F181    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1875. Voyage d'un naturaliste autour du monde fait a bord du navire le Beagle de 1831 a 1836. Translated by E. Barbier. Paris: C. Reinwald.   Text   Image   PDF

brûlure semblable à celle que produit la physalie ou frégate. Un Octopus ou poulpe m'a aussi beaucoup intéressé, et j'ai passé de longues heures à étudier ses habitudes. Bien que communs dans les flaques que laisse la marée en se retirant, ces animaux ne s'attrapent pas facilement. Au moyen de leurs longs bras et de leurs suçoirs, ils parviennent à se fourrer dans des crevasses fort étroites et, une fois là, il faut employer une grande force pour les en faire sortir. D'autres fois, ils s'élancent

F1416    Book contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1882. [Extracts from Darwin's draft chapter 10 of Natural selection]. In Romanes, G. J., Animal intelligence. London: Kegan Paul Trench & Co.   Text   Image   PDF

mistakable evidence of consciousness and intelligence. This observer had an opportunity of watching them for a long time in the zoological station at Naples; and he says that they appeared to recognise their keeper after they had for some time received their food from him. Hollmann narrates that an octopus, which had had a struggle with a lobster, followed the latter into an adjacent tank, to which it had been removed for safety, and there destroyed it. In order to do this the octopus had to

F1416    Book contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1882. [Extracts from Darwin's draft chapter 10 of Natural selection]. In Romanes, G. J., Animal intelligence. London: Kegan Paul Trench & Co.   Text   Image   PDF

swallow, house-martin, 292; tomtit, woodpecker, starling, weaver, 293; baya, tale-gallus, 294; grosbeak, 295, 296; swan, 296-8; Wallace's theories concerning, 298, 299; variability of 299-301; of harvesting mice, 365 Nightingales, removing nest, 289 Niphon, Professor, on intelligence of a mule, 333, 334 Noctua Eningii, 238 Noctura verbasci, 236 North, the Rev. W., on intelligence of mice, 361, 362 Nottebohm, Herr, on ants stocking trees with aphides, 63 OBSTETRIC-FISH, 246; toad, 254 Octopus

F1416    Book contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1882. [Extracts from Darwin's draft chapter 10 of Natural selection]. In Romanes, G. J., Animal intelligence. London: Kegan Paul Trench & Co.   Text   Image   PDF

Schlosser, on jaculator-fish, 248 Schl ter, Herr A., on a hornet carrying heavy prey up an elevation in order to fly away with it, 196 Schneider, on intelligence of octopus, 29, 30; on fish guarding eggs, 242; jealousy of fish, 247 Sclater, Dr., on instincts of cuckoo, 325; lending a cebus for observation, 483 Scoresby, on maternal affection of whale, 327; on intelligence of polar bear, 351 Scorpion, alleged suicide of, when surrounded by fire or heat, 222-25 Sea-anemones, 233, 234 Seals

F4042    Book contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1885. [Extracts from letters addressed to Professor Henslow (abridged)]. In E. Krause, Charles Darwin und sein Verhältnis zu Deutschland. Leipzig: E. Günther, pp. 21-33.   Text

mein gewöhnlicher Begleiter war.......An der Küste sammelte ich viele Seetiere, hauptsächlich Gasteropoden (darunter, wie ich glaube, einige neue). Ich untersuchte ziemlich genau eine Caryophyllia, und wenn meine Augen nicht behext waren, so haben frühere Beschreibungen nicht die leiseste Ähnlichkeit mit dem Tiere. Ich fing mehrere Exemplare eines Octopus, welcher eine wunderbare Fähigkeit besass, seine Färbungen zu wechseln; er kam darin jedem beliebigen Chamäleon gleich, indem er sich

F1445    Book contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1887. Über den Instinkt. In G. J. Romanes, Die geistige Entwicklung im Tierreich. Leipzig: E. Günther.   Text   Image   PDF

- 154 - niden, Krustazeen, Cephalopoden und die kattblütigen Wirbeltiere auf eine Stute mit dem Ursprunge der Einbildungskraft stelle. Meine Rechtfertigung dafür habe ich schon an andrer Stelle gegeben'). So musste doch jener Octopus, der in der Verfolgung eines Hummers, mit dem er in einem angrenzenden Wasserbehälter gekampft hatte, mühsam die senkrechte Scheidewand zwischen beiden Behgltern emporkietterte, durch ein dauerndes geistiges Bild oder eine Erinnerung an seinen Gegner dazu

F1445    Book contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1887. Über den Instinkt. In G. J. Romanes, Die geistige Entwicklung im Tierreich. Leipzig: E. Günther.   Text   Image   PDF

GeruchsvermOgen besitzt, beweist die Schnelligkeit, mit der sie ihre Nahrung zu finden wissen, und vom Octopus sagt man [. (Marshall) Oberdies, dass er einen starken Widerwillen gegen be- |. stimmte Gerüche habe. Bei den Cephalopoden werden die Ge- [ ruchsorgane wahrscheinlich von zwei kleinen Höhlungen in der | [page break

F1452.3    Book:     Darwin, Francis ed. 1887. The life and letters of Charles Darwin, including an autobiographical chapter. vol. 3. London: John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

OBSERVING. Observing, pleasure of, ii. 341. Oceanic islands, ii. 162; volcanic, ii. 76. Oceans and Continents, permanence of, iii. 247. Oceans, antiquity of, ii. 76. Octopus, change of colour in an, i. 235. Ogle, Dr. W., letters to: on Hippocrates and Pangenesis, iii. 82; on the expression of the emotions, iii. 141, 142, 143; on his translation of Aristotle 'On the parts of Animals,' iii. 251; on Kerner's 'Flowers and their Unbidden Guests,' iii. 287. on the fertilisation of Salvia, iii. 278

F59    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1890. Journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle etc. London: John Murray. First Murray illustrated edition.   Text   Image   PDF

I red fluid, which stains the water for the space of a foot around. Besides this means of defence, an acrid secretion, which is spread over its body, causes a sharp, stinging sensation, similar to that produced by the Physalia, or Portuguese man-of-war. I was much interested, on several occasions, by watching the habits of an Octopus, or cuttle-fish. Although common in the pools of water left by the retiring tide, these animals were not easily caught. By means of their long arms and suckers

A268    Book:     Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons.   Text   Image   PDF

[page] New Discoveries Concerning the Octopus. 2

A268    Book:     Holder, Charles Frederick. 1892. Charles Darwin: his life and work. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons.   Text   Image   PDF

above the surface, striking an inquisitive observer full in the face. Darwin was perhaps the first also to observe that the octopus is luminous at times. One which he kept in his cabin gleamed with a slight phosphorescence, which we can imagine might be used as a decoy, or perhaps to menace its foes. In February, 1831, the Beagle sighted the famous St. Paul's Rocks, one of the most desolate spots on the globe, consisting of a few rocks five hundred and forty miles from the American coast and

A4    Book:     Rutherford, H. W., 1908. Catalogue of the library of Charles Darwin now in the Botany School, Cambridge. Compiled by H. W. Rutherford, of the University Library; with an Introduction by Francis Darwin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

On the structure and characters of the Octopus ventricosus, Gr....from the Firth of Forth. (Extr.) 8vo. Edinburgh, 1827. [Philos. Tracts, i. 6.] 11 On...Cili (sic) in the young of the Gasteropodous Mollusca, c. (Extr.) 8vo. Edinburgh, 1827. [Philos. Tracts, i. 7.] 11 On...Lern a elongata, Gr....from the Arctic Seas. (Extr.) 8vo. Edinburgh (1827). [Philos. Tracts, i. 8.] 11 Notice regarding the Ova of the Pontobdella muricata, Lam. (Extr.) 8vo. Edinburgh (1827). [Philos. Tracts, i. 9.] 11

A162    Book:     Seward, A. C. ed. 1909. Darwin and modern science. Essays in commemoration of the centenary of the birth of Charles Darwin and of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The origin of species. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

of the cephalopoda. The nearest living ally of the ammonites is the pearly nautilus, the other existing cephalopods, such as the squids, cuttle-fish, octopus, etc., are much more distantly related. Like the nautilus, the ammonites all possess a coiled and chambered shell, but their especial characteristic is the complexity of the sutures. By sutures is meant the edges of the transverse partitions, or septa, where these join the shell-wall, and their complexity in the fully developed genera is

A331    Book:     Poulton, Edward Bagnall. 1909. Charles Darwin and the Origin of species: addresses, etc., in America and England in the year of the two anniversaries. London: Longmans, Green, and Co.   Text   Image

Man, c., and sexual selection, 230-6, 242-5; on sexual selection and warning colours, 111-12 and markings now considered episematic, 112-13; and mimicry, 132-5. On Mimicry, Protective Resemblance, c.:—Bates, Wallace, Fritz Müller, and Trimen in relation to, 46, 123-9, 132-5, 144-5, 236, 240-1; on mimetic Planarians, 122; desert plants, 98; variable colours of octopus, 108-9; S. American toad, 110-11; flowers and fruit, 113, 113 n. 3; protective resemblance, 103-9; recognition marks unknown to

F1598    Book:     Barlow, Nora ed. 1967. Darwin and Henslow. The growth of an idea. London: Bentham-Moxon Trust, John Murray.   Text   Image   PDF

Caryophillea2 [corrected to Caryophyllea] if my eyes were not bewitched former descriptions have not the slightest resemblance to the animal. I took several specimens of an Octopus my family and friends for so long a time, and the weather seemed to me inexpressibly gloomy. I was also troubled with palpitations and pain about the heart, and like many a young ignorant man, especially one with a smattering of medical knowledge, was convinced that I had heart disease.' This, I believe, is the first

A668    Book:     Atkins, Hedley. 1976. Down: the home of the Darwins; the story of a house and the people who lived there. London: Royal College of Surgeons [Phillimore].   Text   PDF

Octopus who held the reins of the family firmly but gently together. For the last ten years of her life, spent during the winter months in Cambridge, patience was her great solace and she used to play at least one game every night as a night-cap before going to bed. In a letter to Henrietta in June 1886 she writes: Frank and Ellen [Francis' second wife, Ellen Crofts] to dinner and a little whist, after which I succeeded in your patience with only one cheat! 19 Perhaps she should have been the

F1817    Book:     Barrett, Paul H., Gautrey, Peter J., Herbert, Sandra, Kohn, David, Smith, Sydney eds. 1987. Charles Darwin's notebooks, 1836-1844: Geology, transmutation of species, metaphysical enquiries. British Museum (Natural History); Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text

in Octopus Chamælion.— CD. Sucking feet in Frog. Walrus. Fly. Gecko c. Prehensile tail. in Monkeys Marsupials. Harvest mouse (Chamælion?) CD. Spines in Hedge Hog Echidna.. Aphrodites CD. Endless cases.— 28v Macculloch p. 260 intimates canines no special use to Man.1 Applicable to Bell's sneering-theory.—2 p. 263. This kind of doctrine runs through Macculloch, the bills of the Grallæ ‹are› «have been made» long «(as adapted to)» because their food lies deep.—3 I say it is «as» simple consequence

F1925    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1988. Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

extremely vivid it is curious how all animated nature becomes more gaudy as it approaches the hotter countries. Birds, fishes, plants, shells are familiar to every one. but the colours in these marine animals will rival in brilliancy those of the higher classes.1 1 In Journal of Researches pp. 6 7, CD wrote: 'I was much interested, on several occasions, by watching the habits of an Octopus or cuttle-fish. Although common in the pools of water left by the retiring tide, these animals were not

A2112    Book:     Armstrong, Patrick. 2004. Darwin's other islands. London: Continuum.   Text

morphology of the animal, its habitat and behaviour. Darwin also performed experiments on the behaviour, or at least irritability, of animals. We noted this in the case of the octopus at St Jago in the Cape Verde Islands, and the flat-worms he found in Tasmania. Here Darwin is describing a 'purplish red' sea-anemone: The animal has the remarkable power when irritated of emitting from its mouth . . . bunches of viscous threads. These threads are colored 'Peach Aurora Red', they can be drawn out when in

A2112    Book:     Armstrong, Patrick. 2004. Darwin's other islands. London: Continuum.   Text

interact with and form part of the environment in a manner comparable with that of other creatures. The young naturalist is describing an environment - a modern scientist would say ecosystem - in a remarkably integrated, holistic way. Ever since his encounter with the octopus in the Cape Verde Islands (p. 42), just a few weeks into the voyage, one of the things that characterizes Darwin's descriptions of animals is the emphasis on behaviour; long before the science of ethology became a

A2112    Book:     Armstrong, Patrick. 2004. Darwin's other islands. London: Continuum.   Text

Falklands car-acara, as well as its appearance, suggests a relationship with hawks. Few had suggested that animal behaviour might be used as an aid to taxonomy in his day. He sometimes adopted an experimental approach, applying touch or light to organisms such as flatworms (planaria) and sea-anemones. The octopus at St Jago was placed on substrata of differing colour and even subjected to electric shocks. Psychology and ethology were at that time in their infancy and these approaches show an