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From:
Allen, Fanny
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
10 November [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 219.11: 13
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Allen, Fanny
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
8 December [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 28
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Allen, Fanny
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
23 January [1875]
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 31
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Mar [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 41
Summary:
Sends MS of his paper, "On the coloration of flowers and fruits", filling a gap in CD’s theory relating to these structures, and asks for CD’s comments.
Plans a book on colour sense.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Mar [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 42
Summary:
Thanks for comments on paper and references to related works. Clarifies points on colour distinction between energy-absorbing (green) and energy-expending (bright-hued) portions of plants and on the influence of flower colour in modifying the insect organism.
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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.
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From:
Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Feb [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 44
Summary:
Thanks for criticisms of Colour-sense.
Clarifies his views that actions desirable for species result in development of nervous organs capable of pleasurable stimulation.
Believes that all "tastes" occurring in nature are explicable with reference to ancestral habits and that none is purely arbitrary.
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From:
Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 159: 45
Summary:
Thanks for postcard informing him of Delboeuf’s review of his book; he had already seen review.
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From:
Joseph Antisell Allen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 July 1878
Source of text:
DAR 159: 50
Summary:
Explains that it was his son, Grant, who sent JAA’s article defending Darwinian origins of morality.
Comments on CD’s Canadian admirers
and asks whether Grant may visit CD at Down.
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From:
Thomas Allen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 159: 51
Summary:
Encloses draft bill about vivisection; CD and friends may have influence enough to get it introduced in Commons or Lords; TA and the Cruelty Society do not. The Society, however, can pay for preparation of bill.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Allen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Apr 1875
Source of text:
DAR 159: 52
Summary:
Encloses extract which suggests that CD and friends oppose any restriction on vivisection; asks CD to state his principles. Another bill is being sketched for Cruelty Society.
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From:
William Allingham
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
19 November 1877
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 159-160
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
George James Allman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1871
Source of text:
DAR 159: 53
Summary:
Learned of CD’s interest in new facts bearing on origins of specific forms and sends proof sheets of his Monograph on tubularian hydroids [1871–2] stating his views on the descent of existing hydroids from ancient graptolites.
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From:
George James Allman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Apr 1872
Source of text:
DAR 159: 54
Summary:
Thanks for sending translation of A. W. Malm’s paper ["On flatfishes", K. Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Handl. N. F. 7 (1867–8) no. 4]; thinks it establishes that eye migrates across surface of head rather than through the skull.
Considers the relationship between direction of locomotion and the presence of stalked eyes in Crustacea.
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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George James Allman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 159: 55
Summary:
On Royal Society Council’s deliberations on awards. GJA argues that older men should be given first claim lest they die neglected; CD had stressed importance of encouraging younger men.
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From:
George James Allman
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
26 September 1878
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 418-419
Summary:
No summary available.
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From:
Edward Richard Alston
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
13 August 1879
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 42-43
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Althaus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Dec 1872
Source of text:
DAR 159: 56
Summary:
In his admirable work on expression CD has left out influence of fifth pair of cerebral nerves on the portiodura and on physiognomy; sends reference to his paper on this subject ["On certain points in the physiology and pathology of the fifth pair of cerebral nerves", Med.-Chir. Trans. 52 (1869): 27–42].
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From:
Amadeo I, King of Spain
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
18 March 1872
Source of text:
RB MSS M200b.50, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1874
Source of text:
DAR 230: 37
Summary:
CD elected Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [See 9305.]
Contributor:
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