To W. E. Darwin 8 April [1868]
Summary
Thanks Charles Langstaff for his observations relating to expression. Has requested observations on the platysma. Discusses the actions of other facial muscles, especially during crying. [Encloses 5828.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Apr [1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 124, 128 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6103 |
From F. C. Donders 16 June 1871
Summary
Replies to CD’s queries on movement of the eyes in meditation, and changes in the iris in rage and terror [see Expression, pp. 229, 304].
| Author: | Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 June 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 229 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7821 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter from F. C. Donders, 28 March 1871 and n. 5). CD scored several passages from this section in his copy (see Marginalia 1: 204). CD had asked the question in his letter to Donders of 18 March 1871 . Donders had visited CD on 7 September 1869 (see Correspondence vol. 17, letter from William Bowman, …
To James Crichton-Browne 4 March [1873]
Summary
Pleased that JC-B will review Expression.
Fears he will not be able to improve the book with JC-B’s "wonderfully curious" photographs because Murray printed such a large edition.
Would be glad to have JC-B’s notes on inheritance – "a most important subject".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
| Date: | 4 Mar [1873] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 343 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8798 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter and the letter from James Crichton-Browne, 2 March 1873 . CD had written to Crichton-Browne to check that he had received his copy of Expression ; see letter to James Crichton-Browne, 28 February [1873] , and letter from James Crichton-Browne, 2 March 1873 and n. 1. CD was mistaken; Crichton-Browne had not undertaken to review Expression (see letter from James Crichton-Browne, 2 March 1873 ). For reviews of Expression , see Appendix IV. See Correspondence vol. 20, letter from William Bowman, …
From J. D. Hooker 25 August 1854
Summary
JDH and F. W. Binney identify Calamites specimens as pith casts. They are cryptogams related to, but higher than, Lycopodiaceae and contradict progression.
Insects found in coal.
Lyell says Stonesfield slate marsupials are actually placentals.
JDH reading Alexander Braun on individuality ["Das Individuum der Pflanze in seinem Verhältniss zur Species", Abh. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (Phys. Kl.) (1853): 19–122].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Aug 1854 |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 384 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1581 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (22) |
| Bowman, William | (10) |
| Donders, F. C. | (4) |
| Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (44) |
| Bowman, William | (20) |
| Donders, F. C. | (9) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
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