Search: letter in document-type 
1870-1879::1879::02::21 in date 
Sorted by:

Showing 1–10 of 10 items

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-11894

From:
Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 44
Summary:

Thanks for criticisms of Colour-sense.

Clarifies his views that actions desirable for species result in development of nervous organs capable of pleasurable stimulation.

Believes that all "tastes" occurring in nature are explicable with reference to ancestral habits and that none is purely arbitrary.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
thumbnail

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
thumbnail

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
Text Online

WCP2390

From:
Henry Eeles Dresser
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
21 February 1879
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 9-10
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11898

From:
Charles William Hamilton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 166: 91
Summary:

Encloses a press clipping [missing] of his observations [on stem structure?].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11897

From:
Karl Höchberg
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 166: 227
Summary:

Describes health-related arguments for vegetarianism. Notes arguments that anthropoid apes are vegetarians. Asks whether man is sufficiently adapted to mixed diet so that meat is not harmful?

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
Author
Addressee
Correspondent
Date
Document type
Repository
Contributor
Transcription available