From Francis Galton 13 September 1871
Summary
Is turning to experiments with rats, "Siamesed together" for cross-circulation.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Sept 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A33–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7938 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … Is turning to experiments with rats, "Siamesed together" for cross-circulation. …
- … Francis Darwin, 7 April 1871 and n. 4). The old English or black rat is Rattus rattus ; …
- … the wild grey rat, more commonly known as …
- … the brown or Norway rat, is R. norvegicus. …
- … The common white rat is a colour morph of R. norvegicus. Henrietta Emma Darwin married …
- … better than by the cross circulation for if even 1 drop of blood per hour passes from rat …
- … to rat, a volume equal to the entire contents of the circulation of either will be …
- … a pretty complete intermingling of the bloods. All cristalloids diffuse readily from rat …
- … to rat (as poison) through the tissues, and as we know that eggs of entozoa are carried …
- … I have. Latterly, my whole heart has been in rats ;—white, old English black, & wild grey, …
From Francis Galton 21 November 1871
Summary
Asks that the rabbits CD has kept be sent to him; will continue [transfusion] experiments on rats, but using larger [surgical] connection.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Nov 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: A35–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8080 |
From Francis Galton 24 November 1871
Summary
Going to Down to see the "most curious" results.
| Author: | Francis Galton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 24 Nov 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 105: 37–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8085 |
From G. F. Ansell 8 April 1871
Summary
Anecdotes about a dog and cat evidencing "a high order of instinct".
| Author: | George Frederick Ansell |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 87: 105–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7668 |
From F. T. Köppen 25 April 1871
Summary
Sends his paper on locusts ["Die geographische Verbreitung der Wanderheuschrecke", Petermann’s Geogr. Mittheil. (1871)]. The effect of the growth of forest land on their increase; meteorological and climatic effects.
Also observations made on increase in mice as a result of increase of locusts, on whose eggs they fed, and of increase of weasels that fed on mice.
| Author: | Friedrich Theodor Köppen (Fedor Petrovich Keppen) |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 46.1: 102 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7716 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Locusts in Bessarabia caused mice & [ rats ] to increase enormously as they fed on eggs—& …
From E. B. de Fonblanque 2 April 1871
Summary
Encloses notes that illustrate apparent intelligent reasoning by a dog which tricked an adversary, and by an elephant peaceably enduring a painful operation.
| Author: | Edward Barrington de Fonblanque |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Apr 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 140 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7653 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … guardhouse. The place being infested with rats the soldiers on guard were in the habit of …
From Briton Riviere to E. M. Bonham-Carter 26 June 1871
Summary
Gives examples of dogs’ expressions produced by ear movements.
| Author: | Briton Riviere |
| Addressee: | Elinor Mary Bonham-Carter; Elinor Mary Dicey |
| Date: | 26 June 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 174 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7833 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … however intense such as that caused by—rats, game, the approach of food, &c. , has an …
From Arthur Nicols 11 March 1871
Summary
His previous account of Phascolarctos was based on notes made at the time of observation.
His report of the successful adoption of a koala infant by a cat comes from a trustworthy observer.
| Author: | Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 172: 56 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7570 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … in the pouch about the size of a large rat, well covered with hair and unattached. Seeing …
| letter | (8) |
| Galton, Francis | (3) |
| Ansell, G. F. | (1) |
| Fonblanque, E. B. de | (1) |
| Köppen, F. T. | (1) |
| Nicols, Arthur | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Bonham-Carter, E. M. | (1) |
| Dicey, E. M. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Galton, Francis | (3) |
| Ansell, G. F. | (1) |
| Bonham-Carter, E. M. | (1) |
| Dicey, E. M. | (1) |
Satire of FitzRoy's Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, by John Clunies Ross. Transcription by Katharine Anderson
Summary
[f.146r Title page] Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle Supplement / to the 2nd 3rd and Appendix Volumes of the First / Edition Written / for and in the name of the Author of those / Volumes By J.C. Ross. / Sometime Master of a…
Matches: 5 hits
- … of the sea fowl roost on branches ^of trees^ and that many rats make their nests at the top of high …
- … on to say that my friends may most readily believe that “rats make their nests on the top of coconut …
- … Specimens of each of these curiosities the man traps and the rats’ nests along with some Patagonian …
- … of which he is paid by the year. N.B. In saying that “Rats and mice swarm on these Islands” I really …
- … but if the reader has not supposed my meaning to be that “Rats and mice swarm on all the Islands …
Darwin in letters, 1868: Studying sex
Summary
The quantity of Darwin’s correspondence increased dramatically in 1868 due largely to his ever-widening research on human evolution and sexual selection.Darwin’s theory of sexual selection as applied to human descent led him to investigate aspects of the…
Matches: 1 hits
- … , ‘much depends on the actions of the female’, and of rats, John Bush observed on 30 March that …
Review: The Origin of Species
Summary
- by Asa Gray THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION (American Journal of Science and Arts, March, 1860) This book is already exciting much attention. Two American editions are announced, through which it will become familiar to many…
Darwin in letters, 1871: An emptying nest
Summary
The year 1871 was an extremely busy and productive one for Darwin, with the publication in February of his long-awaited book on human evolution, Descent of man. The other main preoccupation of the year was the preparation of his manuscript on expression.…
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- … in graphic detail how he was turning his attention to rats, and employing a surgical assistant to …
