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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.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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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?].

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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?

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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