From:
Sarah Elizabeth (Elizabeth) Wedgwood
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[30 Mar – 12 Apr 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 70
Summary:
Observations on the first appearance of tears in a baby.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
Date:
30 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
Doris Harris Autographs (dealer) (no date)
Summary:
Clarifies his earlier query on Bell’s observations. Seeks confirmation of Bell’s statement that the conjunctiva of a child whose eyes are opened forcibly during a screaming fit become engorged with blood. CD has noted a relationship between contraction of the orbicular muscle and secretion of tears; can WB explain why they appear related?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Bush
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 83: 161-2
Summary:
His impression is that male rats outnumber females. Males are pugnacious and polygamous. Gives details of the inheritance of colour in a colony he kept.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Cuthbert Collingwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 214
Summary:
Sends CD his book [Naturalist on the China Sea (1868)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
30 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1: 1–52/17)
Summary:
Now understands importance of swim-bladder in selachians. Always imagined animal like Lepidosiren was parent form of vertebrates.
Has been nearly a month in London, collecting facts on sexual selection from breeders and at Zoological Gardens.
Astonished at hybrid of rabbit and hare. Is it certain that work was done with hare?
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Roderick Impey Murchison
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 March 1868]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0384; Reel 1087
Summary:
Death of Pierce Butler. Recommended F. W. Holland, who has explored Palestine, to Henry James. RM has been too busy to keep track of survey fund.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project