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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Wedgwood, H. E.
Date:
1867
Source of text:
DAR 219.10: 25
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Darwin Family Letters
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Jessie [Wedgwood] says driving in sun made one of her eyes water.
Expresses his support for new books being sold with the pages cut.
Describes his experiments in fertilising Oncidium flexuosum and comparison with Notylia.
Has been examining Catasetum.
Encloses seeds of two species of Gesneria and describes hairs in the seed capsule. Hairs in other plants seem to have a different function.
Starting tomorrow for a botanical excursion on the Continent.
On origin of hand-shaking.
Expression: derivation of the term "brown study".
A fragment that may contain information for Expression.
Miss Gourlay reports case of girl at the Lock Hospital who covered her face in shame.
The expression of shame in ancients, Milton, the Bible, and in poor girls under Miss Gourlay’s charge.
Sends extract from Charma [Essai sur le langage (1846)] on the origin of nodding and shaking the head [See Expression, p. 273 n. 17].
An extract from Macrobius’ Saturnalia dealing with blushing.
Extract from Seneca’s letters establishes that hiding the face in shame was not a classical gesture.
Has marked a page from Adam Bede which may be relevant to CD’s work on expression.
Avoid forcing metric system on India. Hopes Commission will adopt 'geometrical system of [A. T.] Kupffer and others. Winter weather. Family health and news. Alexander S. Herschel gave lecture at Leeds; reports many Japanese students at Glasgow. JH predicts that industrious Japanese may supplant Europe and America in next century. Details of JH's humorous plan for 'telegraphic personal transfer' [teleportation] to accelerate travel. Rash of bombings by mail in London. Attacks on police.
Acknowledges receipt of paper on nebulae.
On a correction to a report [JH's obituary on William Whewell].