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From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
Sir John Paget Bowman (private collection)
Summary:

Will supply CD with information "as far as my knowledge extends".

Suggests CD visit him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Oct 1866
Source of text:
DAR 160: 266
Summary:

Is pleased CD approved of his effort ["Address in surgery", see 5219] in which he alluded to CD’s views.

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From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 25 Jan 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 265
Summary:

Gives lengthy details from his medical experience on how structural and other changes in the parts of the eye are related to lacrimation.

Mentions belief in CD’s views.

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From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug 1867
Source of text:
DAR 160: 267 (fragile)
Summary:

Supposes that infants’ eyes bulge and become engorged with blood during fits of sneezing or screaming, but doubts Charles Bell’s experiment of opening and observing eyes turn from pale to red [Anatomy and philosophy of expression (1844)].

Discusses the action of the eye when looking at distant objects.

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From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1868
Source of text:
Sir John Paget Bowman (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks CD for the gift of his new work [Variation].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Apr [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 268
Summary:

Asks for precise reference in Charles Bell to subject of CD’s question. Agrees to assist CD’s investigation. Asks about Bell’s observations on eyes engorged with blood. Has noticed that eyes of children with excessive photophobia tend to be pale when forced open.

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From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Sept [1869]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Asks whether he may come with F. C. Donders to visit CD.

Contributor:
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From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 269
Summary:

Reports his observations on the concurrence of orbicular muscle spasms, engorgement of eyes with blood, and formation of tears.

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From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 July 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

F. C. Donders coming to congress. Wants to arrange visit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 July 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Arranges to bring F. C. Donders to visit Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Nov 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Thanks CD for Expression, comments on it.

Describes celebration of F. C. Donders’ 25th year as professor at Utrecht.

Contributor:
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From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Nov 1873
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Discusses hereditary character of hypermetropia. Notes views of F. C. Donders on the subject.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
Date:
1 June [1876]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Regrets he cannot hear lecture by F. C. Donders.

Hopes to see WB before he returns home.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
Date:
22 Feb 1878
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (13 December 1977)
Summary:

Thinks WB’s proposal a very good one. CD could suggest two or three subjects for essays with respect to the vegetable kingdom, but they would require a long course of experiments "& unfortunately there is hardly any one in this country who seems inclined to devote himself to experiments".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
Date:
16 May [1869-81]
Source of text:
George Houle Autographs (dealer) (Catalogue 61, March 1992)
Summary:

"I shall not be in London on Monday, but I have written to my Brother to ask him to aid you"

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
Date:
30 July [1865?]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.301)
Summary:

Thanks WB for his note, states that it will be taken care of on the publication of CD’s book [Variation].

Mentions loss of many months owing to illness.

Thanks WB for favour to CD’s son.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
Date:
10 Mar [1863]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Will send portion of copied manuscript [of Variation 2: 8–10] for WB to examine. Asks about inherited abnormalities of the eye.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
Date:
26 Sept [1866]
Source of text:
Roy Davids Ltd (dealer) (1996)
Summary:

Thanks WB for his paper ["Address in surgery", Br. Med. J. (1866): 186–97, read at British Medical Association annual meeting, 9 Aug 1866].

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
Date:
30 July [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 8 (EH 8820 6060)
Summary:

Plans to write a book on expression. Questions WB on orbicular muscle in screaming infant and function of muscle contractions in looking at a distant object.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
Date:
7 Aug [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 10 (EH 88206062)
Summary:

Thanks for reply to queries. Spectroscope an instance of unimagined glorious prospects of science.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project