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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Thanks Charles Langstaff for his observations relating to expression. Has requested observations on the platysma. Discusses the actions of other facial muscles, especially during crying. [Encloses 5828.]
Asks WED whether Langstaff could make some observations on certain facial muscles in expression.
Thanks him for his excellent observations [on Epipactis?]; would like WED to watch for some large insect visiting the plant.
Asks WED to observe a suppressed yawn.
Asks whether scratching a tickling point makes tears come to his eyes.
CD wants WED to make some measurements on mid-styled [Primula sinensis] plants.
CD’s health.
Family and local news.
CD would like to see Rhamnus, as an American species is dimorphic.
Sends red cowslip pollen to be measured.
CD says Meneanthes is now in flower.
Two letters for WED at E. A. Darwin's. G. H. Darwin has been to dentist. Please collect and pay for GHD’s skates.
CD much obliged for specimen and drawings.
Glad to hear of the plant; CD instructs WED to make further observations. If it is a good case he will insist on WED’s sending a communication to the Linnean Society.