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From:
Leonard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 Mar 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 75
Summary:

Data relating to experiments; shrinkage of earth on drying.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
Date:
29 Mar 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Comments on action of eyes in a person lost in meditation. Asks about Charles Bell’s explanation [in Anatomy of expression (1806, 1844)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
29 Mar [1872]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Comments on FG’s description of a séance at the house of William Crookes.

Will use FG’s words about [H. M. Butler’s] hereditary habit [in Expression, p. 33 n. 8].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Rivers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 173
Summary:

Sends two vines for CD’s experiments, with instructions for grafting.

Mentions a hybrid plum–peach.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project