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DCP-LETT-8279

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
Date:
8 Apr 1872
Source of text:
DAR 143: 413
Summary:

Thanks FCD for information, which will make him "strike out a good deal".

Has received German pamphlet.

Will read work by John Soelberg Wells [? A treatise on the diseases of the eye (1869, 1870)].

Discusses his work on expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8302

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
Date:
29 Apr [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 414
Summary:

Expresses gratitude on election to Royal Netherlands Academy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8391

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
Date:
17 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 143: 415
Summary:

Would be impractical to have FCD check references to physiology in proofs [of Expression]. William Bowman has checked chapter on weeping.

Invites FCD to visit Down when he comes to England in July.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8690

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
Date:
21 Dec 1872
Source of text:
DAR 143: 416
Summary:

Mentions publication of Expression.

Asks whether children born blind ever frown, shed tears, or contract orbicular muscles.

Congratulates FCD on his anniversary [as Professor at Utrecht].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9535

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
Date:
7 July 1874
Source of text:
DAR 143: 417
Summary:

Asks about the effect of atropine on the eye. Is interested in parallel case: influence of phosphate of ammonia on glands of Drosera.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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