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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
Date:
[before 26] Jan [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Sends enclosure copied from letter of F. C. Donders [7207?] dealing with orbicular muscle. Asks about secretion of tears resulting from spasmodic action of orbicular muscle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 269
Summary:

Reports his observations on the concurrence of orbicular muscle spasms, engorgement of eyes with blood, and formation of tears.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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