From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
26 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 143: 156
Summary:
Thanks for Indian [Medical] Gazette. Comments on article.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1873
Source of text:
DAR 160: 337
Summary:
Offers to experiment on the digestibility of chondrin and chlorophyll by Dionaea for CD.
Has noticed that painters depicting complex expressions give different expressions to the two sides of the face.
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From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 47–8, DAR 160: 340
Summary:
Reports negative results of his experiments on digestion of chlorophyll by Drosera and by animals. [See Insectivorous plants, p. 126.]
Sends references for chondrin.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
4 Mar 1874
Source of text:
DAR 143: 159
Summary:
On digestive powers of Drosera and those of higher animals.
Comments on expression on two halves of human face.
Responds to TLB’s views of serpent- and fire-worship.
Poison of venomous snakes.
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From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Mar 1874
Source of text:
DAR 160: 338
Summary:
Writes on the possible origin of serpent-worship.
Is glad CD does not think his view regarding the two sides of the face is erroneous.
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From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 May 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 120–2
Summary:
Comments on his examination of slides [of milk casein?] sent by CD.
Surprised by CD’s finding that a drop of one per cent hydrochloric acid stops digestion of albumen by Drosera.
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From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 July [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 339 (fragile)
Summary:
Encloses a tracing of a portrait of John Bunyan showing the differences of the two sides of the face.
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From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 86–7
Summary:
Observations of effect of pepsin and hydrochloric acid on urea indicate that it is not digested [by Drosera].
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
25 Sept 1874
Source of text:
DAR 143: 162
Summary:
Comments on digestive action of pepsin and hydrochloric acid.
Photograph of Rubens’ picture has not arrived.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29] Oct [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 341
Summary:
Forwards a photograph he thought had been lost. Has noticed that the two sides of the face are often asymmetric in portrait busts and statues.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
30 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 143: 163
Summary:
Discusses expression on two halves of the face. Mentions photograph [of picture by Rubens].
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From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Nov [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 342
Summary:
CD may keep the photograph of "the holy Mary of Egypt". TLB may have been led away by his imagination in thinking that one side of the face expressed repentance and the other devout joy.
Comments on David Ferrier’s observations on electrical stimulation of the brain. Extent of response relates to intensity of stimulus.
Crichton-Browne’s observations on the asymmetry of convolutions on the two sides of the brains of maniacs.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
13 Jan 1877
Source of text:
DAR 143: 165
Summary:
CD asks if he may call next day for talk.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 183
Summary:
Regrets he has not given Zoonomia the attention it deserves. Informs CD that Erasmus Darwin may have anticipated a discovery about paralysis of vessels by exposure to heat [see Erasmus Darwin, p. 109].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
28 Apr 1879
Source of text:
DAR 143: 167
Summary:
Thanks for information about Erasmus Darwin and for lending journal.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 June [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 184–5
Summary:
Has tried in vain to find out about the influence of Erasmus Darwin on the administration of stimulants in fever.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
27 June 1879
Source of text:
DAR 143: 168
Summary:
Sir Robert Christison says Dr Darwin not the first to recommend alcohol for fever.
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 186
Summary:
Thanks for copy of Erasmus Darwin.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
10 Mar 1880
Source of text:
DAR 143: 169
Summary:
Thanks for copy of TLB’s Pharmacology [1880].
Contributor:
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From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 343
Summary:
Sends proofs of lectures he intends to reprint as a book [The Bible and science (1881)]; asks CD if he would check one for errors.
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