From:
James Crichton-Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29–31 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 324
Summary:
On the power of concentration to influence body organs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Crichton-Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 314
Summary:
Sends scraps of information. Everything he has sent is unreservedly at CD’s disposal.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne
Date:
29 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 109–10
Summary:
Thanks GBAD for permission to use his photographs [see 7623] and for the information on the expression of astonishment in monkeys.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Murray Fleming
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 164: 134
Summary:
Discusses breeding fancy pigeons from the wild blue rock-dove.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frederick Herschel Waterhouse
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 March 1871]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0560; Reel 1093
Summary:
Requests testimonial from JH to assist FW in obtaining better appointment on Society's library staff.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Henry W. Field
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 March 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.223
Summary:
Sends [T. F.?] Fremantle's first annual report. [Richard?] Roberts memo was drawn up from information obtained from himself. Has now retired, but with no great financial assistance.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Philip Brookes Mason
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 90: 72–3
Summary:
More details on children with hairy backs;
reasons for greater mortality rate of male children.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
William Odgers
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
29 March 1871
Source of text:
71/1076, VPRS 1187, unit 25, p. 283, outward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Office, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William James Erasmus (Erasmus) Wilson
Date:
29 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 99
Summary:
Wonders whether correspondent might possibly know of any cases in which intense concentration of the mind on one portion of the skin produces dilation of the capillary vessels and hence reddening of the area.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
