From William Bowman 3 September [1869]
Summary
Asks whether he may come with F. C. Donders to visit CD.
| Author: | William Bowman, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Sept [1869] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6877 |
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- … From William Bowman 3 September [1869] …
- … Society (Mss.B.D25. ) William Bowman, 1st baronet Hampstead 3 Sept [1869] Charles Robert …
- … 1869 was 7 September. CD had asked Bowman about a passage in Charles Bell’s Anatomy and philosophy of expression as connected with the fine arts ( Bell 1844 ) in his letter of 2 April [1868] ( Correspondence vol. 16). CD had previously asked Bowman for observations pertaining to Bell’s account of weeping (see Correspondence vol. 15, letter to William …
To William Bowman 16 May [1869–81]
Summary
"I shall not be in London on Monday, but I have written to my Brother to ask him to aid you"
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bowman, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 16 May [1869-81] |
| Classmark: | George Houle Autographs (dealer) (Catalogue 61, March 1992) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13781 |
From F. C. Donders 12 November 1869
Summary
CD’s questions [on expression] are more difficult than he thought and have led him further afield than he expected. If CD is not hurried, he promises less imperfect answers in six weeks. Thanks CD for drawing his attention to a really important question from different points of view.
| Author: | Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Nov 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 223 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6983 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 September [1869]
Summary
F. C. Donders has been to lunch – a good "Darwinian"!
JDH’s speech of resignation [as BAAS President] at Exeter was charming [Rep. BAAS (1869)]. JDH should have been an ambassador.
Has received Indian census.
Is unusually well.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 10 Sept [1869] |
| Classmark: | DAR 94: 151–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6886 |
From William Bowman 26 January 1871
Summary
Reports his observations on the concurrence of orbicular muscle spasms, engorgement of eyes with blood, and formation of tears.
| Author: | William Bowman, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 26 Jan 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 269 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7456 |
To Frans Cornelis Donders 6 September 1869
Summary
Asks about Charles Bell’s statement concerning contraction of eye muscles. Asks whether such contraction is related to secretion of tears.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders |
| Date: | 6 Sept 1869 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6878 |
From William Bowman 16 November 1872
Summary
Thanks CD for Expression, comments on it.
Describes celebration of F. C. Donders’ 25th year as professor at Utrecht.
| Author: | William Bowman, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Nov 1872 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8628 |
From F. C. Donders 1 April 1872
Summary
His analysis and explanation of the fact, observed by Charles Bell, that the eyeballs are turned upwards and inwards when consciousness begins to fail.
| Author: | Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Apr 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 230 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8266 |
To F. C. Donders 8 April 1872
Summary
Thanks FCD for information, which will make him "strike out a good deal".
Has received German pamphlet.
Will read work by John Soelberg Wells [? A treatise on the diseases of the eye (1869, 1870)].
Discusses his work on expression.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders |
| Date: | 8 Apr 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 413 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8279 |
To William Bowman 19 April [1872]
Summary
Returns borrowed book. Is surprised that any of us have eyes "seeing what a frightful number of horrid diseases the eye is liable to".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bowman, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 19 Apr [1872] |
| Classmark: | Sir John Paget Bowman (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8292 |
From F. C. Donders 16 June 1871
Summary
Replies to CD’s queries on movement of the eyes in meditation, and changes in the iris in rage and terror [see Expression, pp. 229, 304].
| Author: | Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 June 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 229 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7821 |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Bowman, William | (3) |
| Donders, F. C. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Bowman, William | (2) |
| Donders, F. C. | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Bowman, William | (5) |
| Donders, F. C. | (5) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
