The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals research; simple psychology experiments on the recognition of emotions with his friends and family; and (borrowing from Duchenne de Boulogne, a physician at the Salpêtrière) the use of photographs in his presentation of scientific information. Publisher John Murray warned Darwin that including the photographs would "poke a hole in the profits" of the book; and "The Expression of the Emotions" is an important landmark in the history of book illustration. Background: In the weeks before Queen Victoria's coronation in 1838, Charles Darwin sought medical advice on his mysterious physical symptoms, and then travelled to Scotland for a period of rest
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals West Yorkshire. Darwin corresponded intensively with James Crichton-Browne, the son of the phrenologist William A. F. Browne and now the medical director of the Wakefield asylum. At the time, Crichton-Browne was preparing his extremely influential "West Riding Lunatic Asylum Medical Reports", and Darwin remarked to him that "The Expression" "should be called by Darwin "and" Browne". Darwin also drew on his personal experience of the symptoms of bereavement and studied the text of Henry Maudsley's 1870 Gulstonian lectures on "Body and Mind". He considered other approaches to the study of emotions, including their depiction in the arts – discussed by