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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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen
Date:
2 [May] 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Has just read GA’s article in Fortnightly Review ["A problem of human evolution", 31 (1879): 778–86]. GA’s views very probable. Something wonderful to hear anyone defending sexual selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen
Date:
26 May [1879]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Has GA seen an article on GA’s Colour-sense by a great man, J. R. L. Delboeuf, in Revue Scientifique 24 May 1879? It has pleased CD greatly.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen
Date:
17 Feb 1881
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Thanks for Evolutionist at large [1881]. Envies GA’s power of writing. Some statements are too bold, but several of the views are new to CD and seem "extremely probable".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen
Date:
2 Jan 1882
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Thanks GA for his article ["The daisy’s pedigree", Cornhill Mag. 44 (1881): 168–81].

The evolutionary argument that petals are transformed stamens is "striking and apparently valid". Doubts petals are naturally yellow.

Wallace’s "generalization about much modified parts being splendidly coloured" is also dubious except as both are caused by sexual selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project