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
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Note on errata in first volume of Descent.
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.
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.