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Sent From (Definite): James Crichton-BrowneSent To (Definite): Charles DarwinDate: 16 Apr 1873
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Quoted by Micheal Finn, 'The West Riding Lunatic Asylum and the making of the modern brain sciences in the nineteenth century', University of Leeds PhD thesis (2012).
Description:'Crichton-Browne certainly had high hopes for the work [of Ferrier], writing excitedly to Darwin in April 1873 that Ferrier 'has discovered that every convolution of the brain is in direct relation with certain groups of muscles, and controls their actions', adding that the results will 'constitute the most important advances yet made in cerebral physiology' - such results, he believed, could not fail to interest Darwin.' (144)