To Erasmus Wilson 29 March [1871]
Summary
Wonders whether correspondent might possibly know of any cases in which intense concentration of the mind on one portion of the skin produces dilation of the capillary vessels and hence reddening of the area.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William James Erasmus (Erasmus) Wilson |
| Date: | 29 Mar [1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 99 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7639 |
From Dyson Lacy [before 13 August 1868]
Summary
Answers to CD’s queries on expression in natives of Queensland, Australia.
[Forwarded by Edward Wilson to CD.]
| Author: | Dyson Lacy |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 13 Aug 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 186: 49 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6374 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … October 1868 ; that part of Wilson’s letter was later excised and pasted to the bottom of …
- … from R. B. Smyth, 13 August 1868 , and the letter from Edward Wilson, 14 October 1868 . …
- … Wilson’s letter indicates that Lacy’s answers were received, and presumably sent, before …
- … relative, Lacy (see Correspondence vol. 15, letter from Edward Wilson, 8 November 1867 , …
- … and this volume, letter from Edward Wilson, 14 October 1868 ). For the history of CD’s …
- … a city close to the coast. Wilson gave Lacy’s name and address in his letter to CD of 14 …
- … Utcherie Top of letter : ‘Observations made by a relative of E. Wilson on natives several …
To Edward Wilson 20 February [1868]
Summary
Thanks EW for information [on expression] about Australians.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Wilson |
| Date: | 20 Feb [1868] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/9) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5899 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … the relationship between this letter and the letter from Edward Wilson, 19 February 1868 . …
- … See letter from Edward Wilson, 19 February 1868 . CD had enclosed a copy of his queries on …
- … Correspondence vol. 15; see also letter from Samuel Wilson to Ferdinand von Mueller, 12 …
- … S.E. Feb 20 Dear Mr Wilson Many thanks for y r note. I rec d a letter the other day from D …
From Edward Wilson 14 October 1868
Summary
Encloses further replies from Australia to CD’s queries on expression. Wilson’s letter to CD enclosed the letter from Smyth with its enclosures (see S6314).
| Author: | Edward Wilson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Oct 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 125, DAR 186: 49 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6419 |
To W. W. Reade 21 May [1868]
Summary
Thanks WWR for information in answer to his queries concerning expression.
Asks when horns first appear among a breed of sheep on the Guinea coast,
and for information about the gorilla and chimpanzee.
Asks about African ideas of beauty.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Winwood Reade |
| Date: | 21 May [1868] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.371) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6754 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 1867] , letter from Ferdinand von Mueller, 8 October 1867 , letter from Edward Wilson, 8 …
- … November 1867 , letter from Samuel Wilson to Ferdinand von Mueller, 12 …
- … November 1867 , and this volume, letter from Edward Wilson, 19 February 1868 . He had also …
- … letter from David Forbes, 26 March 1868 ). In Expression , p. 19, CD wrote that, thanks to Edward Wilson , …
From Richard Spruce to J. D. Hooker 29 July 1864
Summary
Gives an extract from his notes on Marcgravia umbellata, an epiphyte that might be the plant that Bates refers to as matador.
| Author: | Richard Spruce |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 29 July 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 157.2: 111 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4577 |
To Erasmus Wilson [26 January – 3 February 1871]
Summary
Seeks information and observations on the contraction of the orbicular muscles as a consequence of skin irritation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William James Erasmus (Erasmus) Wilson |
| Date: | [26 Jan – 3 Feb 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 91 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7459 |
From Edward Wilson 19 February 1868
Summary
Encloses letter (not found) from Australian friend responding to CD’s queries on expression.
| Author: | Edward Wilson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 123 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5896 |
From John Lubbock 9 December [1867]
Summary
Introduction of humble-bees into Australia.
| Author: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Dec [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 170: 60 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5716 |
To A. S. Wilson 13 February 1880
Summary
Thanks for articles by ASW in Gardeners’ Chronicle [see 12404]. Agrees with him.
Asks about growth of rootlets from knobs caused by fungus on roots of Cruciferae.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
| Date: | 13 Feb 1880 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 370 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12478 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Wilson’s letter and the copies of Gardener’ Chronicle have not been found. Wilson sent the …
- … of the latter variety ( Wilson 1879 , p. 654, and Wilson 1880 , p. 173; see letter from A. …
- … S. Wilson, 5 January 1880 ). In his letter of [after 2 June 1879] ( Correspondence vol. …
- … vol. 26, letter from G. M. Asher, 14 February 1878 ). Asher had disputed Wilson’s view …
From Erasmus Wilson 3 February 1871
Summary
On irritation of cutaneous nerves exciting responses in unconnected skin muscles.
| Author: | William James Erasmus (Erasmus) Wilson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Feb 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 130 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7475 |
From Edward Wilson 22 February 1868
Summary
CD’s queries on expression.
Sends photo of a native Australian.
| Author: | Edward Wilson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Feb 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 124 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5916 |
To A. S. Wilson 16 March [1878]
Summary
Thanks for second lot of Aegilops seed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
| Date: | 16 Mar [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 363 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11427 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … 1878 , and more with his letter of 14 March 1878 . Wilson had observed that only seeds …
- … by the relationship between this letter and the letter from A. S. Wilson, 14 March 1878 . …
- … floret of a spikelet would germinate (see letter from A. S. Wilson, 14 March 1878 ). …
- … Wilson had sent a box of seeds of Aegilops ovata (a synonym of A. geniculata , ovate goatgrass) with his letter …
From B. O’Neile Wilson 22 December 1861
Summary
Variation in instincts among domestic animals.
| Author: | Benjamin O’Neile Wilson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 22 Dec 1861 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 118 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3348 |
From Robert Brough Smyth 13 August 1868
Summary
Relates some observations on expression among Australian aboriginals and encloses answers to CD’s queries from other observers. [These include letters and observations from: J. A. Hagenauer, 28 May 1868; Archibald Grahame Lang, 17 June 1868; H. B. Lane, 24 June 1868; Templeton Bunnett, 25 June 1868; J. Bulmer (1868). (See introduction to Expression.)]
| Author: | Robert Brough Smyth |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Aug 1868 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 205–12 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6314 |
To A. S. Wilson 9 August [1878]
Summary
Responds to ASW’s information about Erythraea
and about wasps on Scrophularia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
| Date: | 9 Aug [1878] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 7339: 57) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11646 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … 24 July 1862] . In his letter of 6 August 1878 , Wilson noted that he had observed wasps …
- … this letter and the letter from A. S. Wilson, 6 August 1878 . See letter from A. …
- … Wilson, 6 August 1878 and nn. 1 and 3. Erythraea is a synonym of Centaurium (the genus of centaury). For CD’s earlier questions about the forms of Erythraea centaurium , see Correspondence vol. 10, letter …
To A. S. Wilson 30 December [1879]
Summary
Package of wheat varieties from Russia lost in transit.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
| Date: | 30 Dec [1879] |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 368 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12377 |
From A. S. Wilson 27 February 1879
Summary
Sends results of the first year’s experiments with the Russian wheat varieties sent by CD [see 11483].
| Author: | Alexander Stephen Wilson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 114 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11906 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … known as Kubanka and Saxonka) with his letter to Wilson of 24 April 1878 ( Correspondence …
- … letter in such a way as to give all the information I thought required. I am | Dear Sir, | yours very truly, | A. Stephen Wilson. …
- … Wilson 1879 ); a proof copy is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. In wheat, the leaf rust known as red or brown rust is caused by a fungus, Puccinia recondita ; it produces orange-brown uredina (fruiting bodies), primarily on the upper surface of the leaves, which cause early loss of affected leaves. Georg Michael Asher had arranged for the Russian wheat seeds to be sent to CD; see Correspondence vol. 26, letter …
From Francis Darwin [after 28 February 1878]
Summary
He is getting some of the Heracleum seed sowed and the Cycas planted. Does CD want anything done with the potatoes sent by James Torbitt?
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [after 28 Feb 1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 46 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11754G |
To Ferdinand von Mueller 28 February [1867]
Summary
Sends his [MS] questionnaire on expression and asks FvM’s help in obtaining answers based on observations of aborigines living in the interior of Australia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich (Ferdinand) von Mueller |
| Date: | 28 Feb [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: A33–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5424 |
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