DCP-LETT-6750
Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
Addressee: | Henry Maudsley |
Date: | |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 308 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6750 |
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 |
DCP-LETT-6749
Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 323c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6749 |
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 |
From James Crichton-Browne 1 June 1869
Summary
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 |
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 |
From James Crichton-Browne 15 March 1870
Summary
Thanks CD for copy of Origin.
Encloses extensive, but incomplete, notes on expression among the insane, dealing specifically with blushing and the actions of the platysma and grief muscles.
Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Mar 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 310, DAR 161: 323/2–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7134 |
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 |
From James Crichton-Browne 6 June 1870
Summary
Returns copy of Duchenne (found in cupboard) with notes [see 7221].
Sends photograph of woman patient with hair standing on end.
Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 June 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 53.1: C68; DAR 161: 311 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7220 |
From James Crichton-Browne [6 June 1870]
Summary
Comments on various figures [in Duchenne’s Mécanisme].
Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [6 June 1870] |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 323, 323/1 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7221 |
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 |
From James Crichton-Browne 16 February 1871
Summary
Values CD’s approbation more than that of anyone else now living.
CD’s "searching questions". Sends answers separately.
Offers his observation on morbid pigmentation of skin.
Offers photographs of abnormal features in patients – ears with bristles, women with two sets of nipples.
Encloses notes on weeping and laughter in the insane.
Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 312 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7484 |
From James Crichton-Browne 19 February 1871
Summary
Thanks for Descent.
Offers photo of patient with a second small milk-giving nipple on one breast, and of man with bristles on his ears, which come somewhat to a point.
Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Feb 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 313 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7492 |
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 |
From James Crichton-Browne 29 March 1871
Summary
Sends scraps of information. Everything he has sent is unreservedly at CD’s disposal.
Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Mar 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 314 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7643 |
From James Crichton-Browne [29–31 March 1871]
Summary
On the power of concentration to influence body organs.
Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [29–31 Mar 1871] |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 324 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7649 |
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