Wednesday 28 May 2014 at 16:54
Stassa Edwards explores Charles Darwin's photography collection, which included almost forty portraits of mental patients given to him by the neurologist James Crichton-Browne. The study of these photographs, and the related correspondence between the two men, would prove instrumental in the development of The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872), Darwin's study on the evolution of emotions.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/05/28/the-naturalist-and-the-neurologist-on-charles-darwin-and-james-crichton-browne/