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From:
William Turner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 28 Apr 1866?]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 197
Summary:

Observations on a bird that used a stone to break open a snail.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner
Date:
5 June [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 150
Summary:

Thanks for WT’s papers, especially ["The present aspect of the doctrine of cellular pathology", Edinburgh Med. J. 8 (1863): 873–97].

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner
Date:
14 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (DC. 2. 96/5 folio 1)
Summary:

Thinks of adding chapter on man to Variation. Asks about muscles connected to os coccyx in man and existence of other rudimentary organs in man.

Sends copy of Origin.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner
Date:
24 [Dec 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 152
Summary:

Thanks WT for information about rudimentary parts in man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner
Date:
15 Jan [1867]
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Dc.2.96/5 folio 2)
Summary:

Requests information about rudimentary muscles and organs in man. Asks about marrow of os coccyx, and about testes and ovaria in early embryos of both sexes.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner
Date:
1 Feb [1867]
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Dc.2.96/5 folio 3)
Summary:

Thanks for information about rudimentary organs. Asks about rudimentary character of human hair and panniculus carnosus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Turner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Feb 1867
Source of text:
DAR 80: B152–3c
Summary:

On muscles in man for moving skin, hair, ears, etc.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner
Date:
11 Feb [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 155
Summary:

Thanks WT for information.

Will not include chapter on man in Variation but plans separate essay in future.

Contributor:
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From:
William Turner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Jan 1870
Source of text:
DAR 80: B158–9
Summary:

On the development of the mammae and the glands of the skin. R. A. v. Kölliker and Carl von Langer are the authorities [See Descent 1: 209].

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From:
William Turner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1871?]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 196
Summary:

Extract from Robert Knox on hermaphroditism [Lond. Med. Gaz. 12 Jan 1844].

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner
Date:
28 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Dc.2.96/5/4a)
Summary:

Discusses errors in Descent. Not surprised that WT is not committed to full acceptance of evolution of man.

At work on Expression. Asks about muscles that raise spines of hedgehog and tail coverts of peacock. Asks about influence of mind on capillaries with regard to blushing. Mentions views of James Paget on influence of the mind on nutrition of body parts.

Contributor:
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From:
William Turner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 28 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 88: 82
Summary:

Note on errata in first volume of Descent.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner
Date:
29 Mar [1871]
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Dc.2.96.5/5)
Summary:

Comments on influence of nervous system on nutrition of body parts as discussed in James Paget’s Lectures on surgical pathology [delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 3d ed. (1870)]. Asks about mental influence on capillary circulation.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner
Date:
21 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 158
Summary:

Sends £10 subscription for James Murie.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project