From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1867–72]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 48
Summary:
An extract from Macrobius’ Saturnalia dealing with blushing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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An extract from Macrobius’ Saturnalia dealing with blushing.
Has marked a page from Adam Bede which may be relevant to CD’s work on expression.
Jessie [Wedgwood] says driving in sun made one of her eyes water.
Sends extract from Charma [Essai sur le langage (1846)] on the origin of nodding and shaking the head [See Expression, p. 273 n. 17].
Extract from Seneca’s letters establishes that hiding the face in shame was not a classical gesture.
On origin of hand-shaking.
Expression: derivation of the term "brown study".
A fragment that may contain information for Expression.
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.