Sends extract from Charma [Essai sur le langage (1846)] on the origin of nodding and shaking the head [See Expression, p. 273 n. 17].
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Sends extract from Charma [Essai sur le langage (1846)] on the origin of nodding and shaking the head [See Expression, p. 273 n. 17].
Jessie [Wedgwood] says driving in sun made one of her eyes water.
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.
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.