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DCP-LETT-8688

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
20 Dec 1872
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/28)
Summary:

Comments on EH’s forthcoming [Die Kalkschwämme (1872)].

Thinks EH is working much too hard.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8690

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
Date:
21 Dec 1872
Source of text:
DAR 143: 416
Summary:

Mentions publication of Expression.

Asks whether children born blind ever frown, shed tears, or contract orbicular muscles.

Congratulates FCD on his anniversary [as Professor at Utrecht].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8588

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
Date:
[after 21 Dec 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 152
Summary:

Exceptional cases of frowning by children born blind have been reported to CD by R. H. Blair [see 8615]; CD asks WB for information and observations on the use of the muscles around the eye by those blind from birth.

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DCP-LETT-8691

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Hack Tuke
Date:
22 Dec 1872
Source of text:
Boston College Libraries, John J. Burns Library (Authors Collection (MS 1986–087) Box 4, Folder 32)
Summary:

Comments on DHT’s Influence of the mind upon the body [1872].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8696A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Paolo Mantegazza
Date:
28 Dec 1872
Source of text:
University of Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library (MSS gen 30.066)
Summary:

Thanks for the letter commending Expression [see 8692]. CD "was not at all sure the work was worth publishing".

Acknowledges receipt of some pamphlets from PM, which his wife will translate.

Regretfully must refuse PM’s offer to translate Expression since it has been promised to another.

Has now received PM’s Physiology of pleasure [Fisiologia del piacere (1870)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8697

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
30 Dec [1872]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/13)
Summary:

F. M. Balfour wants to experiment on Pangenesis. Asks FG to recommend coloured rabbits that breed true.

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