From:
William Turner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 28 Apr 1866?]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 197
Summary:
Observations on a bird that used a stone to break open a snail.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner
Date:
5 June [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 150
Summary:
Thanks for WT’s papers, especially ["The present aspect of the doctrine of cellular pathology", Edinburgh Med. J. 8 (1863): 873–97].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner
Date:
14 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (DC. 2. 96/5 folio 1)
Summary:
Thinks of adding chapter on man to Variation. Asks about muscles connected to os coccyx in man and existence of other rudimentary organs in man.
Sends copy of Origin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner
Date:
24 [Dec 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 152
Summary:
Thanks WT for information about rudimentary parts in man.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner
Date:
15 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Dc.2.96/5 folio 2)
Summary:
Requests information about rudimentary muscles and organs in man. Asks about marrow of os coccyx, and about testes and ovaria in early embryos of both sexes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner
Date:
1 Feb [1867]
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Dc.2.96/5 folio 3)
Summary:
Thanks for information about rudimentary organs. Asks about rudimentary character of human hair and panniculus carnosus.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Turner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Feb 1867
Source of text:
DAR 80: B152–3c
Summary:
On muscles in man for moving skin, hair, ears, etc.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner
Date:
11 Feb [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 155
Summary:
Thanks WT for information.
Will not include chapter on man in Variation but plans separate essay in future.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project