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DCP-LETT-9206F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
[before 16 Jan 1873]
Source of text:
Fourth report of the Royal Commission on Scientific Instruction and the Advancement of Science 1874 [C.884] XXII.1 (pp. 31–2)
Summary:

Encourages the government to keep the herbarium and library of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11163

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
2 Oct 1877
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 44455: 120–1)
Summary:

Has read WEG’s article ["The colour sense", Nineteenth Century 2 (1877): 366–88] on H. Magnus’ view. Informs him of a criticism of this view and reply by Magnus in Kosmos. Offers to send the article.

CD has contributed some facts on the difficulty children have in distinguishing colours (or naming them correctly).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11207

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
25 Oct [1877]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 44455: 210)
Summary:

Sends WEG the two articles [see 11163] with references.

CD thinks savages do not have names for shades of colours, which is curious since those he has known have names for every slight promontory or hill.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12181

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
4 Aug [1879]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 44471 ff. 5–6); International Autograph Auctions (dealers), (23 February 2013)
Summary:

Thanks WEG for his essay showing how Homer distinguished between different kinds of movement.

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