To James Paget 18 January [1873]
Summary
JP’s note [8739] suggests reversion, but that is an easy trap. Will look to the ears of "our brethren at the Zool. Gardens".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
Date: | 18 Jan [1873] |
Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8740 |
From James Paget 16 March 1863
Summary
Sends two [unidentified] papers on inheritance of medical malformations. Suggests that besides the inheritance of specific variations, the tendency to show variations in the same organ system (stomach, nervous, etc.) may also be inherited.
Author: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Mar 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4045 |
To Horace Benge Dobell 16 February [1863]
Summary
Thanks HBD for his lectures On the germs and vestiges of disease [1861].
Thinks his reasoning that the V. M. F. ("force exhibited in the operations of life") is not a "given quantity" is satisfactory.
How far the conditions of life affect the forms of organic life puzzles CD more than any other part of his subject. Thinks he may have underrated its importance in Origin.
Asks for source of the quotation on regeneration in HBD’s work.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Horace Benge Dobell |
Date: | 16 Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | Barton L. Smith MD (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3990 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … given in Variation 2: 15. See letter from James Paget, 7 February 1863 , n. 1. CD cites …
- … 1861 , which was sent with the letter from James Paget, 7 February 1863 , and is in the …
- … from James Paget, 7 February 1863 , and letter to T. H. Huxley, [8 February 1863] , n. …
- … 1862] . CD had written to James Paget for information on supernumerary digits (see letter …
To William Bowman 10 March [1863]
Summary
Will send portion of copied manuscript [of Variation 2: 8–10] for WB to examine. Asks about inherited abnormalities of the eye.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Bowman, 1st baronet |
Date: | 10 Mar [1863] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5030 |
To James Paget 4 June [1870]
Summary
Asks to have observations made of a person retching violently, but ejecting nothing from stomach, in order to test relation between spasmodic contraction of orbicular muscles and tears. CD believes tears are caused by matter filling nostrils.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
Date: | 4 June [1870] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.5703/38) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7217 |
From James Paget 17 January 1873
Summary
Describes a patient’s ears with peculiar tufts of hair in places where he has never seen them before. Encloses sketch.
Author: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 87: 56–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8739 |
To James Paget 3 June 1881
Summary
Is honoured by, and accepts JP’s invitation for 3 August.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
Date: | 3 June 1881 |
Classmark: | Francisco Ayala (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13191 |
To James Crichton-Browne 4 March [1873]
Summary
Pleased that JC-B will review Expression.
Fears he will not be able to improve the book with JC-B’s "wonderfully curious" photographs because Murray printed such a large edition.
Would be glad to have JC-B’s notes on inheritance – "a most important subject".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 4 Mar [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 343 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8798 |
To James Paget 13 December 1880
Summary
Perhaps you would like to see a very small “tumour” on a lateral branch of the Silver Fur, caused by an Œstrum, as stated (with references) in my Power of Movement in Plants. These tumours are sometimes almost as big as a child’s head. At what age they emit the upright shoot, I do not know.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
Date: | 13 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | Paget ed. 1901, p. 409 n. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12911 |
From James Paget 3 December 1880
Summary
Thanks CD for his note and his new book [Movement in plants].
Makes him feel "we must go beyond plants for a really elemental pathology".
Wishes he knew enough about crystals to work at them.
Author: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Dec 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 174: 12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12886 |
To Annie Dowie 27 July 1875
Summary
Has previously quoted details concerning the regrowth of her amputated extra digit in Variation [2: 14–15]. The case has since been disputed, so CD, who is revising his work, asks for some fuller details.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Anne (Annie) Chambers; Anne (Annie) Dowie |
Date: | 27 July 1875 |
Classmark: | Bonhams (dealers) (13 March 2002) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10096 |
From T. F. Burgers 13 May 1875
Author: | Thomas François Burgers |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 May 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 97: C11v |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9978 |
From Lawson Tait 27 March [1876]
Author: | Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Mar [1876] |
Classmark: | DAR 178: 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10431 |
To James Paget 19 December [1858]
Summary
Asks JP to remember him if anything occurs to him "in regard to inheritance at corresponding or rather earlier ages". Sends JP a few examples for his "Chronometry of life". CD is sure he often met with striking facts but he disregarded them. "Deviations alone would have struck me."
Effects of different climates on breeding periods.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
Date: | 19 Dec [1858] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.5703/28) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5314 |
From M. J. Berkeley 13 July 1875
Summary
Fairy-rings grow because the fungal spawn radiates outwards then dies off at the centre as it becomes exhausted. The verdure of the grass depends upon the decay of the fungus supplying nitrogenous manure. Rings are formed mainly in upland pastures poor in nitrogenous matter. Gives examples of woodland fungi that form rings.
Author: | Miles Joseph Berkeley |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 July 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 175 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10062 |
To M. J. Berkeley 10 July 1875
Summary
Enquires about fairy rings.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Miles Joseph Berkeley |
Date: | 10 July 1875 |
Classmark: | The National Library of Wales (NLW St Asaph Diocesan Records SA/CR/219) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10055F |
To James Crichton-Browne 9 April [1871]
Summary
Asks JC-B to read CD’s MS on confusion of mind, which often or generally accompanies blushing.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 9 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 337 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7672 |
To James Crichton-Browne 22 May 1869
Summary
Thanks for MS observations on expression. Discusses hair standing on end in terror and rage. Asks JC-B to observe contraction of platysma myoides. "Your description of the grinning and exposure of the canine teeth under furious rage is excellent. I presume that you would not object to my quoting it." Asks about contraction of "grief muscles". Comments on blushing. Offers to send book by G. B. A. Duchenne [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine (1862)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 22 May 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 327 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6755 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … in Expression , p. 317. See also letter to James Paget, 29 April [1869] . CD refers to …
- … Correspondence vol. 15, letter from James Paget, 9 July 1867 , and this volume, letter …
- … to James Paget, 29 April [1869] . See Correspondence vol. 16, letter from F. F. Geach, …
- … James Paget , who had offered to make observations on the condition of the platysma in patients under the influence of chloroform (see Correspondence vol. 15, letter …
- … James Paget, 9 July 1867 ). In Expression CD cited both Langstaff and William Ogle on this point, but CD only approached Ogle later, in 1870 (see Expression , p. 301, and letter …
From James Paget 25 July 1879
Summary
Regrets that he cannot send the promised volume [Biographie médicale, 7 vols, 1820–5, biographical appendix to Dictionaire des sciences medicales]. Offers to have his son make an abstract of the biography [of Erasmus Darwin].
Author: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 July 1879 |
Classmark: | DAR 99: 194 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12172 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … No letter to James Paget on this subject has been found, but see the letter to James …
- … James Paget. 1.1 I am ... copy 1.5] ‘(vol. [‘3’ del ] III. 1821’ ink 2.1 What ... you— 2.4] ‘W. S. Dallas 21. Alma Sq r . N.W’ ink above ‘Dr Ernst Krause Friedenstrasse 10— II. Berlin’ ink del pencil Top of letter : ‘ …
To James Paget 29 January [1873?]
Summary
Has heard from Ashwin Conway Newman of Guy’s Hospital of a case of a child without any prepuce whose father was a renegade, uncircumcised Jew, but whose ancestors had all been Jews. Newman thinks this a good case of inheritance with reversion. JP’s letter [missing] now shows how rash such a conclusion would be.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
Date: | 29 Jan [1873?] |
Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.5703/37) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8752 |
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