620 (return) [ ‘Ceylon,’ 3rd edit. 1859, vol. ii. pp. 364, 376. I
applied to Mr. Thwaites, in Ceylon, for further information with
respect to the weeping of the elephant; and in consequence received a
letter from the Rev. Mr Glenie, who, with others, kindly observed for
me a herd of recently captured elephants. These, when irritated,
screamed violently; but it is remarkable that they never when thus
screaming contracted the muscles round the eyes. Nor did they shed
tears; and the native hunters asserted that they had never observed
elephants weeping. Nevertheless, it appears to me impossible to doubt
Sir E. Tennent’s distinct details about their weeping, supported as
they are by the positive assertion of the keeper in the Zoological
Gardens. It is certain that the two elephants in the Gardens, when they
began to trumpet loudly, invariably contracted their orbicular muscles.
I can reconcile these conflicting statements only by supposing that the
recently captured elephants in Ceylon, from being enraged or
frightened, desired to observe their persecutors, and consequently did
not contract their orbicular muscles, so that their vision might not be
impeded. Those seen weeping by Sir E. Tennent were prostrate, and had
given up the contest in despair. The elephants which trumpeted in the
Zoological Gardens at the word of command, were, of course, neither
alarmed nor enraged.]
621 (return) [ Bergeon, as quoted in the ‘Journal of Anatomy and
Physiology,’ Nov. 1871, p. 235.]
622 (return) [ See, for instance, a case given by Sir Charles Bell,
‘Philosophical Transactions,’ 1823, p. 177.]
623 (return) [ See, on these several points, Prof. Donders ‘On the
Anomalies of Accommodation and Refraction of the Eye,’ 1864, p. 573.]
624 (return) [ Quoted by Sir J. Lubbock, ‘Prehistoric Times,’ 1865, p.
458.]
701 (return) [ The above descriptive remarks are taken in part from my
own observations, but chiefly from Gratiolet (‘De la Physionomie,’ pp.
53, 337; on Sighing, 232), who has well treated this whole subject.
See, also, Huschke, ‘Mimices et Physiognomices, Fragmentum
Physiologi-cum,’ 1821, p. 21. On the dulness of the eyes, Dr. Piderit,
‘Mimik und Physiognomik,’ 1867, s. 65.]
702 (return) [ On the action of grief on the organs of respiration, see
more especially Sir C. Bell, ‘Anatomy of Expression,’ 3rd edit. 1844,
p. 151.]
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