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From G. H. Darwin   6 February 1874

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Finds statistical evidence that cousin marriages are at least three times as frequent in "our rank" as in the lower.

Author:  George Howard Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  6 Feb 1874
Classmark:  DAR 210.2: 33
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9268

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  • James Crichton-Browne of the West Riding Asylum in Wakefield, Yorkshire, for information on the number of inmates who were children of first-cousin marriage ( G.  H.  Darwin 1875a , pp.  165–9). Richard Strachey . Francis Galton . George refers to Elinor Colvile (the wife

From James Crichton-Browne   1 June 1869

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Discusses the bristling of hair in melancholics and the action of the platysma myoides muscle and the grief muscles in the insane.

Author:  James Crichton-Browne
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  1 June 1869
Classmark:  DAR 161: 309
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6769

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  • James Crichton-Browne, 22 May 1869 . Crichton-Browne had received a copy of CD’s printed Queries about expression (see first enclosure to letter from Henry Maudsley, 20 May 1869 , and Appendix VI). CD’s initial letter of enquiry to Maudsley has not been found. CD recounted Crichton-Brownes observations about the erection of the hair in Expression , pp.  295–7; he quoted the remark about ‘Mrs H. ’ Mrs H.  and the ‘medical man’ and his wife
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