From:
Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 243
Summary:
Gives CD permission to use photographs of expressions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Maria Burnley Hume; Maria Burnley Gubbins; Maria Burnley Bathoe
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 87: 31–6
Summary:
Anecdotal comments on various sections of Descent:
Red Indians erecting their ears;
reasoning in a pet antelope, stag deer, and mongoose;
use of foot as prehensile organ by carpenters in India.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mary Charlton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 135
Summary:
Thanks for £50 contribution to Edward Cresy’s memorial. £1000 collected so far for an annuity for Mrs Cresy.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
25 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 2
Summary:
If FD gets the chance, will he observe whether the platysma contracts in a shivering fit? Wants much to know whether the platysma of frightened patients contracts before chloroform is given.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 103: 65–8
Summary:
Answers CD’s questions.
Reception of Descent. Evolution accepted everywhere; descent of man accepted calmly.
Morocco plans.
Fears for Huxley, who is overworked.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 242
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s letter on his review of Descent in the Pall Mall Gazette [21 Mar 1871].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adolph Diedrich Kindermann
Date:
[27 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 98
Summary:
Wants permission to have some of AK’s photographs copied for Expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 193–4
Summary:
Sends Hibiscus
and enclosure [Queries about expression?] on chance of "any point being observed" in Morocco.
Murray informs him edition of Descent will probably be 6500 copies.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
28 [Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 10 (EH 88205908)
Summary:
Thanks WO for his reply to letter of 26 March. Has tried several people and platysma seemed to act, but it is difficult to observe when they shudder.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Harrison William Weir
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 181: 72
Summary:
Effects of first impregnation on litters from subsequent pregnancies.
Power of selective breeding to produce different varieties.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 162: 228
Summary:
Answers to CD’s queries will take time. CD may not be aware of the influence of accommodation on the diameter of the pupil of the eye. Parrots, for example, contract or dilate the pupil independently of amount of light [see Expression, p. 304]. Sends his book on the subject [On the anomalies of accommodation and refraction of the eye (1864)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
28 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 335
Summary:
Asks whether capillary circulation is ever influenced by the mind’s being directed intently to any part of the body.
Has JC-B ever seen idiots blush? JC-B’s MS on blushing is capital.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Turner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 28 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 88: 82
Summary:
Note on errata in first volume of Descent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William James Erasmus (Erasmus) Wilson
Date:
29 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 99
Summary:
Wonders whether correspondent might possibly know of any cases in which intense concentration of the mind on one portion of the skin produces dilation of the capillary vessels and hence reddening of the area.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne
Date:
29 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 109–10
Summary:
Thanks GBAD for permission to use his photographs [see 7623] and for the information on the expression of astonishment in monkeys.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Philip Brookes Mason
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 90: 72–3
Summary:
More details on children with hairy backs;
reasons for greater mortality rate of male children.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Murray Fleming
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 164: 134
Summary:
Discusses breeding fancy pigeons from the wild blue rock-dove.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Crichton-Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 314
Summary:
Sends scraps of information. Everything he has sent is unreservedly at CD’s disposal.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Édouard Joseph Louis Marie (Édouard) van Beneden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 133
Summary:
Many thanks for copy of Descent.
Would like to visit CD when he comes to England.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Crichton-Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29–31 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 324
Summary:
On the power of concentration to influence body organs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project