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Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, has obligingly sent me a full 

 description of two cases. He observed during some time, 

 himself unseen, a very young Dhangar woman from Nag- 

 pore, the wife of one of the gardeners, nursing her baby 

 who was at the point of death; and he distinctly saw the 

 eyebrows raised at the inner corners, the eyelids droop- 

 ing, the forehead wrinkled in the middle, the mouth 

 slightly open, with the corners much depressed. He 

 then came from behind a screen of plants and spoke to 

 the poor woman, who started, burst into a bitter flood 

 of tears, and besought him to cure her baby. The sec- 

 ond case was that of a Hindustani man, who from illness 

 and poverty was compelled to sell his favourite goat. 

 After receiving the money, he repeatedly looked at the 

 money in his hand and then at the goat, as if doubting 

 whether he would not return it. He went to the goat, 

 which was tied up ready to be led away, and the animal 

 reared up and licked his hands. His eyes then wavered 

 from side to side; his " mouth was partially closed, with 

 the corners very decidedly depressed." At last the poor 

 man seemed to make up his mind that he must part with 

 his goat, and then, as Mr. Scott saw, the eyebrows be- 

 came slightly oblique, with the characteristic puckering 

 or swelling at the inner ends, but the wrinkles on the 

 forehead were not present. The man stood thus for a 

 minute, then heaving a deep sigh, burst into tears, raised 

 up his two hands, blessed the goat, turned round, and 

 without looking again, went away. 



On the cause of the obliquity of the eyebrows under 

 suffering. — During several years no expression seemed 

 to me so utterly perplexing as this which we are here 

 considering. Why should grief or anxiety cause the 

 central fascia? alone of the frontal muscle together with 

 those round the eyes, to contract? Here we seem to 

 have a complex movement for the sole purpose of ex- 



