From Charles Langstaff [after 22? April 1868]1
I have noticed the pinched look of the nose both in crying & when an individual has a cold.2 The columna is also drawn downwards which increases this look, & no doubt such an expression is greatly due to the action of the depressor alae nasi; but in addition the act of snuffling, which is constant in crying & very frequent in a cold, brings the pressure of the air on the Alæ of the nose compresses & drives them inwards towards the columna.
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Expression: The expression of the emotions in man and animals. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1872.
Summary
Describes the appearance of the nose in crying.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7413
- From
- Charles Langstaff
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- DAR 170: 1
- Physical description
- Amem 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7413,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7413.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 16