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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1867.06.08. Saw little girl on brightish day looking up to me. CUL-DAR195.4.5. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 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.

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June 8th 67. I saw little girl on brightest day looking up to me (as in former case) on Horse, with sourcilier in strong action.

My Hypoth. view agrees with this pyramidal orbicular tends to protect eyes, & sourcilier spasmodically resists them.─ In photograph is woman looking up?

[Expression, p. 191: "Lastly, I met on the road a little girl three or four years old, who had been frightened by a dog, and when I asked her what was the matter, she stopped whimpering, and her eyebrows instantly became oblique to an extraordinary degree."]

Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)