From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Sept [1869]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Asks whether he may come with F. C. Donders to visit CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Asks whether he may come with F. C. Donders to visit CD.
Asks about Charles Bell’s statement concerning contraction of eye muscles. Asks whether such contraction is related to secretion of tears.
CD thanks FS for his note on Scolytus. Asks that his son [E. A. Smith] send proofs when the last woodcuts [for Coleoptera chapter of Descent] are completed.
There is no hurry for information. Delighted that FCD is making experiments.
It was a sincere pleasure to make FCD’s acquaintance.
Explains how he, as "an orthodox clergyman" reading CD’s works, was totally convinced by his arguments. Expresses pleasure "that Science might make gigantic strides without offering such collateral opinions as, if true, would certainly dispense with clergymen altogether".