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DCP-LETT-7215

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
Date:
3 June [1870]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Thanks FCD for information.

Hopes that translation of his paper will appear in Dublin Journal.

Notes experience of his son [Leonard Darwin] on engorgement of eyes with blood. Discusses secretion of tears when eye muscles are involuntarily contracted.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7210

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[13 June 1870?]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Orders seeds, ripened in Algiers; imported seed would be of no use. [Forwarded to Algiers by JDH, see 7272.]

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DCP-LETT-7238

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
Date:
21 June 1870
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Comments on translation of FCD’s paper ["On the action of the eyelids", Arch. Med. 5 (1870): 20–38].

Speculates that closing eyelids may protect eyes from vibrations.

Discusses publication of Expression.

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