From F. S. B. F. de Chaumont to W. E. Darwin 16 April 1871
Summary
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
Summary
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]
Summary
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
Summary
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 |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Foster, Michael | (1) |
Hoare, J. N. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Crichton-Browne, James | (1) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Foster, Michael | (1) |
François de Chaumont, F. S. B. | (1) |
4.16 Joseph Simms, physiognomy
Summary
< 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
Summary
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 …