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To William Bowman   8 April [1872]1

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

Ap. 8th

My dear Bowman

Donders in describing the movement of the eye in meditation refers me to “Sölberg Wells, Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye 1869;” & says that perhaps you could lend it me.—2 If you could spare it for only 2 or 3 days it would be quite sufficient. Can you do so? I suppose that it is a large book, as he refers to p. 548.; so, it had better be sent (if you can send it) to

C. Darwin

Orpington Station

Kent

South Eastern

Railway.

Believe me, my dear Bowman | Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from F. C. Donders, 1 April 1872.
2
See letter from F. C. Donders, 1 April 1872 and n. 3. CD refers to John Soelberg Wells and Wells 1869.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

1.5 (if…it)]parentheses over commas
1.9 South…Railway. 1.10]added

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8280,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8280