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To William Bowman 30 July [1867]
Summary
Plans to write a book on expression. Questions WB on orbicular muscle in screaming infant and function of muscle contractions in looking at a distant object.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bowman, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 30 July [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 8 (EH 8820 6060) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5589 |
To William Bowman 7 August [1867]
Summary
Thanks for reply to queries. Spectroscope an instance of unimagined glorious prospects of science.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Bowman, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 7 Aug [1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 261.11: 10 (EH 88206062) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5601 |
From William Bowman 5 August 1867
Summary
Supposes that infants’ eyes bulge and become engorged with blood during fits of sneezing or screaming, but doubts Charles Bell’s experiment of opening and observing eyes turn from pale to red [Anatomy and philosophy of expression (1844)].
Discusses the action of the eye when looking at distant objects.
| Author: | William Bowman, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Aug 1867 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 267 (fragile) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5596 |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Bowman, William | (1) |
Addressee
| Bowman, William | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
