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DCP-LETT-5109

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[18 June 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 109: A70
Summary:

Sends some specimens of three kinds of buckthorn.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5128

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 June [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 109: A77
Summary:

Thinks Rhamnus is a case of a dimorphic plant that has become dioecious.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5129

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 June [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 109: A80
Summary:

"It [Rhamnus catharticus?] is certainly a case of dimorphic become dioecious."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5134

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 June [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 109: A78–9, A47–9
Summary:

Sends flowers of the differing kinds [of Rhamnus?] with observations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5136F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[26–8 June 1866]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 28)
Summary:

He has had a great struggle with Buckthorn, and would like CD to see the measurements some time.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5185F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 and 9 Aug 1866
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 23)
Summary:

Notes on examining Rhamnus Frangula

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5273F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Nov [1866]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 24)
Summary:

Has made will. Discusses financial arrangements and asks whether CD would like a mortgage.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5460F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar [1867]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 27)
Summary:

Sends CD a Cardigan Jacket, ‘one of the most delightful inventions of the age’.

Discusses the Duke of Argyll.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5682F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Nov 1867
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 31)
Summary:

Suggests his father lend him the money to pay WED’s succession duty and thereby secure a discount.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5692F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Nov [1867]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 26)
Summary:

Thanks CD for £200 and discusses meeting in London at the beginning of December.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5952

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
28 Feb [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 86
Summary:

Crying in babies.

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-5970F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 35)
Summary:

Asks CD to collect from the Jermyn Street Museum a box containing a skull and bones which belong to Mr Cumberbatch.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5981

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 87
Summary:

Crying in babies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6069

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 25 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 82
Summary:

Blushing in boys blind from birth. Has got information from R. H. Blair, the principal of a college for the blind.

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-6089F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1868
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 32)
Summary:

Discusses how they might enquire about any provisions in the laws of partnership concerning lunacy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6100

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[7 Apr 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 99
Summary:

Describes the action of facial muscles at the onset of crying as observed by Langstaff.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6122

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15 Apr 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 84
Summary:

Gives details of the subjects on whom Langstaff made his observations on crying. Langstaff has not seen the platysma contract under chloroform.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6137

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[22? Apr 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 83, 80, 80/1
Summary:

Charles Langstaff on action of muscles in crying. He believes the primary object of the contraction of the orbicularis is to protect the eye from blood.

Blushing on the body.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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