RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1871-1872]. Draft of Expression, published, p. 152. CUL-DAR57.7r. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 1.2023. 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 the draft corresponds to Expression, p. 152.
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soon as the screaming fit actually began, the muscles round the eyes were strongly contracted, and the mouth widely opened in the manner above described; so that at this early age the features assumed the same form as at a more advanced age.
Dr. Piderit (*6A) lays great stress on the contraction of certain natal muscles which draw down the nose and narrow the nostrils, as eminently characteristic of a crying expression. The depressores anguli oris are, as we have just seen, usually at the same time contracted, and they indirectly tend, as Dr. Duchenne has shown, to act in this same manner on the
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