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From:
Augustine FitzGerald Baker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 May 1873
Source of text:
DAR 160: 19
Summary:

Calls CD’s attention to the fact that Huxley’s view [in Lessons in elementary physiology (1866)] of lymphatic fluid as overflow from blood supports CD’s view of secretion of tears in Expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 May 1873
Source of text:
DAR 172: 61
Summary:

Thanks to CD his candidature for the Zoological Society has been entertained.

Observed a flamingo, at the Zoological Gardens, that vomited on a bustard in answer to the latter’s harsh cries.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project