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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.
The expression of shame in ancients, Milton, the Bible, and in poor girls under Miss Gourlay’s charge.
Miss Gourlay reports case of girl at the Lock Hospital who covered her face in shame.
On origin of hand-shaking.
Expression: derivation of the term "brown study".
A fragment that may contain information for Expression.
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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.
William Clowes [printer for J. Murray] estimates that Variation will come to a first volume of 648 pages and a second volume of 624 pages – which is too much for volumes the same size as Origin. Murray proposes a larger size.
Thanks CD for his kindness and hopes one day to return it.
Finds more and more observations fall in with CD’s theory but still finds it difficult to account for the sudden leaps in the fossil record and to explain why some organisms first appear as such high forms.
On Haeckel’s Generelle Morphologie; the logical argument for natural selection is still incomplete. THH jumps over the hole by an act of faith.
Criticisms and comments on JDH’s "Insular floras" in Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1867): 6].