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]
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]
Summary
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]
Summary
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]
Summary
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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Hooker, J. D. | (17) |
Cooke, R. F. | (14) |
John Murray | (13) |
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