RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Dn. 83: Newspaper cutting no date or name made by C.D. CUL-DAR53.2.73j. 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.
73j
Dn. 83
Newspaper cutting no date or name made by C.D
Part of a cuneiform acct. of the deluge in wh. gods in terror are described as ... like dogs, with tails hidden, crouched over'
[In a cuneiform inscription, nearly 5000 years old, giving an account of the Deluge, there is a description of the terror of the gods at the tempest. And "the gods like dogs with tails hidden couched down."This note is taken from a newspaper clipping, preserved by Charles Darwin, but without date or title.]
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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