RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Duchenne, Mécanisme de la Physionomie Humaine. CUL-DAR189.136. 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-DAR189 contains material for Darwin's book Expression of the emotions.


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Duchenne Plates

(1) Old man naturally laughing unintelligible & recognized by everyone — gah. zgy. & muscles of lower eyelid causes corner of mouth rather too forcibly retracted & eyelids somehow oddly affected so that everyone did not recognise, or added some epithet to laughter; 21 guessed answered right, but some added "wicked joke", or half-amazed "grieving laughter", "trying to laugh" — These answered quite wrong, one saying "bewilderment" & another "pain." —

(2) W Surprise. eyebrow raised by yawn, mouth opened, (see what Duchenne says in each case — 22 answered right.

by word answered or under surprise or astonishment some adding "disgust", "horror" — "woeful" or "pain" to the above words.— 2 answered wrong one saying did not know what was meant & other other saying terror which is not far away.

[In margin:] This had better be engraved

(4) Eyebrows oblique & case of lips depressed — Eyebrow not equally appeared corner of mouth too much depressed — (see what Duchenne says)

6 answered depiction, misery or grief

5 contempt with epithets such as angry

4 — disgust

2 bodily pain (this near mark)

9 either could give no answered or answered wildly such as "submission" "intense amazement" "incredulity"

(6) Half-face with mouth as if beginning to cry — eyebrow oblique.—

14 answered nearly right sorrow, distress, grief — "misery first giving way. "Endurance of pain"

9 could give no answer — or said "cunning leer" "jocund" looking at intense light" "measuring a distance with the eye."

On crying old man does not fail of proper laugh so like Rejlander said shape?


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