RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1871-1872]. Draft of Expression, Chapter 6, folio 6. CUL-DAR56.65r. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 2.2023. 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 volumes CUL-DAR 54-61 contain material for Darwin's book Insectivorous plants (1875).
Draft is in the hand of Ebenezer Norman with corrections by Darwin. The text of this draft corresponds to Expression, pp. 151-2.
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upper lip are often the first to contract; and this may perhaps be due to their older children not having so strong a tendency to scream loudly, with widely open & to keep their mouths widely open; whilst the more or less contracted muscles round the eyes act on the upper lip; so that the above-named depressor muscles are not brought into such strong action.
With one of my own infants, from his eighth day and for some time afterwards, I often observed that the first sign of a screaming fit, when it could be observed coming on rather gradually, was a little frown, owing to the contraction of the corrugators of the supercilli brows; the capillaries of the naked head and face be= [text obscured by tape]
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