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FL-0690

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[13 April 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 51
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FL-1170

From:
Darwin, H. E.; Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
15 [April 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 288
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FL-1172

From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
2 April [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 290
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FL-1174

From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[12 April 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 292
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FL-1175

From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
19 April [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 293
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FL-1176

From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
12 [April 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 294
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-13802

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Peter Martin Duncan
Date:
13 Apr [1868?]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.272)
Summary:

Promises to send coral specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5760

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Moritz Friedrich (Moritz) Wagner
Date:
[Apr–June 1868]
Source of text:
LL 3: 157; DAR 148: 198
Summary:

Thanks MW for his essay [Die Darwin’sche Theorie und das Migrationsgesetz der Organismen (1868)]. Is highly gratified that MW agrees with him to a considerable extent.

Almost wishes that he could believe in the importance of isolation to the same extent as MW.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5965

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13 Apr 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 98
Summary:

Action of facial muscles at onset of crying.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6076

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[7–15 Apr 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 80/4
Summary:

Langstaff has never seen the platysma act, and he believes it to be rudimentary in humans.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6077

From:
Frederick F. Geach
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
Apr 1868
Source of text:
DAR 165: 23
Summary:

Sends expanded answers [to Queries about expression], in view of CD’s statement that his first list had not been sufficiently explanatory. Is pleased that some answers confirmed CD’s views [see Expression, passim].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6078

From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 28 Apr] 1868
Source of text:
DAR 86: C1–2, DAR 84.1: 73–4
Summary:

Proportion of sexes in chaffinches.

Pugnacity of blackbirds and robins.

Harrison Weir reports up to nine eggs in starling nests.

Newspaper report of a sheep born with its owner’s brand.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6079

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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DCP-LETT-6080

From:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Apr 1868
Source of text:
DAR 178: 123
Summary:

Has circulated CD’s Queries about expression and gives some of his observations of the natives.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6081

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
Date:
2 Apr [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 72 (photocopy)
Summary:

Gives Charles Bell’s explanation of the contraction of the orbicularis during screaming and seeks confirmation of his view because the action is "the key-stone of a whole class of expressions". Curious to learn WB’s conclusion in regard to the relation between contraction of the orbicularis and secretion of tears. Notes that voluntary contraction of the orbicularis causes no tears.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6082

From:
George Robert Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Apr 1868
Source of text:
DAR 84.1: 90–1
Summary:

On the changes in plumage of scarlet ibis at the zoo in breeding season.

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DCP-LETT-6083

From:
Johann Xaver Robert (Robert) Caspary
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Apr 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 122
Summary:

Finds important differences between English and German versions of Variation on graft-hybrids.

Experiments and observations on submerged flowers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6084

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Bush
Date:
2 Apr [1868]
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:

Thanks JB for his information. Has heard of analogous cases to JB’s observations on [colours of] crossed rats; the offspring of white and grey mice are stated to be either white or grey and never piebald.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6085

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
3 Apr [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 23)
Summary:

Movement in plants.

Dimorphism.

Would welcome FM’s opinion of Pangenesis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6086

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Apr [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 60–1
Summary:

Asks for [John?] Smith’s exact count of seeds of the crossed and self-fertilised Victoria water-lily. Similar question on Euryale seed and seedlings.

JDH’s coming [BAAS] Presidential Address.

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