320 'DESCENT OF MAN 'EXPRESSION. [1871. 



" The tips to the ears have become quite celebrated. One 

 reviewer (' Nature ') says they ought to be called, as I sug- 

 gested in joke, Angulus Woolnerianus* A German is very 

 proud to find that he has the tips well developed, and I 

 believe will send me a photograph of his ears."] 



C. Darwin to John Brodie Innes.\ 



Down, May 29 [1871]. 



MY DEAR INNES, I have been very glad to receive your 

 pleasant letter, for to tell you the truth, I have sometimes 

 wondered whether you would not think me an outcast and a 

 reprobate after the publication of my last book [' Descent *].J 

 I do not wonder at all at your not agreeing with me, for a 

 good many professed naturalists do not. Yet when I see in 

 how extraordinary a manner the judgment of naturalists has 

 changed since I published the ' Origin,' I feel convinced that 

 there will be in ten years quite as much unanimity about man, 

 as far as his corporeal frame is concerned. . . . 



[The following letters addressed to Dr. Ogle deal with 

 the progress of the work on expression.] 



Down, March 12 [1871]. 



MY DEAR DR. OGLE, I have received both your letters, 

 and they tell me all that I wanted to know in the clearest 

 possible way, as, indeed, all your letters have ever done. I 

 thank you cordially. I will give the case of the murderer tt 

 in my hobby-horse essay on expression. I fear that the Eu- 

 stachian tube question must have cost you a deal of labour ; 



* ' Nature ' Ap. 6, 1871. The term suggested is Angulus Woolnerii. 

 \ Rev. J. Brodie Innes, of Milton Brodie, formerly Vicar of Down. 



\ In a former letter of my father's to Mr. Innes : " We often differed, 

 but you are one of those rare mortals from whom one can differ and yet 

 feel no shade of animosity, and that is a thing which I should feel very 

 proud of, if any one could say it of me." 



* ' Expression of the Emotions,' p. 294. The arrest of a murderer, as 

 witnessed by Dr. Ogle in a hospital. 



