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From Arthur Nicols 21 February 1873
Summary
Comments on CD’s and William Huggins’ letter in Nature on "Inherited instinct" [Collected papers 2: 170–1]
and on A. R. Wallace’s letter on the homing faculty of animals. Believes many instances of homing are less remarkable than they appear.
Author: | Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Feb 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 60 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8780 |
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 |
From Arthur Nicols 25 May 1873
Summary
Thanks to CD his candidature for the Zoological Society has been entertained.
Observed a flamingo, at the Zoological Gardens, that vomited on a bustard in answer to the latter’s harsh cries.
Author: | Robert Arthur (Arthur) Nicols |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 172: 61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8922 |