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DCP-LETT-5306

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner
Date:
14 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (DC. 2. 96/5 folio 1)
Summary:

Thinks of adding chapter on man to Variation. Asks about muscles connected to os coccyx in man and existence of other rudimentary organs in man.

Sends copy of Origin.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-5362

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner
Date:
15 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Dc.2.96/5 folio 2)
Summary:

Requests information about rudimentary muscles and organs in man. Asks about marrow of os coccyx, and about testes and ovaria in early embryos of both sexes.

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DCP-LETT-5386

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner
Date:
1 Feb [1867]
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Dc.2.96/5 folio 3)
Summary:

Thanks for information about rudimentary organs. Asks about rudimentary character of human hair and panniculus carnosus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7632

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner
Date:
28 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Dc.2.96/5/4a)
Summary:

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.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7638

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner
Date:
29 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Dc.2.96.5/5)
Summary:

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.

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