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DCP-LETT-7595

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
Date:
18 Mar 1871
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Comments on FCD’s 1848 work [see 7582] in which he came near to anticipating CD.

Comments on FCD’s paper [on action of the eyelids, see 7203]. Asks about contraction or dilation of the iris due to emotional states, illness, or prostration.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7596

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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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7594

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing
Date:
18 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.388)
Summary:

Thanks TRRS for copy of his book [Essays on Darwinism (1871)].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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