Tegetmeier, William Bernhard. 1870. The value of gelatin as food. Food Journal, 1 September 1870, pp. 444–5.
From W. G. Walker 6 December 1874
Summary
On voluntary vomiting. Dogs re-swallow vomited food.
| Author: | William Gregory Walker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 6 Dec 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 181: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9745 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … On voluntary vomiting. Dogs re-swallow vomited food. …
- … remarked that bitches often vomited up food for their young when the young had reached a …
- … returning like a dog to his vomit’. If the food is, or is supposed to be, injurious,— …
- … some other animals) of voluntarily rejecting food which disagreed with them or which they …
- … unwholesome load. But when they have rejected food in this manner, they shortly afterwards …
To William Watson 17 April 1882
Summary
Corrects WW’s misunderstanding of passage about habit of dogs in burying food [see Expression: 44].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John William (William) Watson |
| Date: | 17 Apr 1882 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.619) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13769 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … s misunderstanding of passage about habit of dogs in burying food [see Expression : 44]. …
- … their buried treasures. A dog when burying food makes a hole (as far as I have seen) with …
- … the sentence about the burying of food; & if inserted at all, it ought to have been at end …
- … s wilder progenitors, of “burying superfluous food”’ ( Academy , 10 June 1882, p. 417). …
Thorne, Stuart. 1986. The history of food preservation. Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria: Parthenon Publishing.
Matches: 1 hit
- … Thorne, Stuart. 1986. The history of food preservation. Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria: …
From Mary Treat 20 December 1871
Summary
Describes fly-catching activity of Drosera longifolia.
Experiments on Papilio asterias; sex of adult determined by length of larval feeding time.
| Author: | Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 20 Dec 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 33 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8113 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … specimens were inclined to leave their food several days earlier than others, and these …
- … longer; so, after they had wandered from their food, and even selected places for their …
- … them with a fresh supply of their favorite food, I could almost invariably induce them to …
- … at that stage to be induced to change its food, though they will change in their earlier …
- … to change even then, and frequently fail to transform when their food is thus changed. …
- … They can be induced to change their food to the nearest allied species of plants with less …
- … to produce a male, if I cut off its supply of food, even when it was eating greedily, it …
- … perhaps a little longer, as if in search of food, but finally it almost always changed to …
- … as those of the previous year. Their food-plant was Archangelica hirsuta . I have the …
From James Dickson 14 December 1872
Summary
Sends CD the case of a man he knew who could reject food voluntarily, in substantiation of the passage in Expression [p. 259] in which CD says "the suspicion arises that our progenitors must formerly have had [this] power".
| Author: | James Dickson |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Dec 1872 |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 179 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8680 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … possessed the power of voluntarily rejecting food. You have this on the authority of | …
- … case of a man he knew who could reject food voluntarily, in substantiation of the passage …
- … have had the power of voluntarily rejecting food which disagreed with them. ” Your use of …
- … objection being that of parting with the food. On one occasion he was with us in a search …
- … for vomit , and the action in question) food because it disagreed with him, but I have …
Doubleday, Thomas. 1842. The true law of population shewn to be connected with the food of the people. London.
Matches: 1 hit
- … The true law of population shewn to be connected with the food of the people. London. 5,19 …
Shephard, Sue. 2000. Pickled, potted and canned: the story of food preserving. London: Headline Book Publishing.
Matches: 1 hit
- … Sue. 2000. Pickled, potted and canned: the story of food preserving. London: Headline Book …
From Horatio Piggot 13 September 1877
Summary
Criticises passages of Insectivorous plants. Suggests plants be weighed before and after feeding to prove they have gained nourishment.
| Author: | Horatio Piggot |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | DAR 174: 44 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11138 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … experiments in feeding the Drosera with Fly food &c require something more to be done to …
- … for this purpose the weight of the plant & the food before & after experiment should …
- … be carefully ascertained, & where mineral food has been taken, the residue of the plant …
- … to find out that they can feed on Animal food: The experiment with Carbonates was hardly …
- … for vegetables as they never take their food in that form. The Secretion of a viscid fluid …
- … the plant would indicate growth from the Fly food: I do not know of what compound a fly is …
- … the ordinary pursuit of plants, obtaining their food externally from Carbon Dioxide in the …
To Nature 1 July [1871]
Summary
Refers H. H. Howorth, the writer of "A new view of Darwinism" [Nature 4 (1871): 161–2], to Variation for a discussion of fertility and sterility of organisms in relation to increased food and other factors.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | 1 July [1871] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 6 July 1871, pp. 180–1 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7846 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … of fertility and sterility of organisms in relation to increased food and other factors. …
- … law of population shewn to be connected with the food of the people . 2d edition. London: …
- … and sterility of organisms from increased food and other causes. He will see my reasons …
- … population shewn to be connected with the food of the people ( Doubleday 1843 , especially …
From Arthur Nicols [before 20 March 1873]
Summary
Compares sense of smell in dogs and cats.
| Author: | Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 20 Mar 1873] |
| Classmark: | Nicols 1885, pp. 51–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8817F |
Matches: 5 hits
- … cat was quite familiar with me, and had been kept a long time without food intentionally. …
- … I used fish because it was a food to which she was accustomed, and calculated to emit …
- … me with the conviction that cats discover food by smell with very indifferent success; …
- … cats often seem to experience in finding food thrown down to them, unless they see it …
- … other in the manner of searching for the food. The dog went to work with confidence, and, …
From Francis Darwin [before 21 May 1877]
Summary
Edwin Ray Lankester wants to reprint FD’s paper ‘Food bodies’ in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 21 May 1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10520F |
Doubleday, Thomas. 1843. The true law of population shewn to be connected with the food of the people. 2d edition. London: Effingham Wilson.
Matches: 1 hit
- … law of population shewn to be connected with the food of the people . 2d edition. London: …
From Francis Darwin [before 22 August 1872]
Summary
Sutton says monkeys often vomit, but cannot say whether they do it voluntarily.
| Author: | Francis Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [before 22 Aug 1872] |
| Classmark: | DAR 195.3: 67 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5556 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … power of voluntarily throwing up of’] what food to avoid there would be less occasion * …
- … del ‘power’] of voluntarily throwing up food from the [ stomach ] ; so that the power w d …
- … the thought of having eaten a particular food suggested that human ancestors once had the …
- … others, the knowledge of the kinds of food to be avoided, he would have little occasion to …
From James Gibb 23 February 1875
Summary
Thinks he has observed the origin of the shake of the head as signifying "no" in his seven-month-old son.
| Author: | James Gibb |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 23 Feb 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 165: 35 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9867 |
To J. J. Weir 19 October 1871
Summary
"Like you I have often wondered at the different food of the old and young, as with graminivorous birds feeding their young with insects."
Recommends forthcoming book by John Lubbock [Monograph of the Collembola and Thysanura (1873)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Jenner Weir |
| Date: | 19 Oct 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 328 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8018 |
To Ernst Dieffenbach 16 December 1843
Summary
"You will have been sorry to have seen in the newspapers, the disturbances & fightings with the New Zealanders. – I have lately been much interested in reading your chapters on the slow decrease in numbers … of these poor people. The case appears to me very curious, especially as the decrease has commenced or continued since the introduction of the potato – the relation between the amount of population & of food is hence inverted. It would have been a case for the great Malthus to have reflected on".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Ernst Dieffenbach |
| Date: | 16 Dec 1843 |
| Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (Catalogue 574 11–13 November 1965) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-725 |
From Karl Höchberg 21 February 1879
Summary
Describes health-related arguments for vegetarianism. Notes arguments that anthropoid apes are vegetarians. Asks whether man is sufficiently adapted to mixed diet so that meat is not harmful?
| Author: | Karl Höchberg |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 21 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 227 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11897 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … do not want to indulge in meat or animal foods at all, but others on sanitary grounds …
- … themselves exclusively or almost exclusively to vegetarian foods. The latter assert that …
- … is in error when it claims that animal food is beneficial to man, as proof for this claim …
- … of nitrogenous to carbonic elements in food stuffs was 1 to 5 or 6. It is argued that no …
- … the utilisation, digestibility and adequacy of food, they say, depends also on physical …
- … composition. It is further argued that animal food, in particular meat, has a demonstrable …
FishBase: FishBase. A global information system on fishes. Edited by Daniel Pauly and R. Froese. WorldFish Center in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations and others. http://www.fishbase.org/home.htm. 2005.
Matches: 1 hit
- … WorldFish Center in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United …
Hassall, Arthur Hill. 1855. Food and its adulterations: comprising the reports of the Analytical Sanitary Commission of ‘The Lancet’ for the years 1851 to 1854 inclusive. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans.
Matches: 1 hit
- … Hassall, Arthur Hill. 1855. Food and its adulterations: comprising the reports of the …
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aesthetics in Commentary
Beauty and the seed
Summary
One of the real pleasures afforded in reading Charles Darwin’s correspondence is the discovery of areas of research on which he never published, but which interested him deeply. We can gain many insights about Darwin’s research methods by following these …
Matches: 1 hits
- … small stones in order to promote the breaking up of their food, I imagined that these hard and …
