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From:
James Shaw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Nov 1865
Source of text:
DAR 177: 149
Summary:

Praises CD’s theory.

Comments on criticism of CD’s work by Duke of Argyll.

Beauty in nature as caused by sexual selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Shaw
Date:
30 Nov 1865
Source of text:
R. Wallace ed. 1899, p. lvi.
Summary:

Gratified that JS defends views of Origin.

Thinks beauty of flowers is solely to attract insects.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Shaw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6–10 Feb 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 14–17
Summary:

Memorandum of a meeting of the Natural History & Antiquarian Society held in Dumfries on Tuesday 6 February 1866.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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
From:
James Shaw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 150
Summary:

Reports instances of birds admiring their images in mirrors or on pictures.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Shaw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 10–13
Summary:

Anecdotes about appreciation of beauty by animals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Shaw
Date:
[23 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.317)
Summary:

Thanks for sending facts on birds admiring themselves; mentions use in new edition [4th] of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Shaw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 151
Summary:

Thanks CD for copy of the Origin [4th ed.]; makes some observations on beauty and ugliness in nature.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Shaw
Date:
24 Nov [1866]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (1986)
Summary:

Has seen the Athenæum and admires his article on beauty ["Feeling of beauty among animals", Athenæum (24 Nov. 1866): 681].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Shaw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 177: 152
Summary:

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Shaw
Date:
20 Feb 1868
Source of text:
Robert Wallace ed. 1899 : lxi
Summary:

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Shaw
Date:
19 Feb 1873
Source of text:
Heritage Auctions (dealers) (22 April 2020, lot 47289)
Summary:

Thanks for a photograph of a donkey and children.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project