Ojasti, Juhani. 1996. Wildlife utilization in Latin America: current situation and prospects for sustainable management. FAO Conservation Guide 25. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations.
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- … management. FAO Conservation Guide 25. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organisation of the …
Darwin, Francis. 1876e. On the glandular bodies on Acacia sphærocephala and Cecropia peltata serving as food for ants. With an appendix on the nectar-glands of the common brake fern, Pteris aquilina. [Read 1 June 1876.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 15 (1877): 398–409.
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- … sphærocephala and Cecropia peltata serving as food for ants. With an appendix on the …
Boonman, Joseph G. and Mikhalev, Sergey S. 2005. The Russian steppe. In Grasslands of the world, edited by J. M. Suttie et al. Plant production and protection series no. 34. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
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- … production and protection series no. 34. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the …
Kirby, William and Spence, William. 1865. An introduction to entomology; or, elements of the natural history of insects … of their metamorphoses, food, strategems, habitations, societies, motions, noises, hybernation, instinct, etc. etc. 8th edition. London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
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- … of insects … of their metamorphoses, food, strategems, habitations, societies, motions, …
From T. N. Staley 20 February 1874
Summary
General observations on the native Hawaiian population.
| Author: | Thomas Nettleship Staley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 89: 191–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9307 |
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- … of bark, in fact a sort of paper). Their food was saltfish, a small species of fish eaten …
- … in my last. Now I cannot say as regards food this has ever altered to any great extent. …
- … The bulk of the people still live on this food. Those who are better off will eat beef & …
- … d . however say on the whole as regards food there has not been change enough to account …
- … with the customs & ideas on the clothing, food & habits of life of the white man resulted. …
From R. W. Griffiths December 1877
Summary
A sheep-breeder friend has found that he can produce twins and triplets in his flock by "a sudden supply of improved feeding stuff" at time of conception. This would appear to remove the objection CD refers to in Descent that animals supplied with an excess of food become sterile.
| Author: | Richard William Griffiths |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | Dec 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 227 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11263 |
To A. B. Buckley 16 August [1880]
Summary
Believes A. S. Packard is in error on some points. Refers to his own observations on slave-making ants in Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Arabella Burton Buckley |
| Date: | 16 Aug [1880] |
| Classmark: | University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center (Joseph Halle Schaffner collection, box 1, folder 2) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12689 |
From Anthony Rich 1 July 1879
Summary
Starlings seem to share their food. Are they communists as they struggle for their existence?
Describes movement of a caterpillar.
| Author: | Anthony Rich |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 July 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 176: 136 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12130 |
From John Goodsir 27 August [1863]
Summary
Has found no Sarcina on the slides of fluid [see 4272] and nothing referable to the food. Will repeat examination if vomiting recurs.
| Author: | John Goodsir |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Aug [1863] |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 74 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4278 |
From Allen Stoneham 11 January 1877
Summary
Has read CD’s note on the scarcity of holly berries ["Holly berries" (1877), Collected papers 2: 189–90] resulting from the scarcity of bees. Believes the shortage of bees resulted from the wet year 1875, which led to a very poor honey harvest.
| Author: | Allen Stoneham |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 Jan 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 259 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10778 |
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- … to a neighbour at Shortlands, which was devoid of food, had the bees, while the snow was …
- … on the ground, out in search of food although the sky was sunless. — From Dec r . …
- … bees until April but either my supplies of food were insufficient or the inhabitants were …
- … through the winter by liberal supplies of food. — I believe my experience has been the …
From B. J. Sulivan 23 February 1874
Summary
The Bishop of Falkland says the Fuegian natives’ health does not suffer through increased civilisation. Relates the Bishop’s observations on the state of Tierra del Fuego and its populace.
| Author: | Bartholomew James Sulivan |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 177: 301 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9311 |
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- … to enjoy as good health as others: perhaps the more regular food with bread and potatoes …
- … compared with the precarious food, especially in winter, in the savage state, may make …
- … changing from an open air life and plenty of food through the chase, to the less healthy …
- … may have arisen from the very different food during two long voyages. There is no doubt …
From James Paget [1873]
Summary
"Sir William Gull has just brought me the enclosed quotations from Chaucer, as illustrations of the closure of the eyes in effort. [In "The Nun’s priest’s tale" in Canterbury tales the fox tricks Chanticleer into crowing, whereupon Chanticleer closes his eyes to make the effort (and gets seized by the fox).] He begs me to send them to you.
I have lately seen a terrier who very distinctly frowns during mental excitement – not always with anger, but often, I think, with anxiety, as in expecting food."
| Author: | James Paget, 1st baronet |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1873] |
| Classmark: | S. Paget ed. 1901, p. 408 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8713 |
To Henry Johnson 2 May [1872]
Summary
Thanks for notes on worm-castings. Amount of ammonia surprises CD. David Forbes asserts that published analysis of carbon in vegetable matter valueless. Suspects that worms search for food and do not blindly swallow earth.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Johnson |
| Date: | 2 May [1872] |
| Classmark: | Torquay Museum Society (AR470) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8306 |
From J. D. Hooker 15 July 1874
Summary
Asks what can be the meaning of appendages to tips of leaflets of enclosed Acacia or Mimosa.
Is at fibrin today.
Michael Foster suggests coagulation of protoplasm may be diseased, not digestive, symptom.
F. M. Balfour is at Kew today.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 July 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 206–7 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9548 |
To A. R. Wallace 9 July [1873]
Summary
Forwards photograph, sent by [J. L. G.] Krefft, of a chrysalis attached to its food-plant; the chrysalis has adjusted its colour remarkably.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 9 July [1873] |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350 Box 1 Wallace MSS) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8970 |
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- … Krefft, of a chrysalis attached to its food-plant; the chrysalis has adjusted its colour …
From G. B. A. Duchenne 25 March 1871
Summary
Gives CD permission to use photographs of expressions.
| Author: | Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Mar 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 243 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7623 |
From A. F. Boardman 8 January 1871
Summary
More speculations [see 5811] on the evolutionary development of man, relating progress to the consumption of better food and the availability of moist air.
| Author: | Alexander F. Boardman |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Jan 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 230 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7431 |
From A. S. von Mansfelde 17 January 1876
Summary
Proposes an unorthodox theory of generation that explains sex determination and atavism.
| Author: | Alexander Siedschlag von Mansfelde |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Jan 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 180: 15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10361 |
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- … but the preparation and transmission of food, and if the offspring takes upon itself any …
- … active individual would, feeds upon this food, the only material which is congenial to its …
- … its capacity to partake of its natural food, and via versa, The greater therefore the …
- … natural consequence of this partaking of food is a growth of the ovum and its subdivision …
- … to the Uterine wall and commences to draw food from that source (The freely moving …
Hassall, A. H. (1817–94)
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- … Known for his work on public health and food safety. ODNB . Bibliography ODNB : Oxford …
To William Ogle 16 December [1878]
Summary
Thanks WO for advice and assistance for his son, Horace.
Has read Kerner’s book [see 11666]; finds the translation "as clear as daylight" but fears it is too good for the English public who like "very washy food".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Ogle |
| Date: | 16 Dec [1878] |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 203 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11797 |
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Alfred Russel Wallace’s essay on varieties
Summary
The original manuscript about varieties that Wallace composed on the island of Gilolo and sent to Darwin from the neighbouring island of Ternate (Brooks 1984) has not been found. It was sent to Darwin as an enclosure in a letter (itself missing), and was…
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- … that of their infant offspring. The possibility of procuring food during the least favourable …
- … supposing them not to die either by violence or want of food. Yet at this rate how tremendous would …
- … broods are superfluous. On the average all above one become food for hawks and kites, wild cats and …
- … much less plentiful? The explanation is not difficult. The food most congenial to this species, and …
- … of the district it inhabits, and as soon as the supply of food begins to fail in one place is able …
- … shows us that the procuring a constant supply of wholesome food is almost the sole condition …
- … peculiar circumstances so strikingly combined. Either their food is more liable to failure, or they …
- … in offspring, they can never increase beyond the supply of food in the least favourable seasons. …
- … deficient in a constant and abundant supply of wholesome food. Those whose organization does not …
- … sparrow is more abundant than the redbreast, because its food is more constant and plentiful,—seeds …
- … than others, generally the contrary; but because their food never fails, the sea-shores and river …
- … The only intelligible answer is, that their supply of food is more precarious. It appears evident, …
- … one species does so, some others requiring the same kind of food must diminish in proportion. The …
- … in health and vigour—those who are best able to obtain food regularly, and avoid their numerous …
- … those which are best adapted to obtain a regular supply of food, and to defend themselves against …
- … are the least capable of counteracting the vicissitudes of food, supply, &c., must diminish in …
- … stationary, being kept down by a periodical deficiency of food, and other checks ; and, 2nd, that …
- … rendering it more difficult to procure a regular supply of food and to provide for their personal …
- … organs, would more or less affect their mode of procuring food or the range of country which they …
- … be affected in its powers of procuring a regular supply of food; and in both cases the result must …
- … follow as surely as old age, intemperance, or scarcity of food produce an increased mortality. In …
- … has to search, and often to labour, for every mouthful of food—to exercise sight, hearing, and smell …
- … exercise. The domestic animal, on the other hand, has food provided for it, is sheltered, and often …
- … strengthened by exercise, and must even slightly modify the food, the habits, and the whole economy …
- … proportioned to each other as to be best adapted to procure food and secure safety,—that in which by …
- … shorter-necked companions, and on the first scarcity of food were thereby enabled to outlive them . …
Journal of researches
Summary
Within two months of the Beagle’s arrival back in England in October 1836, Darwin, although busy with distributing his specimens among specialists for description, and more interested in working on his geological research, turned his mind to the task of…
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- … Owen thought it ‘ as full of good original wholesome food as an egg ’; William Henry Fitton …
Darwin's notes for his physician, 1865
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On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London publisher who had studied medicine in London and Paris in the early 1840s, visited Down to consult with Darwin about his ill health. In 1863 Chapman started to treat…
Wearing his knowledge lightly: From Fritz Müller, 5 April 1878
Summary
Darwin received letters from so many people and wrote so many fascinating letters himself, that it’s hard to choose from many letters that stand out, but one of this editor’s favourites, that always brings a smile, is a letter from Fritz Müller written 5…
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- … caterpillars from eggs of butterflies and to find suitable food plants for different species. Based …
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…
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- … tinder domestication is somehow connected with excess of food. He regards the unknown cause as …
- … of udder, stands of course in obvious relation to supply of food. Really, we no more know the …
- … Nature bright with gladness, we often see superabundance of food; we do not see, or we forget, that …
- … beasts of prey; we do not always bear in mind that, though food may be now superabundant, it is not …
- … in the world.’—(p. 68.) ‘The amount of food gives the extreme limit to which each …
- … but, in so far as climate chiefly acts in reducing food, it brings on the most severe struggle …
- … or of distinct species, which subsist on the same kind of food, Even when climate, for instance …
- … from enemies or from competitors for the same place and food; and if these enemies or competitors be …
- … ponds of fresh water. Farmers find that they can raise most food by a rotation of plants belonging …
- … that season of the year when the wolf is hardest pressed for food. I can under such circumstances …
Essay: Design versus necessity
Summary
—by Asa Gray DESIGN VERSUS NECESSITY.—DISCUSSION BETWEEN TWO READERS OF DARWIN’S TREATISE ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES, UPON ITS NATURAL THEOLOGY. (American Journal of Science and Arts, September, 1860) D.T.—Is Darwin’s theory atheistic or pantheistic…
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Plant or animal? (Or: Don’t try this at home!)
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Darwin is famous for showing that humans are just another animal, but, in his later years in particular, his real passion was something even more ambitious: to show that there are no hard-and-fast boundaries between animals and plants. In 1875 Darwin…
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- … on the streets of London.* As a subject it had everything: food, murder, and fatal attraction. …
Darwin and barnacles
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In a letter to Henslow in March 1835 Darwin remarked that he had done ‘very little’ in zoology; the ‘only two novelties’ he added, almost as an afterthought, were a new mollusc and a ‘genus in the family Balanidæ’ – a barnacle – but it was an oddity. Who,…
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- … three pairs of cirri – frond-like limbs used for gathering food – instead of six, and, observing its …
Syms Covington
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When Charles Darwin embarked on the Beagle voyage in 1831, Syms Covington was ‘fiddler & boy to Poop-cabin’. Covington kept an illustrated journal of his observations and experiences on the voyage, noting wildlife, landscapes, buildings and people and,…
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- … wildlife, landscapes, buildings and people and, frequently, food. After teaching Covington to …
Vivisection: draft petition
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The Petition of Humbly Sheweth That your petitioners are persons engaged in the study of the Biological Sciences [‘& their application to medicine’ del]. That the art of preventing & curing disease is based upon a knowledge of the nature …
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- … to kill’ del ] *the killing of [ interl ] animals for food and their employment [ above del …
George Keen
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George Keen (1794–1884) was born in England. He had arrived in Buenos Aires by 1820, making him one of the earliest settlers from Britain. In 1821 he married Mary Yates (1802/3–72), the sister of John, William and Elizabeth Yates, another family of early…
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- … salted and dispatched to Brazil and Cuba as ‘tasajo’, food for slaves. However, this trade was in …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
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- … Wilde in Dublin University Magazine early month of 1854 on food of Irish. ( Pig ) [Wilde] 1854] …
- … Cage birds: their natural history, management, habits, food, diseases, treatment, breeding, and …
- … true law of population shewn to be connected with the food of the people . London. [Other eds.] …
- … situation, nature of country, population, nature of food, and way of life on the disposition and …
- … 119: 20a ——. 1852. Report on substances used as food. In Exhibition of the works of …
- … 119: 10a [Wilde, William Robert Wills]. 1854. The food of the Irish. Chapter 1: the potato. …
Abstract of Darwin’s theory
Summary
There are two extant versions of the abstract of Darwin’s theory of natural selection. One was sent to Asa Gray on 5 September 1857, enclosed with a letter of the same date (see Correspondence vol. 6, letter to Asa Gray, 5 September [1857] and enclosure).…
Benjamin Renshaw
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How much like a monkey is a person? Did our ancestors really swing from trees? Are we descended from apes? By the 1870s, questions like these were on the tip of everyone’s tongue, even though Darwin himself never posed the problem of human evolution in…
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- … is very shy, but is easily allured by the sight & smell of food; she speaks only in inarticulate …
Thomas Rivers
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Rivers and Darwin exchanged around 30 letters, most in 1863 when Darwin was hard at work on the manuscript of Variation of plants and animals under domestication, the lengthy and detailed sequel to Origin of species. Rivers, an experienced plant breeder…
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- … near a large nursery & your mind would find abundance of food”, Rivers wrote ( [3 February 1863 …
Essay: Evolutionary teleology
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—by Asa Gray EVOLUTIONARY TELEOLOGY When Cuvier spoke of the ‘combination of organs in such order that they may be in consistence with the part which the animal has to play in Nature,’ his opponent, Geoffroy St.-Hilaire, rejoined, ‘I know nothing of…
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- … grade. Granting that quite possibly the capture of flies for food by Dionaea and the sundews may …
- … species among each other for the ground they occupy, or the food they seek, will bring out and …
- … on the other, by the direct difference in the supply of food and moisture, light and heat. Here the …
British Association meeting 1860
Summary
Several letters refer to events at the British Association for the Advancement of Science held in Oxford, 26 June – 3 July 1860. Darwin had planned to attend the meeting but in the end was unable to. The most famous incident of the meeting was the verbal…
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- … of playing with a hammer; but although he liked oysters as food, he never could teach him to break …
Darwin in Conversation exhibition
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Meet Charles Darwin as you have never met him before. Come to our exhibition at Cambridge University Library, running from 9 July to 3 December 2022, and discover a fascinating series of interwoven conversations with Darwin's many hundreds of…
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- … 9 July – 3 December 2022 Milstein Exhibition Centre, Cambridge University …
New material added to the American edition of Origin
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A ‘revised and augmented’ American edition of Origin came on the market in July 1860, and was the only authorised edition available in the US until 1873. It incorporated many of the changes Darwin made to the second English edition, but still contained…
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- … structures in accordance with external circumstances, as food, the nature of the habitat and the …
Darwin and Design
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At the beginning of the nineteenth century in Britain, religion and the sciences were generally thought to be in harmony. The study of God’s word in the Bible, and of his works in nature, were considered to be part of the same truth. One version of this…
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- … for such powers. Its main occupation was digging roots for food, and it could demolish any predator …
