RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1871.02.28. Dr Ogle remarked that resignation is often shewn by hands being folded. CUL-DAR195.3.3. 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.

"Ogle, William, 1827-1912. Physician and naturalist. Superintendent of Statistics to the Registrar General. 1868 Mar. 6 O to CD on Hippocrates's views on pangenesis. [1874-78?] CD to O, CD had called on him in London, invites him to lunch. 1878 O translated A. Kerner Flowers and their unbidden guests. It contains a prefatory letter by CD (Shorter publications, F1318). 1879-95 O visited Down House. Nineteenth Century, 106, 1929, pp. 118-23. 1879 Nov. 22 ED recorded in her diary "Ogles came". 1881 Aug. 15 they left. 1882 Feb. 22 O sent CD his translation of Aristotle on the parts of animals. 1882 O was on "Personal Friends invited" list for CD's funeral. 1883 Aug. 18-20 they stayed with ED. 1884 onwards O was addressed as Dr Ogles. They visited ED every two years or so, with the last record in 1895 Jul. 13-15." (Paul van Helvert & John van Wyhe, Darwin: A Companion, 2021)

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Feb 28. 1871. Dr Ogle remarked that resignation is often shewn by hands being folded one over the other in front, & he has repeatedly seen this gesture with persons not very fearful (but resigned) about to undergo some severe operation under chloroform.

[Expression, p. 271: "I should not have thought this little gesture worth even a passing notice, had not Dr. W. Ogle remarked to me that he had two or three times observed it in patients who were preparing for operations under chloroform. They exhibited no great fear, but seemed to declare by this posture of their hands, that they had made up their minds, and were resigned to the inevitable."]

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Shrugging

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