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DCP-LETT-5596

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5597

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 349
Summary:

He is unacquainted with Brehm’s work [Thierleben]. Asks that a volume be sent so he can form an opinion on publishing it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5598

From:
Robert Swinhoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug 1867
Source of text:
DAR 177: 330
Summary:

Will do his best to get observations on expression among the Chinese.

Reports observations on hedgehogs collecting fruit with their spines.

Discusses the domestic pig of Formosa, its wild ancestors, and its capacity to breed with other races.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

SOMERVILLE545

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
5 Aug 1867
Source of text:
169, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel5027

From:
Matthew Arnold
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 August 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.408
Summary:

Thanking him for sending the translation of Friedrich Schiller [Schillers Spaziergang, Translated into Latin Verse, 1867].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1366

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
5 August 1867
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.158, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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