From Richard Lydekker [after 26 November 1872]1
[Mr. R. Lydekker (letter n. d.) communicates a remarkable instance of an inherited peculiarity producing a characteristic drooping of the eyelids. The peculiarity is the paralysis, or, more probably, the absence, of the levator palpebræ.2 It first showed itself in a woman, Mrs. A.; she had three children, one of whom, B., inherited the peculiarity. B. had four children, all of whom were affected with the hereditary droop; one of these, a daughter, married and had two children, of whom the second showed the peculiarity, but on one side only.]
Footnotes
Bibliography
Expression: The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872.
Freeman, Richard Broke. 1977. The works of Charles Darwin: an annotated bibliographical handlist. 2d edition. Folkestone, Kent: William Dawson & Sons. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, Shoe String Press.
Summary
Lydekker describes an inherited characteristic of drooping eyelids.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8649F
- From
- Richard Lydekker
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Source of text
- , p. 36, n.8
- Physical description
- inc
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8649F,” accessed on 4 June 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8649F.xml