Encloses a letter from Lady Bell, which should be burnt when read.
Discusses finances.
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Encloses a letter from Lady Bell, which should be burnt when read.
Discusses finances.
Describes her experiences of blushing on her hands.
Is delighted to receive expression. Some comments on swallowing and scratching. Asks to be sent reviews.
Sends CD a copy of the second part of his paper on the remains and antiquities of Olmütz in Moravia.
Thanks for copy of Expression.
Reminiscences of their youth.
A number of students wish to nominate CD as Lord Rector of the University of Aberdeen and JSC inquires whether CD’s state of health would prevent his standing as a candidate.
Asks CD’s opinion of John Denny’s idea that males have prepotent transmission power in plants. A. J. F. Wegmann says the females are prepotent.
Has received Expression and will forward it to his brother [Jean-Charles Houzeau de Lehaie].
Observations on expression: women gnash teeth when sexually excited. W. Africans do not kiss.
Is convinced that 2000 more copies [of Expression] must be printed without delay in order to meet demand. He therefore asks CD to send his corrections to the printer at once.
Thanks for Expression.
Has finished reading Descent and sends some comments [missing].
Sends thanks for Expression; offers some additions, and will send printed queries abroad if CD wishes.
Has been asked to take shares in the Artizans’ Dwellings Co., in which CD is a shareholder. If it is really a project for public good, he would be glad to be associated.
Owen has answered his letter in Nature [7 (1872): 5–7].
A letter from Tyndall [from America] was read at the X Club.
Writes, as a P.S. to his previous letter, stating his friends have advised him not to answer Owen’s attack.
Thanks for CD’s photograph, which recalls the Charles Darwin of olden days.
Thanks for copy [of Expression].
Has now read Charles Bell’s book [Anatomy and philosophy of expression, 3d ed. (1844)].
Reports instance of person, blind from birth, frowning, when supposedly the blind cannot control the muscle required.
The reception of Expression has exceeded even JM’s expectations; 5267 copies were sold at the annual sale. CD’s modesty about the work had misled him about its probable sale.
Going on circumnavigation voyage aboard the Garibaldi.
Praise for Expression.