RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Dn. 92: Ogle W 9 November / p. 241 note. CUL-DAR53.2.79. 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.


79

Dn. 92

Dr W. Ogle 9/11

1) dilating nostrils after machechtomy: to this p. 241 note

C.D. seems to have meant to add:-
[The way this is written suggests that it was written after Darwin's death, in posthumous preparation for the second edition of Expression.]

Cited in Expression 2d ed., p. 362n "[Dr. W. Ogle contributes a similar instance of a London physician who suffers from neuralgia over the eyebrow; and with each attack a patch of hair in the brow whitens, to recover its colour again when the attack is past.]".


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