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
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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expression in Commentary
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.…
Matches: 1 hits
- … another parrot who escaped his cage and helped himself to food (‘how dare you Sir’), a perfidious …