From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
30 June 1877
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36173)
Summary:
CD interested in EK’s argument against belief that sense of colour has been recently acquired by man. Describes his observations of the difficulty his own children had in distinguishing, or naming, colours.
Adds that it appeared to him the gustatory sense of his children, when young, differed from that of grown-up persons.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project