To Abraham Dee Bartlett 5 January [1870]1
Down. | Beckenham | Kent. S.E.
Jan 5th
My dear Sir
Many thanks about Limulus.2 I am going to ask another favour, but I do not want to trouble you to answer it by letter.
When the Callithrix sciureus screams violently does it wrinkle up the skin round the eyes like a Baby always does? When thus screaming do the eyes become suffused with moisture? Will you ask Sutton to observe carefully.— Could you make it scream without hurting it much?3
I shd. be truly obliged some time for this information, when in Spring I come to Gardens,—or Sutton cd. write to me.—4
Your’s very faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Expression: The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872.
Summary
Thanks ADB for Limulus.
Does Callithrix sciureus wrinkle the skin around its eyes when it screams? Do the eyes become suffused with moisture?
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7072
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Abraham Dee Bartlett
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7072,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7072.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18
