RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Dn. 79: Norman H.G.H. / suggests that purring is primarily connected with. CUL-DAR53.2.73f. 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.
73f
Dn. 79
H.G.H. Norman:
suggests that purring is primarily connected with the sight of food & the "watering of the mouth" these occassions his reason being that his act while puring on his knee wet his bossum.
(M. suggests that the cat may have been suckling: she had a cat that used to suck & purr & much as then [illeg]) may know purring is not [illeg] on vested w. the secretion of saliva.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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