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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-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.

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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-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?

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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