: 44 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11894 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 21 February [1879]
Summary
Wants to borrow Duchartre’s Éléments de botanique [1867].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 21 Feb [1879] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 160–1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11895 |
To the Darwin children 21 February 1879
Summary
Circular about the distribution of the overplus of his income and advice on investment.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield |
| Date: | 21 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 153 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11896 |
From Karl Höchberg 21 February 1879
Summary
Describes health-related arguments for vegetarianism. Notes arguments that anthropoid apes are vegetarians. Asks whether man is sufficiently adapted to mixed diet so that meat is not harmful?
| Author: | Karl Höchberg |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 227 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11897 |
From C. W. Hamilton 21 February 1879
Summary
Encloses a press clipping [missing] of his observations [on stem structure?].
| Author: | Charles William Hamilton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 91 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11898 |
To Francis Darwin 21 February [1879]
Summary
Is increasing FD’s allowance.
Has begun his chapter on sleep of plants [for Movement in plants].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Feb [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 211: 50 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11899 |
| letter | (9) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Allen, Grant | (1) |
| Hamilton, C. W. | (1) |
| Höchberg, Karl | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Darwin, Francis | (2) |
| Allen, Grant | (1) |
| British Museum | (1) |
| Darwin, Elizabeth | (1) |
| Allen, Grant | (2) |
| British Museum | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Darwin, Elizabeth | (1) |
| Darwin, Francis | (2) |
| Darwin, G. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, H. E. | (1) |
| Darwin, Horace | (1) |
| Darwin, Leonard | (1) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
| Hamilton, C. W. | (1) |
| Höchberg, Karl | (1) |
| Litchfield, H. E. | (1) |
| Sharpe, R. B. | (1) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (1) |
