Has read a review of Expression and finds CD’s explanation of "antithesis" [see Expression, p. 50] unsatisfactory. Proposes a theory of upward lines expressing energy and downward lines expressing the reverse.
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Has read a review of Expression and finds CD’s explanation of "antithesis" [see Expression, p. 50] unsatisfactory. Proposes a theory of upward lines expressing energy and downward lines expressing the reverse.
Acknowledges presentation copy [of Expression], which is not to be found in the market.
Interested in CD’s opinion of her article ["The consciousness of dogs", Q. Rev. 133 (1872): 419–51].
Hopes she may see CD at Queen Anne St [home of E. A. Darwin].
Lydekker describes an inherited characteristic of drooping eyelids.