From James Crichton-Browne 16 February 1871
Summary
Values CD’s approbation more than that of anyone else now living.
CD’s "searching questions". Sends answers separately.
Offers his observation on morbid pigmentation of skin.
Offers photographs of abnormal features in patients – ears with bristles, women with two sets of nipples.
Encloses notes on weeping and laughter in the insane.
| Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Feb 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 312 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7484 |
From James Crichton-Browne 19 February 1871
Summary
Thanks for Descent.
Offers photo of patient with a second small milk-giving nipple on one breast, and of man with bristles on his ears, which come somewhat to a point.
| Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Feb 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 313 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7492 |
From James Crichton-Browne 29 March 1871
Summary
Sends scraps of information. Everything he has sent is unreservedly at CD’s disposal.
| Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 29 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 314 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7643 |
From James Crichton-Browne [29–31 March 1871]
Summary
On the power of concentration to influence body organs.
| Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [29–31 Mar 1871] |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 324 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7649 |
From James Crichton-Browne 3 April 1871
Summary
Sends photographs of general paralytics. Expressions of exaltation of [these?] patients do not come out well in the photographs.
Is experimenting with idiots under his care. Has been unable to produce a blush in any one of them.
| Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 53.1: A30, C134–6; DAR 161: 315 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7658 |
From James Crichton-Browne 16 April 1871
Summary
Is sending notes on blushing. Offers information on physiology and pathology of blushing.
Has sent photograph of seven imbeciles in one family.
| Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 316, 195.1: 49 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7689 |
From James Crichton-Browne 18 August 1871
Summary
Sends CD a volume of West Riding Lunatic Asylum Medical Reports [1 (1871)], which contains some observations on blushing.
| Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 18 Aug 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 317 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7910 |
