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From F. S. B. F. de Chaumont to W. E. Darwin   16 April 1871

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Answers to questions about expression.

Author:  Francis Stephen Bennet François de Chaumont
Addressee:  William Erasmus Darwin
Date:  16 Apr 1871
Classmark:  DAR 162: 136
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7688

From James Crichton-Browne   16 April 1871

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Is sending notes on blushing. Offers information on physiology and pathology of blushing.

Has sent photograph of seven imbeciles in one family.

Author:  James Crichton-Browne
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  16 Apr 1871
Classmark:  DAR 161: 316, 195.1: 49
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7689

To J. N. Hoare   16 April [1871]

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Thanks for the information about the passages in Xenophon and Horace.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Newenham Hoare
Date:  16 Apr [1871]
Classmark:  Stephen R. Marzilli (private collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7689F

To Michael Foster   16 April 1871

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Encloses two questions he hopes MF can answer: the mechanism of transmission by nerves; and the mechanism by which contemplating part of our body, we become conscious of its existence

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Michael Foster
Date:  16 Apr 1871
Classmark:  Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/16); DAR 195.1: 11–13
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7689G
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4.16 Joseph Simms, physiognomy

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< Back to Introduction In September 1874, the American doctor Joseph Simms, then on a three-year lecture tour of Britain, sent Darwin a copy of his book, Nature’s Revelations of Character; Or, Physiognomy Illustrated. He was seeking a public…

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  • … < Back to Introduction In September 1874, the American doctor Joseph Simms, then on a …

Boat Memory

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Boat Memory was one of the indigenous people from Tierra del Fuego brought back to England by Robert FitzRoy, captain of HMS Beagle, in 1830, but he remains as ghostly a figure as his name. What he was called by his own people is unknown, but the name Boat…

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  • … very favourable specimen of the race’ ( Narrative 1: 416). After FitzRoy realised that his …