RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Stein 1873 / Draft of Expression. CUL-DAR60.2.15. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2022. 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).

The text of this manuscript in the hand of Henrietta Emma Darwin corresponds in part to Expression, p. 90.


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p. 73 — in 1873 Herr Stein of Berlin — opened under high temp suddenly shut when inner surface touched remains shut from 24°-36° —

p. 74 had [sketch?] with insects enclosed — open like a mussel-shell

― small [illeg] of any kinds — larvæ of Diptera & Homoptera — only chitin coats left

p. 76 many leaves empty day before caught Cypris by next day

76 4-6 spikes

76 middle concave part 3 layers of cells

Glands colourless.

Filament [illeg] double or 4 rows of cells

77 2-armed like magnets or intruder

77 excrement

77 se caught [illeg] swim about for long time

78 bubbles of air — speak doubtfully about closing of 2 concave sides as soon as digestion begin.

p 80— rootless.

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If any sound depends on its place in what is technically called a 'scale,' the same sound producing absolutely difficult effects in the lar according as it is heard in connection with one or another series of sounds.

It is on this relative association of the sounds that all the essentially characteristic effects which are summed up in the phrase 'musical expression,' depend. But why certain associations of sounds have such & such effects is a problem which yet remains to be solved. These effects must, of course indeed, in some way or other, be connected with the well known arithmetical relations between the rates of vibration of the sounds forming a musical scale, & it is perhaps possible—but this is merely a suggestion that the greater or less mechanical facility with which the vibrating apparatus of the human larynx passes from one state of vibration to


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