From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hubert Airy
Date:
5 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 15
Summary:
Discusses loss of voluntary movement of ears in man and monkey.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Le Couteur
Date:
6 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 106
Summary:
Is honoured to hear from JLC and would welcome the communication of any facts that he cares to send him.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
7 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 336
Summary:
Thanks for information about blushing of idiots.
Case of pregnant woman "truly wonderful".
Thanks for photographs.
Has found London photographer, O. G. Rejlander, with passion for photographing expression.
Received information about iris of eye from F. C. Donders; shows contraction and dilation of pupil is very complex.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Woolner
Date:
7 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 381, Woolner 1917, p. 288
Summary:
Asks TW to persuade painters to observe how far down body blush extends on models.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
9 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 337
Summary:
Asks JC-B to read CD’s MS on confusion of mind, which often or generally accompanies blushing.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
12 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 143: 338
Summary:
Discusses blushing. CD believes confusion of mind alone can account for it. Sends MS for JC-B’s comments and corrections.
Contributor:
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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.]
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Rae Thomson (George) Fraser
Date:
14 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 297
Summary:
Cannot provide comment on GF’s paper for publication. Hopes GF will publish in Nature. Will consider his remarks when revising book [Descent].
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn
Date:
14 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 410
Summary:
Comments on JM’s review of Descent, vol. 2 [Pall Mall Gaz. 13 (1871): 1358–9].
Mistake CD made "in speaking of greatest happiness as the foundation of morals" is unintelligible to CD. Discusses J. S. Mill’s view of moral feelings as natural. Discusses basis of conscience.
Glad to read remarks on hive-bees.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Michael Foster
Date:
16 Apr 1871
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/16); DAR 195.1: 11–13
Summary:
Encloses two questions he hopes MF can answer: the mechanism of transmission by nerves; and the mechanism by which contemplating part of our body, we become conscious of its existence
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
18 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 143: 339; DAR 185: 39
Summary:
Comments on notes by JC-B on relation between blushing and mental disturbance. Asks for further information about blushing. "The single pencil line down this MS is my mark that I have used it once."
Thanks for "dreadful photo of the imbeciles".
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl Heinrich Hermann (Hermann) Hoffmann
Date:
20 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 133
Summary:
Obliged for letter about dog.
Comments on HH’s article ["Zur Geschlechtsbestimmung", Bot. Ztg. 29 (1871): 81–9, 97–109].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
St George Jackson Mivart
Date:
21 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums
Summary:
"If you feel astonished at my bringing man & brutes so near together in their whole nature (though with a wide hiatus) I feel still more astonished, as I believe, at your judgment on this head. I much wish you had enlarged your concluding sentence a little so as to say whether you consider the ordinary mental faculties so distinct, or whether you confine the enormous difference to spiritual powers including the moral sense.––"
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
22 Apr [1871?]
Source of text:
DAR 271.4: 3
Summary:
Please thank Mr Jackson for facts about shrugging, but case not distinct enough. Gestures associated with laughter. Platysma.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hodder Michael Westropp
Date:
22 Apr [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 350
Summary:
Case of the reasoning bear is analogous to the elephant blowing with trunk to bring object within reach.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Thierry (William) Preyer
Date:
30 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 147: 265–7
Summary:
Is sending copy of Descent.
Thanks for copy of WP’s book [Die Blutkrystalle (1871)].
Discusses shape of external ear.
Contributor:
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