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DCP-LETT-11891

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen
Date:
[before 21 Feb 1879]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11893

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
British Museum
Date:
21 Feb 1879
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 17)
Summary:

Letter of recommendation for Richard Bowdler Sharpe, ornithologist.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11896

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
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
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 153
Summary:

Circular about the distribution of the overplus of his income and advice on investment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11899

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
21 Feb [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 50
Summary:

Is increasing FD’s allowance.

Has begun his chapter on sleep of plants [for Movement in plants].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11892

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Bowdler Sharpe
Date:
21 Feb [1879]
Source of text:
McGill University Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Manuscript Collection: Folio A.L.S. Charles Darwin)
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].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11895

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
21 Feb [1879]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 160–1)
Summary:

Wants to borrow Duchartre’s Éléments de botanique [1867].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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