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From Grant Allen   13 March [1878]

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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]

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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

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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]

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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

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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]

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Thanks for compliments on Evolutionist at large.

Reports on his improving health.

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]

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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

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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
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