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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-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-6149

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 and 8 Apr 1868
Source of text:
DAR 162: 81; Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 34)
Summary:

Langstaff has seen no trace of blushing on the body.

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-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-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-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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