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.
Thanks for a photograph of a donkey and children.
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.