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 |
To James Crichton-Browne 7 April [1871]
Summary
Thanks for information about blushing of idiots.
Case of pregnant woman "truly wonderful".
Thanks for photographs.
Has found London photographer, O. G. Rejlander, with passion for photographing expression.
Received information about iris of eye from F. C. Donders; shows contraction and dilation of pupil is very complex.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 7 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 336 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7666 |
To James Crichton-Browne 9 April [1871]
Summary
Asks JC-B to read CD’s MS on confusion of mind, which often or generally accompanies blushing.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 9 Apr [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 337 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7672 |
To James Crichton-Browne 12 April 1871
Summary
Discusses blushing. CD believes confusion of mind alone can account for it. Sends MS for JC-B’s comments and corrections.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 12 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 338 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7678 |
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 |
To James Crichton-Browne 18 April 1871
Summary
Comments on notes by JC-B on relation between blushing and mental disturbance. Asks for further information about blushing. "The single pencil line down this MS is my mark that I have used it once."
Thanks for "dreadful photo of the imbeciles".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 18 Apr 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 339; DAR 185: 39 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7698 |
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 |
To James Crichton-Browne 2 November [1871]
Summary
Asks JC-B to observe whether platysma muscle contracts during rigor or shivering fit.
Is just recommencing his essay on expression.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 2 Nov [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 340 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8047 |
To James Crichton-Browne 26 March [1871]
Summary
Has sent photographs of insane woman to be engraved. Assumes JC-B has no objection.
Is making immense use of JC-B’s MS. The book ought to be described as "by Darwin & Browne".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 26 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 341 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8253 |
To James Crichton-Browne 28 February [1873]
Summary
Hopes JC-B thinks that CD has properly acknowledged his debt in Expression.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 28 Feb [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 342 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8792 |
From James Crichton-Browne 2 March 1873
Summary
Thanks for Expression. Will write paper on it in next [July] West Riding Asylum Medical Report.
Sends photos of lunatics;
will send notes corroborative of CD’s views, including some on "hereditarily transmitted movements".
Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 318 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8795 |
To James Crichton-Browne 4 March [1873]
Summary
Pleased that JC-B will review Expression.
Fears he will not be able to improve the book with JC-B’s "wonderfully curious" photographs because Murray printed such a large edition.
Would be glad to have JC-B’s notes on inheritance – "a most important subject".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 4 Mar [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 343 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8798 |
From James Crichton-Browne 16 April 1873
Summary
Sends 15 studies in expression, acted by his wife.
Describes David Ferrier’s experiments on electrical brain stimulation of animals; these show direct relation between convolutions of the brain and groups of muscles [West Riding Asylum Med. Rep. (July 1873)].
Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Apr 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 319 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8861 |
To James Crichton-Browne 17 April [1873]
Summary
Photographs sent by JC-B show great power of acting.
David Ferrier’s researches sound wonderful. Does he believe that he excites an idea and this leads to the movement, or that he acts directly on the motor nerves?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 17 Apr [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 344 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8865 |
To James Crichton-Browne 7 September [1873]
Summary
Thanks JC-B for volume of Asylum reports and paper on epilepsy. Seems clear from reports that physiology of brain will soon be largely understood.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 7 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 345 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9045 |
From James Crichton-Browne 12 September 1873
Summary
Thanks CD for his praise of West Riding Asylum Medical Reports.
Hopes CD will come to Asylum if he attends BAAS meeting at Bradford.
Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Sept 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 320 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9053 |
From James Crichton-Browne 27 December 1873
Summary
Is about to undertake an intensive investigation with other scientists of general paralysis in its various aspects. Would appreciate CD’s comments on photographs he would submit.
Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Dec 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 321 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9190 |
To James Crichton-Browne 30 December 1873
Summary
Will do what he can to help JC-B with his work on expression of patients suffering from general paralysis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 30 Dec 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 346 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9193 |
To James Crichton-Browne 5 January 1874
Summary
Requests help for George Darwin’s investigation of marriages of first cousins. Seeks to determine proportion of first-cousin offspring among the insane, deaf and dumb, blind, etc.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 5 Jan 1874 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 347 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9227 |
To James Crichton-Browne 8 October 1874
Summary
Thanks JC-B for copy of Medical Reports of the West Riding Lunatic Asylum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 8 Oct 1874 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.451) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9668 |
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