RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Dn. 29: Chance F / On Goose-skin. CUL-DAR53.2.37. 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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F. Chance: On Goose-skin, wh. he finds produced by hot water, but he is sure there is no erection of the small hairs of the body much less of the large ones
A woman fr/ the Caucasus whose hair stood on end without any great mental stimulance: she afterwards went mad. (cf. C. Bronne's case)
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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