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DCP-LETT-7649

From:
James Crichton-Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29–31 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 324
Summary:

On the power of concentration to influence body organs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7643

From:
James Crichton-Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 314
Summary:

Sends scraps of information. Everything he has sent is unreservedly at CD’s disposal.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7640

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne
Date:
29 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 109–10
Summary:

Thanks GBAD for permission to use his photographs [see 7623] and for the information on the expression of astonishment in monkeys.

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DCP-LETT-7642

From:
James Murray Fleming
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 164: 134
Summary:

Discusses breeding fancy pigeons from the wild blue rock-dove.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-7641

From:
Philip Brookes Mason
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 90: 72–3
Summary:

More details on children with hairy backs;

reasons for greater mortality rate of male children.

Contributor:
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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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7639

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William James Erasmus (Erasmus) Wilson
Date:
29 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 99
Summary:

Wonders whether correspondent might possibly know of any cases in which intense concentration of the mind on one portion of the skin produces dilation of the capillary vessels and hence reddening of the area.

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