RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Parsons, Human physiognomy, etc. CUL-DAR195.4.100. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 6.2022. 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.
James Parsons. 1746. Human physiognomy explain'd in the Crounian lectures on the muscular motion for the year MDCCXLVI. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London 44.
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J. Parsons in appendix Phil. Transact 1846, p. 41 gives a list of 40 old authors (par des Lebrun.) who have written on expression!
(Foot-note to when I give Lebrun)
[Expression, Introduction: "he older treatises,1 which I have consulted, have been of little or no service to me.
1 J. Parsons, in his paper in the Appendix to the 'Philosophical Transactions' for 1746, p. 41, gives a list of forty-one old authors who have written on Expression."]
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