RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Dn. 91: Walker W.G 21 August 1873 / quotes passage from Gordon Cumming's Lion Hunting. CUL-DAR53.2.78. 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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W. G. Walker 21/8/73
quotes passage from Gordon Cumming's Lion Hunting shewing that the African elephant [excesses]
See letter from W. G. Walker 21 August [1873]. Correspondence vol. 21, p. 339. Cited in Expression 2d ed., p. 176n "[Gordon Cumming 'The Lion Hunter of South Africa,' 1856, p. 227) in describing the behaviour of an African elephant severely hit with rifle bullets, says that "large tears now trickled from his eyes, which he slowly shut and opened." Mr. W. G. Walker called the author's attention to this fact.]".
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