From Grant Allen 13 March [1878]
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.
Author: | Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Mar [1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 41 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11420 |
From Grant Allen 19 March [1878]
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.
Author: | Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Mar [1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 42 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11432 |
From Grant Allen 12 February 1879
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.
Author: | Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Feb 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 43 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11873 |
From Grant Allen 21 February [1879]
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.
Author: | Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Feb [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 44 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11894 |
From Grant Allen 29 May 1879
Summary
Thanks for postcard informing him of Delboeuf’s review of his book; he had already seen review.
Author: | Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 May 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 45 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12068 |
From Grant Allen 19 February [1881]
Author: | Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Feb [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 47 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13057 |
From Grant Allen 10 December [1881]
Summary
Thanks for copy of Origin with its flattering inscription.
Hopes some day to have leisure to do original research.
Author: | Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Dec [1881] |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 48 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13545 |
From Grant Allen 24 March 1882
Summary
CD and other friends who got up fund for GA in 1879 have now bought him a microscope; thanks CD, especially as the idea came from him; plans to take up original observations with it.
Author: | Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 24 Mar 1882 |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 49 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13736 |