RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [after 1868]. Abstract of Swinhoe. CUL-DAR195.4.89. 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.
"Swinhoe, Robert, 1836-77. Ornithologist and consular official in China. 1866 CD to Sclater, S had written to CD about common domestic duck of China. CCD14. 1867 CD sent S Queries about expression, which S had printed in Notes and Queries for China and Japan, 1: p. 105. F1739. 1871 Jan. 28 S visited Down House. 1876 FRS." (Paul van Helvert & John van Wyhe, Darwin: A Companion, 2021)
See: Queries about expression. In [Robert] S[winhoe], Signs of emotion amongst the Chinese. Notes and Queries on China and Japan 1 (31 August): 105.
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Swinhoe (27) says Chinese under grief or telling of death or other grief — others go into an hysterical fit of laughter —
[Expression, p. 208: "Mr. Swinhoe informs me that he has often seen the Chinese, when suffering from deep grief, burst out into hysterical fits of laughter." Darwin was citing Swinhoe to Darwin 4 August 1868, Correspondence vol. 16.]
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