From James Paget [1873]
Summary
"Sir William Gull has just brought me the enclosed quotations from Chaucer, as illustrations of the closure of the eyes in effort. [In "The Nun’s priest’s tale" in Canterbury tales the fox tricks Chanticleer into crowing, whereupon Chanticleer closes his eyes to make the effort (and gets seized by the fox).] He begs me to send them to you.
I have lately seen a terrier who very distinctly frowns during mental excitement – not always with anger, but often, I think, with anxiety, as in expecting food."
Author: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1873] |
Classmark: | S. Paget ed. 1901, p. 408 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8713 |
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 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 |
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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