RECORD: Richmond, W. B. 1915. [Recollection of Darwin on his "heavy brow"]. Manchester Evening News, (25 September): 5.
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2023. RN1
NOTE: William Blake Richmond spent time with Darwin in June 1879 in order to paint his portrait in scarlet LL.D. gown, commissioned by the Cambridge Philosophical Society, known sometimes as the red portrait, after Emma Darwin's description. Now hangs in the Department of Zoology, Cambridge. A copy in the family. See also Richmond's recollection of Darwin in F3544.
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Charles Darwin told me that he was confident that his heavy brow, his frontal sinus, had become developed during his lifetime.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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