RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Henrietta Darwin?. n.d. Q4 Deep Thought. CUL-DAR186.5. 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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Australia
(Q 4) Deep Thought
2. Dyson Lacy yes both frown & wrinkle lower eyelids when treating [2 words illeg] or referring to part
3 Taplin by Muller yes
4 Brough Smith — eyelids closed, upper eyelids quivered when trying to remember a forgotten word
5 Hagenauer yes frowns
7. Lang — yes
8. Bunnett — yes (Abs from Lubbock)
9. Bulmer yes undated in the same way as we do does frown
India
10 Hagenauer
13 H. Erskine yes — partly see original in neither not 10
14 J. Scott yes partly — answering movement of eye brows horizontal movement of chin contraction around the eye.?
19? Weale? yes partly forehead wrinkled
Central Africa
22. Weale hand on mouth &c
23 Speedy yes also bite lip snap thumb & fingers
26 Kafir Chief yes same time puts hand to chin
China
27 Swinhoe yes precisely the same
N. America
30 Matthews yes & hand to mouth or face
31 Rottrock yes
Malay
34 Geach several g men observed yes see original — wrinkles skin lower eyelids
35 Do Do- [do] [do]
36 Dvyaks Contract muscle about face, look solemn
(2) Australian wrinkle lower eyelid, when reflecting on some long past event
(34) Malays do do observed in several cases
(13) In Neva in condition do not frown
22 & 26 Kafirs Hand to mouth or chin
30 N. America Hand to mouth or face
No man who habitually [illeg] much decision to resolution even had a gaping mouth
[Expression, pp. 228-30. Pin holes]
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