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To William Ogle   25 March [1871]

Summary

Asks WO to act out the sudden discovery of a dreadful object and to observe whether his platysma contracts. CD has found in his notes that it is never contracted in cases of severe dyspnoea [Expression, p. 301].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Ogle
Date:  25 Mar [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 261.5: 9 (EH 88205907)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7622

To Francis Darwin   25 March [1871]

Summary

If FD gets the chance, will he observe whether the platysma contracts in a shivering fit? Wants much to know whether the platysma of frightened patients contracts before chloroform is given.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Darwin
Date:  25 Mar [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 271.3: 2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7626

To A. D. Kindermann   [27 March 1871]

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Summary

Wants permission to have some of AK’s photographs copied for Expression.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Adolph Diedrich Kindermann
Date:  [27 Mar 1871]
Classmark:  DAR 96: 98
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7629

To J. D. Hooker   28 March [1871]

Summary

Sends Hibiscus

and enclosure [Queries about expression?] on chance of "any point being observed" in Morocco.

Murray informs him edition of Descent will probably be 6500 copies.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  28 Mar [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 94: 193–4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7630

To William Ogle   28 [March 1871]

Summary

Thanks WO for his reply to letter of 26 March. Has tried several people and platysma seemed to act, but it is difficult to observe when they shudder.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Ogle
Date:  28 [Mar 1871]
Classmark:  DAR 261.5: 10 (EH 88205908)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7631

To William Turner   28 March [1871]

Summary

Discusses errors in Descent. Not surprised that WT is not committed to full acceptance of evolution of man.

At work on Expression. Asks about muscles that raise spines of hedgehog and tail coverts of peacock. Asks about influence of mind on capillaries with regard to blushing. Mentions views of James Paget on influence of the mind on nutrition of body parts.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner
Date:  28 Mar [1871]
Classmark:  The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Dc.2.96/5/4a)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7632

To James Crichton-Browne   28 March [1871]

Summary

Asks whether capillary circulation is ever influenced by the mind’s being directed intently to any part of the body.

Has JC-B ever seen idiots blush? JC-B’s MS on blushing is capital.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Crichton-Browne
Date:  28 Mar [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 143: 335
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7635

To William Turner   29 March [1871]

Summary

Comments on influence of nervous system on nutrition of body parts as discussed in James Paget’s Lectures on surgical pathology [delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 3d ed. (1870)]. Asks about mental influence on capillary circulation.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner
Date:  29 Mar [1871]
Classmark:  The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Dc.2.96.5/5)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7638

To Erasmus Wilson   29 March [1871]

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Wonders whether correspondent might possibly know of any cases in which intense concentration of the mind on one portion of the skin produces dilation of the capillary vessels and hence reddening of the area.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William James Erasmus (Erasmus) Wilson
Date:  29 Mar [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 96: 99
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7639

To G. B. A. Duchenne   29 March [1871]

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Thanks GBAD for permission to use his photographs [see 7623] and for the information on the expression of astonishment in monkeys.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne
Date:  29 Mar [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 96: 109–10
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7640

To P. B. Mason   31 March [1871]

Summary

Thanks him for information on children with hairy backs.

Discusses paper by J. M. Duncan on the relative weights of male and female infants.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Philip Brookes Mason
Date:  31 Mar [1871]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.391)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7647

To Frederic Harrison   1 April [1871]

Summary

Discusses his concept of beauty. "I daresay I have made too much of natural selection".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Frederic Harrison
Date:  1 Apr [1871]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.392)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7650

To F. J. Wedgwood   [after 1 April 1871?]

Summary

Protests against FJW making the struggle for existence still more odious by calling it ‘selfish competition’.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Frances Julia (Snow) Wedgwood
Date:  [after 1 Apr 1871?]
Classmark:  Christie’s, London (dealers) (3 March 2004)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7651F

To Hubert Airy   5 April [1871]

Summary

Discusses loss of voluntary movement of ears in man and monkey.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Hubert Airy
Date:  5 Apr [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 143: 15
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7659

To John Le Couteur   6 April [1871]

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Is honoured to hear from JLC and would welcome the communication of any facts that he cares to send him.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Le Couteur
Date:  6 Apr [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 185: 106
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7661A

To Thomas Woolner   7 April [1871]

Summary

Asks TW to persuade painters to observe how far down body blush extends on models.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Woolner
Date:  7 Apr [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 148: 381, Woolner 1917, p. 288
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7665

To James Crichton-Browne   7 April [1871]

Summary

Thanks for information about blushing of idiots.

Case of pregnant woman "truly wonderful".

Thanks for photographs.

Has found London photographer, O. G. Rejlander, with passion for photographing expression.

Received information about iris of eye from F. C. Donders; shows contraction and dilation of pupil is very complex.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Crichton-Browne
Date:  7 Apr [1871]
Classmark:  DAR 143: 336
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7666

To J. P. Knight   8 April 1871

Summary

Formally declines dinner invitation.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Prescott Knight
Date:  8 Apr 1871
Classmark:  University of Michigan Library, Special Collections Research Center (Heineman [Album] I, leaf 30)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7667

To Louisa Stevenson   8 April 1871

Summary

Agrees to have his or Emma Darwin’s name added to the General Committee for securing medical education to women.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Louisa Stevenson
Date:  8 Apr 1871
Classmark:  National Library of Scotland (Acc.6414)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7669F

To J. E. Gray   9 April [1871]

Summary

Thanks for information on colour differences in sexes of Lemur.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Edward Gray
Date:  9 Apr [1871]
Classmark:  Boston Society of Natural History (papers at the Museum of Science, Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-7670
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