Gratified that JS defends views of Origin.
Thinks beauty of flowers is solely to attract insects.
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Gratified that JS defends views of Origin.
Thinks beauty of flowers is solely to attract insects.
Discusses beauty of birds and butterflies.
Thanks for sending facts on birds admiring themselves; mentions use in new edition [4th] of Origin.
Has seen the Athenæum and admires his article on beauty ["Feeling of beauty among animals", Athenæum (24 Nov. 1866): 681].
Is obliged for note on right-handedness. The subject is a very curious one, but CD has never attended to it and can give no additional facts.
Praises CD’s theory.
Comments on criticism of CD’s work by Duke of Argyll.
Beauty in nature as caused by sexual selection.
Memorandum of a meeting of the Natural History & Antiquarian Society held in Dumfries on Tuesday 6 February 1866.
Reports instances of birds admiring their images in mirrors or on pictures.
Anecdotes about appreciation of beauty by animals.
Thanks CD for copy of the Origin [4th ed.]; makes some observations on beauty and ugliness in nature.
Mentions review [of Variation] in the Athenæum [15 Feb 1868, pp. 243–4].
Comments on adaptive utility of the right hand, an organ still undergoing specialisation.