CUL-DAR63-65    Note:    1870--1882   [Notes on worms for Earthworms, including (1) castings; (2) furrows & ploughed land; (3) experiments at different locales etc.]   Text   Image

p. 33. Ch 2. After ants dgm Mr. Fabre in his interesting Souvenirs Entomologiques stated that a Sphex, — an insect belonging to same highly endowed order with ants — usually drags to its by the antennæ a kind of grasshopper after paralyzing it. Now when Mr. Fabre cut off the antennæ Palpi, the sphex had not the sense to drag the insect by one its legs gave up the task as hopeless. So again when Mr Fabre removed the palpi grasshopper from the cell, the Sphex chew it up because there was papæ at

CUL-DAR63-65    Note:    1870--1882   [Notes on worms for Earthworms, including (1) castings; (2) furrows & ploughed land; (3) experiments at different locales etc.]   Text   Image

enormous colonies of ants, probably they are hostile to worms, if so the wall must have been down before the colonies formed. — Some castings close round edge of stone. — So bring the stone to level of field supposing ants to be about wd require about 35 x 4 [=] 140 years. The process cd probably go on slower as stone sank, so say 200 years: (over) [CUL-DAR64.2.35-36_004

CUL-DAR157.39    Draft:    [1870--1871]   Draft of Descent, "Ch II" p. 36   Text   Image

more difficulty in believing that the effects of the continued rising use of the vocal mental organs would be inherited, than in the case of hand-writing, which partly depends on the structure of the hand, partly on the disposition of the person, being inherited, as this is hand-writing is certainly the case inherited. *(31) We can see why the how it is happened that once formed the vocal organs have been which are now employed perpetuated for speech first came to be thus first used. Ants have

CUL-DAR252.5    Draft:    [1870s--1890s?]   Catalogue of Charles Robert Darwin's pamphlet collection: Quarto   Text

generation, bearing on Pangenesis 649 Lowne on secretion for Swallow's nest from stomach 1659 w Lubbock leaves 709 Lubbock Sir J. Development of relationships 1114 LUBBOCK PLANTS INSECTS WEISMANN KERNER 507 Lubbock Sir J. Address. Entomol Soc. 1868 117. LUBBOCK HABITS OF ANTS 162. Lubbock - Nervous Systems of Coccus 1188 Lubbock Anatomy of Ants 425 Lubbock address Entomol. Soc. 1468 Lubbock Fruits Seeds 591 Lubbock Address on lower races of man 1513 Lubbock Address BA 1881 [62

CUL-DAR252.5    Draft:    [1870s--1890s?]   Catalogue of Charles Robert Darwin's pamphlet collection: Quarto   Text

32 602 Maassen Number and variability of Butterflies 231 (bis) M'Andrew on comparative size of Shells 86 M'Andrew – Geographical Distribution of Testaceous Mollusca 1494 Mc Cook Ants 1494 258 Mac Donnell on Electrical organs 293 M' Donnell on Lepidorizen 1718 w Mac Donnel Vivisection 391 Macknight Madden True principles of Breeding 29 Maclaren – On Grooved Striated Rocks in middle Scotland = Maclay (Von Maklucho=) N. Papuans 584 M'Lenn [illeg] Worship of Animals Plants 928 Magnus Potato graft

F937.1    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1871. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. London: John Murray. vol. 1.   Text   Image   PDF

mind that insects belonging to this Order have the power of recognising each other after long intervals of time, and are deeply attached. For instance, Pierre Huber, whose accuracy no one doubts, separated some ants, and when after an interval of four months they met others which had formerly belonged to the same community, they mutually recognised and caressed each other with their antenn . Had they been strangers they would have fought together. Again, when two communities engage in a battle

F937.1    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1871. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. London: John Murray. vol. 1.   Text   Image   PDF

half-an-hour before. A train of old associations, dormant during five years, had thus been instantaneously awakened in his mind. Even ants, as P. Huber12 has clearly shewn, recognised their fellow-ants belonging to the same community after a separation of four months. Animals can certainly by some means judge of the intervals of time between recurrent events. The Imagination is one of the highest prerogatives of man. By this faculty he unites, independently of the will, former images and ideas

F937.1    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1871. The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex. London: John Murray. vol. 1.   Text   Image   PDF

powers of a female ant, would require, as Pierre Huber has shewn, a large volume; I may, however, briefly specify a few points. Ants communicate information to each other, and several unite for the same work, or games of play. They recognise their fellow-ants after months of absence. They build great edifices, keep them clean, close the doors in the evening, and post sentries. They make roads, and even tunnels under rivers. They collect food for the community, and when an object, too large for

F3621    Book contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1953. [Letter to J. T. Moggridge, 22 June [1871]]. Sotheby & Co. Catalogue of valuable printed books autograph letters, historical documents, etc. 6 July. London.   Text

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [page] 209 DARWIN (Charles) Interesting A.L.s., 5 1/2 pp., 8vo, Down, 22 Tune [1871], to Traherne Moggridge, referring to Moggridge's investigations on ants, and his own experiments with the fertilization of plants; also another A.L.s. of the same, one page, 8vo, 20 January 1881, concerning a pension for A. R. Wallace (2) ... I like to try experiments with only the ghost of a chance of success; so that I had intended (but failed from the plant being

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, which induce slight variations or individual differences in other parts of the body; and these variations, owing to our ignorance, are often said to arise spontaneously. We can, I think, come to no other conclusion with respect to the origin of the more complex instincts, when we reflect on the marvellous instincts of sterile worker-ants and bees, which leave no offspring to inherit the effects of experience and of modified habits. Although a high degree of intelligence is certainly compatible with