From:
Charles Langstaff
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 22? Apr 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 1
Summary:
Describes the appearance of the nose in crying.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Showing 1–2 of 2 items
The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Describes the appearance of the nose in crying.
Contraction of platysma occurs during surgery under chloroform from touch of knife, independently of fear.