From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Shaw
Date:
11 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
R. Wallace ed. 1899, pp. lvi–lvii;
Summary:
Discusses beauty of birds and butterflies.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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].
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.