Will supply CD with information "as far as my knowledge extends".
Suggests CD visit him.
Will supply CD with information "as far as my knowledge extends".
Suggests CD visit him.
Is pleased CD approved of his effort ["Address in surgery", see 5219] in which he alluded to CD’s views.
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.
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.
Thanks CD for the gift of his new work [Variation].
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.
Asks whether he may come with F. C. Donders to visit CD.
Reports his observations on the concurrence of orbicular muscle spasms, engorgement of eyes with blood, and formation of tears.
F. C. Donders coming to congress. Wants to arrange visit.
Arranges to bring F. C. Donders to visit Down.
Thanks CD for Expression, comments on it.
Describes celebration of F. C. Donders’ 25th year as professor at Utrecht.
Discusses hereditary character of hypermetropia. Notes views of F. C. Donders on the subject.
Regrets he cannot hear lecture by F. C. Donders.
Hopes to see WB before he returns home.
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".
"I shall not be in London on Monday, but I have written to my Brother to ask him to aid you"
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.
Will send portion of copied manuscript [of Variation 2: 8–10] for WB to examine. Asks about inherited abnormalities of the eye.
Thanks WB for his paper ["Address in surgery", Br. Med. J. (1866): 186–97, read at British Medical Association annual meeting, 9 Aug 1866].
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.
Thanks for reply to queries. Spectroscope an instance of unimagined glorious prospects of science.