RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Review of Das Thierleben der Alpenwelt / Draft of Living Cirripedia (1854). CUL-DAR205.2.124. (Cite as: John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 5.2022. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR205.2 contains notes on means of distribution.
The brown crayon number '18' indicates that this document was filed by Darwin in his portfolio for the subject of Migration.
Das Thierleben der Alpenwelt F. von Tschudi (Review in Athenaeum /55/ p. 480/. Relates several cases of Eagles taking away children 3 years old. called Lamb-Eagle— Will seize Foxes "& occasions have been known when he has seized upon the throat of an Eagle in mid air & bit it through with such force that both have come to the ground, with comparative safety to Reynard. One child was carried some distance & dropped & lived & was called Eagle-annie.
The Reviewer says he saw once on Goldsborough Moor an Hawk & weazel descending together, the former badly wounded, but the weazel run away.—
The number of these stories makes me believe in them.—
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Anon. 1855. [Review of] von Tschudi, Das Thierleben der Alpenwelt. Athenaeum no. 1435: 480.
[Draft of Living Cirripedia (1854), p. 418]
[upper half of sheet excised]
lower part of the shell. The large [excised]
which I have seen was 2½ to inch [excised]
2 in height.
Scuta.— These are placed together at the rostral end of the aperture, & are imbedded in the brownish, tough, longitudinally plicated horny substance, which extends far beyond both ends of the valves.
In outline, they are mitre-shaped or rounded
& more or less elongated being most so in young specimens; they are however a little coursed less elongated & rather more massive than in C. Balænaris. Terga, — these seem entirely absent in most specimens;
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