To James Crichton-Browne 22 December 1875
Summary
Thanks for 5th volume of the West Riding Asylum Medical Reports.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 22 Dec 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 348 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10319 |
To James Crichton-Browne 22 May 1869
Summary
Thanks for MS observations on expression. Discusses hair standing on end in terror and rage. Asks JC-B to observe contraction of platysma myoides. "Your description of the grinning and exposure of the canine teeth under furious rage is excellent. I presume that you would not object to my quoting it." Asks about contraction of "grief muscles". Comments on blushing. Offers to send book by G. B. A. Duchenne [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine (1862)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 22 May 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 327 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6755 |
To James Crichton-Browne 8 June 1869
Summary
Thanks for information about expression.
Comments on JC-B’s photographs of insane people.
Sends copy of Duchenne [see 6755].
Asks for further information about platysma, his bête noire for a year or two.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 8 June 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 328 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6779 |
To James Crichton-Browne 31 January [1870]
Summary
Asks JC-B to return copy of Duchenne [Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine (1862)] and sends some notes "as your former notes were of such extreme interest to me".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 31 Jan [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 329 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7089 |
To James Crichton-Browne 18 March 1870
Summary
JC-B’s essays are the fullest CD has received. His observations on blushing closely agree with James Paget’s. Platysma and horror: Duchenne’s statement doubtful.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 18 Mar 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 330 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7142 |
To James Crichton-Browne 2 April [1870]
Summary
Copy of Duchenne [see 7089] has not arrived; CD is concerned that it may be lost.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 2 Apr [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 331 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7160 |
To James Crichton-Browne 8 June [1870]
Summary
Duchenne [Mécanisme] has arrived. Has been testing the photographs with 20 or 30 persons; when all or nearly all agree with Duchenne, CD trusts him. Not one understood the "contracted pyramidal of the nose". CD does not think the so-called muscle of lasciviousness worth exhibiting.
His MS [of Descent] is so large he may print only what he has, and make a second volume of what he is now writing on expression.
Discusses photographs he would like to have: baby screaming, person in paroxysm of fear.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 8 June [1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 332 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7224 |
To James Crichton-Browne 8 February 1871
Summary
Will send copy of Descent.
Comments on JC-B’s MS on expression among insane. Asks about weeping in insane men. Do idiots laugh when pleased?
Thanks for photographs of insane. Asks for additional photographs.
Comments on Henry Maudsley [Body and mind (1870)].
Pointed ears in the insane.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 8 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 333 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7478 |
To James Crichton-Browne 20 February [1871]
Summary
JC-B’s MS most useful.
P. Gratiolet’s observations on contraction and dilation of pupils of eye of a person in extreme terror. Has JC-B ever observed this? Expression has been his hobby-horse for 30 years.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 20 Feb [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 334 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7499 |
To James Crichton-Browne 28 March [1871]
Summary
Asks whether capillary circulation is ever influenced by the mind’s being directed intently to any part of the body.
Has JC-B ever seen idiots blush? JC-B’s MS on blushing is capital.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Crichton-Browne |
Date: | 28 Mar [1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 335 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7635 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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