RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Emma Darwin. n.d. Q11 Fear. CUL-DAR186.12. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 10.2023. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR186 contains answers to 'Queries about expression' summarised by subject (contempt, good spirits, indignation etc.) and geographically (Australia, Brazil, China etc.), research leading to Expression (F1142).
Darwin's 'Queries about expression' can be found in Darwin 1867, [Darwin] 1867, Darwin 1868, CUL-DAR53.1.B2, CUL-DAR186.1 and Expression pp. 15-16. On these see Freeman and Gautrey 1972, 1975 and Freeman 1977. A later version is in Darwin 1874. See van Wyhe, Comparison of three versions of Darwin's 'Queries about expression'.
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Q11
Fear
Australia
(1) yes breathing & excrement Wilson — dogs & as I have seen with monkeys.
2 Dyson Lacy yes &c (see good)
3 Taplin yes (no)
4 Brough Smyth yes paleness (showed in one occasion when much frightened & angry a complexion, as nearly apparently to white can call paleness, as can well be conceived in the case of a very black man.)
[Expression, pp. 294-5.]
5 Hagenauer yes (in extreme cases will lift both arms over head.
6 Lang thinks so yes—
7 Lane yes ? thinks so
8 Bunnett yes
India
13 H. Erskine thinks so
14 J. Scott yes — greatly exaggerated
Ceylon
16 Glenie yes exaggerated
S. Africa
18. Barber yes — pale — other hand it said of K. & T [Kafir and Fingoes] that they were pale with rage or fear
[Expression, p. 295.]
Abyssinia
23 Speedy yes
26 Kafir — yes — {The shaking of the body is much experienced & the eyes widely open
China
27 Swinhoe yes
N. America
30 Matthew yes —
31 Rottrock yes exactly so
Malay—
34 Geach — yes — becomes white & shake.
35 — Do
36 Dyaks restless moving of Hand.— quivering of eyelids & dry mouth saliva faints – gushing.
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