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From:
William Bowman
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
15 December 1857
Source of text:
RI MS Conybeare Album, f.31
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
Sir John Paget Bowman (private collection)
Summary:

Will supply CD with information "as far as my knowledge extends".

Suggests CD visit him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Oct 1866
Source of text:
DAR 160: 266
Summary:

Is pleased CD approved of his effort ["Address in surgery", see 5219] in which he alluded to CD’s views.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug 1867
Source of text:
DAR 160: 267 (fragile)
Summary:

Supposes that infants’ eyes bulge and become engorged with blood during fits of sneezing or screaming, but doubts Charles Bell’s experiment of opening and observing eyes turn from pale to red [Anatomy and philosophy of expression (1844)].

Discusses the action of the eye when looking at distant objects.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1868
Source of text:
Sir John Paget Bowman (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks CD for the gift of his new work [Variation].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Apr [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 268
Summary:

Asks for precise reference in Charles Bell to subject of CD’s question. Agrees to assist CD’s investigation. Asks about Bell’s observations on eyes engorged with blood. Has noticed that eyes of children with excessive photophobia tend to be pale when forced open.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Sept [1869]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Asks whether he may come with F. C. Donders to visit CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 269
Summary:

Reports his observations on the concurrence of orbicular muscle spasms, engorgement of eyes with blood, and formation of tears.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 25 Jan 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 265
Summary:

Gives lengthy details from his medical experience on how structural and other changes in the parts of the eye are related to lacrimation.

Mentions belief in CD’s views.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 July 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

F. C. Donders coming to congress. Wants to arrange visit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 July 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Arranges to bring F. C. Donders to visit Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Nov 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Thanks CD for Expression, comments on it.

Describes celebration of F. C. Donders’ 25th year as professor at Utrecht.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Nov 1873
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Discusses hereditary character of hypermetropia. Notes views of F. C. Donders on the subject.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project