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From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
April 1872
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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His analysis and explanation of the fact, observed by Charles Bell, that the eyeballs are turned upwards and inwards when consciousness begins to fail.
Asks BR to make two drawings of dogs to show expressions. Discusses expressions of hostile dog and caressing dog.
Thanks for "Literatur & Tables zur Descendenz Theorie" [check title!?] taken from his Die Darwin’sche Theorie [1871], which CD had read with gratification some time before.