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To Karl Höchberg   13 January 1879

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Thanks for essay on origin of taste for music. Will send to Edmund Gurney.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Karl Höchberg
Date:  13 Jan 1879
Classmark:  DAR 145: 129
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11827

From Karl Höchberg   17 January 1879

Summary

Points out comment by Grant Allen supporting his theory of the origin of colour sense. Is English translation of his essay possible?

Author:  Karl Höchberg
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  17 Jan 1879
Classmark:  DAR 166: 226
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11832

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

To Karl Höchberg   25 February 1879

Summary

Discusses the value of a vegetable diet.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Karl Höchberg
Date:  25 Feb 1879
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.560)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11902
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