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.
Miss Gourlay reports case of girl at the Lock Hospital who covered her face in shame.
The expression of shame in ancients, Milton, the Bible, and in poor girls under Miss Gourlay’s charge.
On origin of hand-shaking.
Expression: derivation of the term "brown study".
A fragment that may contain information for Expression.
Expresses his support for new books being sold with the pages cut.
Has decided to accept papers treating of new researches. These will be inserted prominently in journal [Quarterly Journal of Science]. Would be happy to hear from JH.
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.
Sends a correction for the ninth edition of JH's Outlines Astr.
Acknowledges receipt of paper on nebulae.
On a correction to a report [JH's obituary on William Whewell].
Avoid forcing metric system on India. Hopes Commission will adopt 'geometrical system of [A. T.] Kupffer and others. Winter weather. Family health and news. Alexander S. Herschel gave lecture at Leeds; reports many Japanese students at Glasgow. JH predicts that industrious Japanese may supplant Europe and America in next century. Details of JH's humorous plan for 'telegraphic personal transfer' [teleportation] to accelerate travel. Rash of bombings by mail in London. Attacks on police.
Discusses displaying solar autographs to the best advantage. Invites JH's son Alexander to read his meteor paper at the Cambridge Philosophical Society.
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.
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