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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 |
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 |
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| letter | (2) |
Author
| Crichton-Browne, James | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
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| Crichton-Browne, James | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
