RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Dn. 16: Face, want of symmetry. CUL-DAR53.2.25. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 9.2025. 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-DAR53.2 contains drafts, notes & clippings for Darwin's book The expression of the emotions (1872) and notes to correct a further edition.
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Dn. 16:
Face, want of symmetry
[annotation by Darwin:] Interesting
Tracing of a portrait of J. Buryara (sent by T. Lauder Brunton)
Also copy of a picture by the Virgin by Rubens & three other letters from Brunton. He refers to the greater asymmetry of the brain in intelligence as compared w. idiots, &c &c
(A want of sym. has recently been detected in the Venus of [illeg] J.W.)Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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