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From:
Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 159: 43
Summary:

Has sent copy of his new book, Colour-sense [1879]; in anticipation of criticism, he justifies his reliance on recorded observations rather than experiments, by the heavy demands of his career as a journalist.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Friedrich Theodor Karl (Karl) Beger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 12 Feb 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 121
Summary:

Birthday wishes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Avery Crawley
Date:
12 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 143: 302
Summary:

Can give no information. Has never read works of Aristotle, but has unbounded respect for him as observer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Greiz College
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 94r
Summary:

Send 70th birthday congratulations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
Date:
12 Feb [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 440
Summary:

Has just heard that HM has been treated shamefully by his Government. What has happened?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 312
Summary:

Seventieth birthday greetings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Naples Zoological Station
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 172: 2
Summary:

Seventieth birthday greetings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project