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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Dn. 38: E.B. Baxter: 8/7/74 gives quotation from Virchow. CUL-DAR53.2.46. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

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Dn. 38

E.B. Baxter: 8/7/74 gives quotation from Virchow Gedachtnissrede on J. Müller:- [remainder untranscribed]

See letter from E. B. Baxter 8 July 1874. Cited in Expression 2d ed., p. 43n: "[Dr. Baxter (letter, July 8, 1874) calls attention to a statement in Virchow's 'Gedächtnissrede über Johannes Müller,' to the effect that Müller had command over the iris. Professor Beer, of Bonn, is said by Lewes ('Physical Basis of Mind,' 1877, p. 377) to have had the power of contracting or dilating the pupils at will. "Here ideas act as motors. When he thinks of a very dark space the pupil dilates, when of a very bright spot the pupil contracts."]"

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