RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Marshall, On the brain of a bushwoman; and on the brains of two idiots of European descent. CUL-DAR195.4.80. 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.
John Marshall. 1864. On the brain of a bushwoman; and on the brains of two idiots of European descent. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London 154: 501-58.
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Do. P. 526 Expression Idiots, extremely idiotic "laughed & cried much" Marshall
Phil. Transact 1864 P. 3
[Expression, p. 156: "Persons born idiotic likewise weep;9 but it is said that this is not the case with cretins.
9 See, for instance, Mr. Marshall's account of an idiot in Philosoph. Transact. 1864, p. 526."]
& Lubbock savages cry
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