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James Crichton-Browne

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James Crichton-Browne became one of the most distinguished psychiatrists of the late nineteenth-century, but the letters he exchanged with Charles Darwin as the young and overworked superintendent of the largest mental asylum in England, are almost the…

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  • James Crichton-Browne became one of the most distinguished psychiatrists of the …
  • … Royal Medical Society on Darwin in 1861.  James Crichton-Browne became Medical …

List of correspondents

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Below is a list of Darwin's correspondents with the number of letters for each one. Click on a name to see the letters Darwin exchanged with that correspondent.    "A child of God" (1) Abberley,…

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  • … G. S. (1) Anderson, James (1) …
  • … Frederic (1) Bateman, James (1) …
  • … Buckley, A. B. (21) Buckman, James (2) …
  • … Burn, Robert (1) Burningham, James (1) …
  • … C., W. S. (1) Caird, James (9) …
  • … Carter, R. B. (2) Cartmell, James (1) …
  • … H. (1) Crichton-Browne, James (40) …
  • … Crocq, Jean (1) Croll, James (16) …
  • … Dawson, J. W. (1) Dawson, James (2) …
  • … Dickie, George (3) Dickson, James (1) …
  • … Dixon, E. S. (2) Dixon, James (2) …
  • … Druitt, Thomas (3) Drummond, James (a) (5) …
  • … Edwards, [– ?] (1) Egan, James (2) …
  • … Fraser, George (3) Fraser, James (1) …
  • … Archibald (12) Geikie, James (13) …
  • … Society of London (18) Gibb, James (1) …
  • … J. M. (2) Grant, James (3) Grant, R. …
  • … Heckel, Édouard (7) Hector, James (1) …
  • … Hewitt, Edward (4) Heywood, James (1) …
  • … Rowland (b) (1) Hilton, James (1) …
  • … Humphry, G. M. (1) Hunt, James (a) (1) …
  • … Jacobson, Miss (1) James, Constantin (1) …
  • … Lambert, C. S. (1) Lamont, James (4) …
  • … William (1) Martineau, James (1) …
  • … Murdoch, G. B. (2) Murie, James (6) …

Darwin in letters, 1869: Forward on all fronts

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At the start of 1869, Darwin was hard at work making changes and additions for a fifth edition of  Origin. He may have resented the interruption to his work on sexual selection and human evolution, but he spent forty-six days on the task. Much of the…

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  • … and letter from A. R. Wallace, 30 January 1869 ). James Croll, ice ages, and the age of …
  • … result of correspondence between Darwin and the geologist James Croll. In the previous year, Croll …
  • … is strengthened by the facts in distribution’ ( letter to James Croll, 31 January [1869] ). Darwin …
  • … period  before  the Cambrian formation’ ( letter to James Croll,  31 January [1869] ). Croll …
  • … by, but don’t think we have got that yet’ ( letter from James Croll, 4 February 1869 ).  …
  • … from Asa Gray and J. L. Gray, 8 and 9 May [1869] ). James Crichton-Browne and mental …
  • … in medical asylums. Maudsley forwarded Darwin’s queries to James Crichton-Browne, the director of …

Darwin in letters, 1871: An emptying nest

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The year 1871 was an extremely busy and productive one for Darwin, with the publication in February of his long-awaited book on human evolution, Descent of man. The other main preoccupation of the year was the preparation of his manuscript on expression.…

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  • … sending their compliments and praise. The asylum director James Crichton-Browne described the book …
  • … his lunch and dinner in order to read it ( letter from James Crichton-Browne, 19 February 1871 ). …
  • … could be produced by an operation of the mind. He wrote to James Crichton-Browne on 28 March to …
  • … would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek’’‘ ( letter to James Crichton-Browne, 18 April 1871 ). …

Darwin in letters,1870: Human evolution

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The year 1870 is aptly summarised by the brief entry Darwin made in his journal: ‘The whole of the year at work on the Descent of Man & Selection in relation to Sex’.  Descent was the culmination of over three decades of observations and reflections on…

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  • … Darwin lent Duchenne’s album to the asylum director James Crichton-Browne, who had become one of …
  • … but it did not confirm Duchenne’s findings ( letter from James Crichton-Browne, 15 March 1870 ). …
  • … crying badly; but I fear he will not succeed’ ( letter to James Crichton-Browne, 8 June [1870] ). …

Darwin's in letters, 1873: Animal or vegetable?

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Having laboured for nearly five years on human evolution, sexual selection, and the expression of emotions, Darwin was able to devote 1873 almost exclusively to his beloved plants. He resumed work on the digestive powers of sundews and Venus fly traps, and…

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  • … leading contributors to  Expression , the psychiatrist James Crichton-Browne, wrote to Darwin …
  • … orbital one produces snapping of the jaws” ( letter from James Crichton-Browne, 16 April 1873 ). …
  • … that illustrated the physiognomy of the disease ( letter to James Crichton-Browne, 30 December 1873 …
  • … ants when Darwin forwarded a letter from the mining engineer James Duncan Hague, who had observed a …

Darwin’s queries on expression

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When Darwin resumed systematic research on emotions around 1866, he began to collect observations more widely and composed a list of queries on human expression. A number of handwritten copies were sent out in 1867 (see, for example, letter to Fritz Muller…

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  • … children Crichton-Browne, James 20 May …
  • … nodding Crichton-Browne, James 19 May 1869 …
  • …   Crichton-Browne, James 15 March 1870 …
  • … blushing Crichton-Browne, James 18 March …
  • … blushing Crichton-Browne, James 3 April …
  • … June 1872] New University Club, St. James's Street, S.W., London, …
  • … England   Paget, James 9 July 1867 …
  • … 3 Sept 1870 Conservative Club, St James' St, London, England …
  • … Theodore Stack, James West 4 Dec 1867 …

Wakefield, England

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Terror and exhaltation

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  • James Crichton-Browne sends observations of expression in his patients at the …

Experimenting with emotions

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Darwin’s interest in emotions can be traced as far back as the Beagle voyage. He was fascinated by the sounds and gestures of the peoples of Tierra del Fuego. On his return, he started recording observations in a set of notebooks, later labelled '…

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  • … authenticity. Darwin described the verification process to James Crichton-Browne, who used …
  • … all agree in their answer, I trust him’ ( letter to James Crichton Browne, 8 June 1870 ). The …

The expression of emotions

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Darwin’s work on emotional expression, from notes in his Beagle diary and observations of his own children, to questionnaires, and experiments with photographs, was an integral part of his broad research on human evolution. It provided one of the main…

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  • … by mental patients were provided by the asylum director, James Crichton-Browne. Numerous friends and …
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