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The Charles Darwin Collection
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Anecdotal comments on various sections of Descent:
Red Indians erecting their ears;
reasoning in a pet antelope, stag deer, and mongoose;
use of foot as prehensile organ by carpenters in India.
Thanks for £50 contribution to Edward Cresy’s memorial. £1000 collected so far for an annuity for Mrs Cresy.
If FD gets the chance, will he observe whether the platysma contracts in a shivering fit? Wants much to know whether the platysma of frightened patients contracts before chloroform is given.
Gives CD permission to use photographs of expressions.
Asks WO to act out the sudden discovery of a dreadful object and to observe whether his platysma contracts. CD has found in his notes that it is never contracted in cases of severe dyspnoea [Expression, p. 301].