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DCP-LETT-8179

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
Date:
25 Jan 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Discusses role of orbicular muscle and distended veins in eye in secretion of tears. Asks WB’s opinion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8280

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
Date:
8 Apr [1872]
Source of text:
Sir John Paget Bowman (private collection)
Summary:

Asks to borrow "Sölberg Wells, Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye 1869" referred to by F. C. Donders.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8292

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
Date:
19 Apr [1872]
Source of text:
Sir John Paget Bowman (private collection)
Summary:

Returns borrowed book. Is surprised that any of us have eyes "seeing what a frightful number of horrid diseases the eye is liable to".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8588

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
Date:
[after 21 Dec 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 152
Summary:

Exceptional cases of frowning by children born blind have been reported to CD by R. H. Blair [see 8615]; CD asks WB for information and observations on the use of the muscles around the eye by those blind from birth.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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