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From:
James Crichton-Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 312
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Crichton-Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 313
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Crichton-Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 314
Summary:

Sends scraps of information. Everything he has sent is unreservedly at CD’s disposal.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Crichton-Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29–31 Mar 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 324
Summary:

On the power of concentration to influence body organs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Crichton-Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 53.1: A30, C134–6; DAR 161: 315
Summary:

Sends photographs of general paralytics. Expressions of exaltation of [these?] patients do not come out well in the photographs.

Is experimenting with idiots under his care. Has been unable to produce a blush in any one of them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Crichton-Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 316, 195.1: 49
Summary:

Is sending notes on blushing. Offers information on physiology and pathology of blushing.

Has sent photograph of seven imbeciles in one family.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Crichton-Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Aug 1871
Source of text:
DAR 161: 317
Summary:

Sends CD a volume of West Riding Lunatic Asylum Medical Reports [1 (1871)], which contains some observations on blushing.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project