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DCP-LETT-7632

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner
Date:
28 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Dc.2.96/5/4a)
Summary:

Discusses errors in Descent. Not surprised that WT is not committed to full acceptance of evolution of man.

At work on Expression. Asks about muscles that raise spines of hedgehog and tail coverts of peacock. Asks about influence of mind on capillaries with regard to blushing. Mentions views of James Paget on influence of the mind on nutrition of body parts.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7638

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.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8818

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner
Date:
21 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 158
Summary:

Sends £10 subscription for James Murie.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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