PC-Virginia-Francis-F373    Printed:    1859   On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London: John Murray. [Francis Darwin's copy]  London   Text   Image   PDF

. Horner, Mr., on the antiquity of Egyptians, 18. Horns, rudimentary, 454. Horse, fossil, in La Plata, 318. Horses destroyed by flies in La Plata, 72. ——, striped, 163. ——, proportions of, when young, 445. Horticulturists, selection applied by, 32. Huber on cells of bees, 230. ——, P., on reason blended with instinct, 208. ——, on habitual nature of instincts, 208. ——, on slave making ants, 219. ——, on Melipona domestica, 225. Humble-bees, cells of, 225. Hunter, J., on secondary sexual characters, 150

CUL-DAR205.11.96-97    Note:    1859.07.23--1859.07.25   Observed numbers of ants by great nest by Wall F[ormica] rufa or wood-ant   Text   Image

skins. Another, I believe dropped it several yards further off. The skins retard progress of ant greatly; the larger torn skins most, so that then are dropped by others carrying skins— Labor useless for they are so light that gentlest breeze blows them away.— I took two skins from 2 ants on the road brought them to near nest, then soon 2 ants started with them on the same journey. The preciousness of pupæ perhaps helps blunder. Begin with Birds broken egg-shells.— admit no doubt useful from vast

CUL-DAR226.1.50    Printed:    1859.12.03   [Crawfurd, J.] 1859. [Review of Origin]. Examiner (3 December), pp. 772-73.   Text   Image   PDF

and some preparation for the task. All, however, is by no means of this description, and many parts of the work abound in information, easy to comprehend and both instructive and entertaining. Mr Darwin's account of the slave-making ants, for there are several species of them, is an example. It will be observed that, as with human slave-dealing, the slave is black, and the dealer, if not white, at least red or fairer. The eloquent concluding paragraph of the work is another among the many which

A19    Review:     [Wilberforce, Samuel]. 1860. [Review of] On the Origin of Species, by means of Natural Selection; or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. By Charles Darwin, M. A., F.R.S. London, 1860. Quarterly Review 108: 225-264.   Text   Image   PDF

been described by Mr. Smith. Although so small a species, it is very courageous, and I have seen it ferociously attack other ants. In one instance I found to my surprise an independent community of F. flava under a stone beneath a nest of the slave-making F. sanguinea, and when I had accidentally disturbed both nests, the little ants attacked their big neighbours with surprising courage. 'Now I was curious to ascertain whether F. sanguinea could distinguish the pupæ of F. fusca, which they

F380    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1860. The origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. New York: D. Appleton. New edition, revised and augmented.   Text   Image   PDF

in the case of corporeal structure, and conformably with my theory, the instinct of each species is good for itself, but has never, as far as we can judge, been produced for the exclusive good of others. One of the strongest instances of an animal apparently performing an action for the sole good of another, with which I am acquainted, is that of aphides voluntarily yielding their sweet excretion to ants: that they do so voluntarily, the following facts show. I removed all the ants from a group

F376    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1860. On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London: John Murray. 2d ed., second issue.   Text   Image   PDF

of the Conditions of Existence embraced by the theory of Natural Selection .. .. .. .. .. .. Page 171-206 CHAPTER VII. INSTINCT. Instincts comparable with habits, but different in their origin — Instincts graduated — Aphides and ants — Instincts variable — Domestic instincts, their origin — Natural instincts of the cuckoo, ostrich, and parasitic bees — Slave-making ants — Hive-bee, its cell-making instinct — Difficulties on the theory of the Natural Selection of instincts — Neuter or sterile

A253    Review:     [Morris, John.] 1860. [Review of] On the origin of species. Dublin Review 48: 50-81.   Text   Image   PDF

difference in the usual habits of the masters and slaves in the two countries, probably depends merely on the slaves being captured in greater numbers in Switzerland than in England. (p. 221.) Now, what should we expect as the probable result of a habit of this description, if it were exemplified, not in ants, but in men? We should say that it would certainly produce indolence and luxury; that it would sharpen skill and cunning in the method of capture, but that it would result in all the

A1347    Review:     Anon. 1860. [Review of] The origin of species. Hartford Courant (Connecticut), (31 May): 2.   Text   PDF

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 2 The Origin of Species THE recently published book of Charles Darwin, on the origin of species, is a mine of curious facts and speculation. He is not only a careful observer, but he is a bold speculator upon what he observes; and has done more to interest the public in closely examining the habits and instincts of animated nature, on the large or the small scale, than any writer since Buffon. Darwin's observations of the habits of certain ants

F376    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1860. On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London: John Murray. 2d ed., second issue.   Text   Image   PDF

CHAPTER VII. INSTINCT. Instincts comparable with habits, but different in their origin — Instincts graduated — Aphides and ants — Instincts variable — Domestic instincts, their origin — Natural instincts of the cuckoo, ostrich, and parasitic bees — Slave-making-ants — Hive-bee, its cell-making instinct — Difficulties on the theory of the Natural Selection of instincts — Neuter or sterile insects — Summary. THE subject of instinct might have been worked into the previous chapters; but I have

F376    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1860. On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London: John Murray. 2d ed., second issue.   Text   Image   PDF

will not pretend to conjecture. But as ants, which are not slave-makers, will, as I have seen, carry off pupæ of other species, if scattered near their nests, it is possible that such pupæ originally stored as food might become developed; and the foreign ants thus unintentionally reared would then follow their proper instincts, and do [page] 22