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DCP-LETT-8861

From:
James Crichton-Browne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Apr 1873
Source of text:
DAR 161: 319
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)].

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DCP-LETT-8865

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Crichton-Browne
Date:
17 Apr [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 344
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?

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