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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
9 Nov 1870
Source of text:
DAR 147: 193
Summary:

Has read WO’s paper [see 7361] with great interest. If WO’s views are confirmed he will be able to explain many odd little details about the colouring of animals.

Can WO observe if the platysma myoides is brought into strong action in people suffering from severe dyspnoea?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
17 Nov [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 4 (EH 88205902)
Summary:

Thanks WO for information on platysma, which he did not know could be brought into voluntary action. Is coming to believe it has nothing to do with expression.

On the relation between white colouring and susceptibility to poisonous plants, CD suggests WO send his paper to J. Wyman and propose he investigate whether white as well as black pigs will eat paint-root.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
17 Dec [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 5 (EH 88205903)
Summary:

Thanks WO for valuable letter. Feels he need not trouble any more about platysma. If WO ever sees someone suffering great fear, CD asks him to observe the neck.

Hopes to visit WO when next in London.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
7 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 6 (EH 88205904)
Summary:

Will write again to Tyndall about odours.

Asks for the circumstances under which WO saw a man arrested for murder; quotes from notes he made from WO’s conversation [Expression, p. 294].

Also would like to quote WO on the expression of resignation by persons about to undergo serious operations [Expression, p. 271].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
12 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 7 (EH 88205905)
Summary:

Thanks WO for his replies [to 7551]. Discusses the open mouth in surprise; asks WO to investigate its function in hearing and breathing.

Asks why deaf persons generally keep mouths open.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
18 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 8 (EH 88205906)
Summary:

Agrees that in a deaf person the jaw may fall because of concentrated attention.

In surprise, mouth is opened suddenly and chest filled with air. This expression occurs in all parts of the world. Odd that so simple a movement is so perplexing to understand.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
25 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 9 (EH 88205907)
Summary:

Asks WO to act out the sudden discovery of a dreadful object and to observe whether his platysma contracts. CD has found in his notes that it is never contracted in cases of severe dyspnoea [Expression, p. 301].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
28 [Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 10 (EH 88205908)
Summary:

Thanks WO for his reply to letter of 26 March. Has tried several people and platysma seemed to act, but it is difficult to observe when they shudder.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
13 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 11 (EH 88205909)
Summary:

Reports further observations on contraction of platysma. Has been assisted by J. Wood. [See Expression, pp. 302, 303.]

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
29 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.394)
Summary:

Discusses action of the platysma in a state of fear.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
21 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 12 (EH 88205910)
Summary:

Thanks WO for a paper and for information about platysma. Has asked several persons to observe the muscle during a shivering fit, but all have failed.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
25 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 13 (EH 88205911)
Summary:

Sends notes on left- and right-handedness from observations made on his eldest son as an infant.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
5 May [1873]
Source of text:
James P. Evans (private collection)
Summary:

Recommends H. Müller’s Die Befruchtung den Blumen durch Insekten (1873).

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
[4 Dec] 1874 or [10 or 17] Dec 1875 or [12 Jan] 1877
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.460)
Summary:

Invites WO to lunch.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
22 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 14 (EH 88205912)
Summary:

Asks whether the twins WO reported to CD [see 5470] were named Macrae. F. Galton has told him of a similar case with twins so named who inherited crooked little fingers from the maternal side [see Variation, 2d ed., 2: 240]. [The twins referred to by WO were actually his sisters, see 10170.]

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
25 Sept 1875
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 15 (EH 88205913)
Summary:

From Galton’s "twin study" he suspects that some progenitor of WO’s had the peculiarities in question.

Has collected cases of signs of assent for a revised edition of Expression.

Suggests bees visit same species because they know how far to insert proboscis and thus save time.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
22 July [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 261.5: 16 (EH 88205914)
Summary:

Would like to cite WO’s case of bees perforating white but not blue monkshood (Aconitum napellus) in his next book [Cross and self-fertilisation, pp. 427–8]. Believes it is probably sterile if insects are excluded.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
17 Aug 1878
Source of text:
Ogle trans. 1878, pp. v–vi
Summary:

Is glad WO is undertaking the editing of Anton Kerner’s book [Schutzmittel der Blüthen gegen unberufene Gäste (1876)], which appears to open out "highly original & curious fields of research". [Used as prefatory letter to Kerner, Flowers and their unbidden guests, The translation revised and edited by W. Ogle (1878).]

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
[after 27 Nov 1878]
Source of text:
Christie’s, New York (dealers) (October 1996)
Summary:

Thanks for his translation of [Anton] Kerner [Flowers and their unbidden guests: the translation revised and edited by W. Ogle (1878)].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
16 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 203
Summary:

Thanks WO for advice and assistance for his son, Horace.

Has read Kerner’s book [see 11666]; finds the translation "as clear as daylight" but fears it is too good for the English public who like "very washy food".

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