RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of White, Gradation in man. CUL-DAR195.2.32. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 5.2022. 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-DAR195 contains materials for Darwin's book Expression of the emotions (1872) organised roughly as: DAR195.1 blushing. DAR195.2 astonishment, fear. DAR195.3 indignation, rage, screaming, etc. DAR195.4 laughter, frowning, introduction.
Charles White. 1799. An account of the regular gradation in man, and in different animals and vegetables, etc. London.
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White's Gradation in Man. p. 37. Dr Munro says in parrot iris is affected by the passions independent of light.
[Expression, p. 304: "When writers of fiction speak of the eyes being widely dilated, I presume that they refer to the eyelids. Munro's statement,25 that with parrots the iris is affected by the passions, independently of the amount of light, seems to bear on this question; but Professor Donders informs me, that he has often seen movements in the pupils of these birds which he thinks may be related to their power of accommodation to distance, in nearly the same manner as our own pupils contract when our eyes converge for near vision." Note 25: "As quoted in White's 'Gradation in Man,' p. 57. In fact page 37.]
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