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DCP-LETT-11891

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.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11967

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

DCP-LETT-12062

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.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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