From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Ray Lankester
Date:
22 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 30, LL 3: 138, 200
Summary:
Asks for photograph of pointed ear of ERL’s friend.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
23 Mar 1871
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42153 ff. 44–5)
Summary:
Amount received from 2d issue of Descent now stands at £840. Would be glad to have 2000 more copies printed because he wants time to collect information for a corrected edition.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Bernard Lewin (Lewin) Hill
Date:
23 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
Dr Robert McLennan-Smith (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks LH for his account of a family weakness of the knee.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Brookes Mason
Date:
24 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Interested in occurrence of hair on backs of weakly children. Asks PBM if he would report particulars of any case he observes during next 6–12 months.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
24 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:
On the flourishing sales of their respective books. Mentions reviews of Descent in Pall Mall Gazette [21 Mar 1871] and in the Spectator [11 Mar 1871, pp. 288–9; 18 Mar 1871, pp. 319–20].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
E. L. Newall
Date:
24 Mar 1871
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (17 July 2008)
Summary:
Sends his signature.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Anne (Annie) Chambers; Anne (Annie) Dowie
Date:
24 Mar 1871
Source of text:
Priestley 1904, p. 16
Summary:
Robert Chambers, AD’s father, spoke of CD’s book [Descent?] during his last hours of life.
CD’s respect for Chambers, to whose scientific work he had not done justice.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Greenwood
Date:
24 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 409, ML 1: 324
Summary:
Encloses a letter [7617] to be forwarded to the author of the review of Descent in Pall Mall Gazette.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
25 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 9 (EH 88205907)
Summary:
Asks WO to act out the sudden discovery of a dreadful object and to observe whether his platysma contracts. CD has found in his notes that it is never contracted in cases of severe dyspnoea [Expression, p. 301].
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:
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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner
Date:
28 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Dc.2.96/5/4a)
Summary:
Discusses errors in Descent. Not surprised that WT is not committed to full acceptance of evolution of man.
At work on Expression. Asks about muscles that raise spines of hedgehog and tail coverts of peacock. Asks about influence of mind on capillaries with regard to blushing. Mentions views of James Paget on influence of the mind on nutrition of body parts.
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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner
Date:
29 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Dc.2.96.5/5)
Summary:
Comments on influence of nervous system on nutrition of body parts as discussed in James Paget’s Lectures on surgical pathology [delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 3d ed. (1870)]. Asks about mental influence on capillary circulation.
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:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Anne Henslow; Anne Barnard
Date:
31 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.390)
Summary:
Thanks AHB for her letter about girl with pointed ears.
His undying gratitude to her father [J. S. Henslow].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Brookes Mason
Date:
31 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.391)
Summary:
Thanks him for information on children with hairy backs.
Discusses paper by J. M. Duncan on the relative weights of male and female infants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project