F1840    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 2000. Charles Darwin's zoology notes & specimen lists from H.M.S. Beagle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

Introduction Charles Darwin, referred to hereafter as CD, arrived in Plymouth on 24 October 1831 in order to accompany Captain Robert FitzRoy on H.M.S. Beagle as a scientist and companion. As he noted in his private journal1, the ship was 'in a state of bustle and confusion'. The carpenters were hard at work fitting up the drawers in the poop cabin, but the corner assigned to him, where for the next five years he was destined to work at his microscope and write his notes, looked too small to

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very considerably, so that any person would say the tail was broken. This came so often that it was difficult to obtain a litter without this defect. Very curious case = W. D. Fox.1 When dogs are bred into each other the females loose desire, it is required to give the cantharinides 1 William Darwin Fox. Probably personal communication. (Cf. Variation in Animals and Plants, 1868 2: 121. [deB] 177

F1574a    Pamphlet:     de Beer, Gavin ed. 1960. Darwin's notebooks on transmutation of species. Part I. First notebook [B] (July 1837-February 1838). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 2 (2) (January): 23-73.   Text   Image   PDF

of Charles, and now in the possession of Mr Howard Galton have one of the vertebra, about 2/3 from 176 base of tail, enlarged here [?] very considerably, so that any person would say the tail was broken and this came so often that it was difficult to obtain a litter without this defect. Very curious case. W.D. Fox.2 When dogs are bred into each other, the females loose [lose] desire, and it is required to give the cantharides. 177 178 excised. 179 Bull. Soc. Geolog., 1834, p. 217. Java Fossils

CUL-DAR205.7.144    Note:    1846.06.01   Fox W.D / Has known case of a Guinea-fowl cock which used always to tread   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [144] W.D. Fox. June 1.— 46— — Has known case of a Guinea-fowl cock, which used always to tread Hens perhaps also Guinea-Hens which were present but never saw or heard of it.— Now has a Peacock which daily tread a Guinea-hen, though he also has a Pea-hen.— Has known Pheasant regularly tread hen; hence I think my old aphorism of no instinctive horror true.— {Eggs of all such crosses seldom yield anything Disbelieves breeds of dogs having any taste for

EH88202576    Note:    1855.03.31--1859.01.05   Catalogue of Down Specimens Notebook   Text   Image

163. 4, 5. African Dovecots skins 166. Wild Antrom Rabbit, sent me by Mr Patterson Skeleton 167. Black B. Ayres Drake. Mr Brent. Dec. 29. 57 Skeleton 168 White Call Drake (W. D. Fox) Feb. 24. (58) Skeleton 169 170.} Young Rock Pigeons about 20 hours old from Col. King The white little crested Rumpless Fowls are pure Turkish The black crested rumpless Fowls are cross from black do Poland Cock Mr Tegetmeier. [25v

F1583    Book:     Stauffer, R. C. ed. 1975. Charles Darwin's Natural Selection; being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

from the common Chinese goose, I saw some with/126/black some with yellow beaks like one or the other parent; the Rev W. D. Fox informs me that in some other hybrids which he had seen there was considerable diversity in the degree of resemblance to either parent goose. Hybrids from between the Canary linnet are said to differ; from between the common Pheasant P. torquatus Temminck says some are 1 Numerous facts confirming these propositions may be found in Dr. Prosper Lucas' work on L'Heredite

F1583    Book:     Stauffer, R. C. ed. 1975. Charles Darwin's Natural Selection; being the second part of his big species book written from 1856 to 1858. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

tameness, however of dogs, is something more, for, I may add that the Rev. W. D. Fox saw a brood of his Turkeys with their mother in agonies of horror at a frog peeping out of a hole; as Mr. Fox remarked their instinct probably misled them to mistake the bright eyes of the frog for those of a deadly N. American snake. [page] 489 MENTAL POWERS AND INSTINCTS OF ANIMAL

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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online 33 Variation under Domestication 1867 English Edit. 1 Self 2 Etty 3 William 4 Erasmus 5 Th. Rivers 6 Sir W. Elliot 7 John Scott ✓ 8 R. Swinhoe. H.M. Cons through foreign Office 9 Tegetmeier 10 Blyth   Princess Terrace R. Park 11 Aug. Laugel   Orlean House Richmon   Surrey 12 Victor Carus 13 Mr. Robinson Munro at Pet Lawson. Inverleith Row 14 W. D. Fox 15 Fritz Müller ✓ 16 Walsh 17 Canestrini Modena ✓ 18 Asa Gray 19 Lyell 20 Hooker 21 Huxley 22 Wallace

F878.2    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1868. The variation of animals and plants under domestication. London: John Murray. 1st ed., second issue. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF

, during the last century, the Leicester sheep have been bred with the most scrupulous care; yet occasionally grey-faced, or black-spotted, or wholly black lambs appear.4 This occurs still more frequently with the less improved breeds, such as the Norfolks.5 As bearing on this tendency in sheep to revert to dark colours, I may state (though in doing so I trench on the reversion of crossed breeds, and likewise on the subject of prepotency) that the Rev. W. D. Fox was informed that seven white Southdown

F914.1    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1868. Das Variiren der Thiere und Pflanzen im Zustande der Domestication. Stuttgart: Schweizerbart. vol. 1.   Text   Image   PDF

3. Cap. Keren Variation. 93 Zahl der Zitzen variirt ebenso wie die Träclitigkeitsdauer. Der neueste Autor sagt 21 , dass die Dauer schwanke von 17—20 Wochen ; ich glaube aber, in dieser Angabe muss ein Irrt hum sein. Nach Tessier's  Beobachtungen an 25 Schweinen, variirte sie von 109 — 123 Tagen. W. D. Fox hat mir den Bericht von 10 sorgfältig beobachteten Fällen von rein gezüchteten Schweinen mit- getheilt, bei denen die Trächtigkeitsdauer von 101 — 116 Tagen schwankte. Nach Nathusius  ist

F877.1    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1868. The variation of animals and plants under domestication. London: John Murray. 1st ed., first issue. vol. 1.   Text   Image   PDF

become thoroughly feral, like so many other European animals. In another part of South America, according to Roulin,90 the introduced cat has lost the habit of uttering its hideous nocturnal howl. The Rev. W. D. Fox purchased a cat in Portsmouth, which he was told came from the coast of Guinea; its skin was black and wrinkled, fur bluish-grey and short, its ears rather bare, legs long, and whole aspect peculiar. This negro cat was fertile with common cats. On the opposite coast of Africa, at Mombas

F877.1    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1868. The variation of animals and plants under domestication. London: John Murray. 1st ed., first issue. vol. 1.   Text   Image   PDF

simply crossing silver-greys with chinchillas he could always produce some few Himalayans; and the latter, notwithstanding their sudden origin, if kept separate, bred perfectly true. The Himalayans, when first born, are quite white, and are then true albinoes; but in the course of a few months they gradually assume their dark ears, nose, feet, and tail. Occasionally, however, as I am informed by Mr. W. A. Wooler and the Rev. W. D. Fox, the young are born of a very pale grey colour, and specimens of

F877.1    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1868. The variation of animals and plants under domestication. London: John Murray. 1st ed., first issue. vol. 1.   Text   Image   PDF

nature would have been to a certain extent analogous to that borne by the males in several allied genera, such as Euplocomus, Lophophorus, and Pavo. Wild turkeys, believed in every instance to have been imported from the United States, have been kept in the parks of Lords Powis, Leicester, Hill, and Derby. The Rev. W. D. Fox procured birds from the two first-named parks, and he informs me that they certainly differed a little from each other in the shape of their bodies and in the barred

F877.2    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1868. The variation of animals and plants under domestication. London: John Murray. 1st ed., first issue. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF

potent means in modifying old races, and in forming new ones. Lord Orford crossed his famous stud of greyhounds once with the bulldog, which breed was chosen from being deficient in scenting powers, and from having what was wanted, courage and perseverance. In the course of six or seven generations all traces of the external form of the bulldog were eliminated, but courage and perseverance remained. Certain pointers have been crossed, as I hear from the Rev. W. D. Fox, with the foxhound, to give

F878.1    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1868. The variation of animals and plants under domestication. London: John Murray. 1st ed., second issue. vol. 1.   Text   Image   PDF

become thoroughly feral, like so many other European animals. In another part of South America, according to Roulin,90 the introduced cat has lost the habit of uttering its hideous nocturnal howl. The Rev. W. D. Fox purchased a cat in Portsmouth, which he was told came from the coast of Guinea; its skin was black and wrinkled, fur bluish-grey and short, its ears rather bare, legs long, and whole aspect peculiar. This negro cat was fertile with common cats. On the opposite coast of Africa, at Mombas

F878.1    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1868. The variation of animals and plants under domestication. London: John Murray. 1st ed., second issue. vol. 1.   Text   Image   PDF

simply crossing silver-greys with chinchillas he could always produce some few Himalayans; and the latter, notwithstanding their sudden origin, if kept separate, bred perfectly true. The Himalayans, when first born, are quite white, and are then true albinoes; but in the course of a few months they gradually assume their dark ears, nose, feet, and tail. Occasionally, however, as I am informed by Mr. W. A. Wooler and the Rev. W. D. Fox, the young are born of a very pale grey colour, and specimens of

F878.1    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1868. The variation of animals and plants under domestication. London: John Murray. 1st ed., second issue. vol. 1.   Text   Image   PDF

this nature would have been to a certain; extent analogous to that borne by the males in several allied genera, such as Euplocomus, Lophophorus, and Pavo. Wild turkeys, believed in every instance to have been imported from the United States, have been kept in the parks of Lords Powis, Leicester, Hill, and Derby. The Rev. W. D. Fox procured birds from the two first-named parks, and he informs me that they certainly differed a little from each other in the shape of their bodies and in the barred

F878.2    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1868. The variation of animals and plants under domestication. London: John Murray. 1st ed., second issue. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF

potent means in modifying old races, and in forming new ones. Lord Orford crossed his famous stud of greyhounds once with the bulldog, which breed was chosen from being deficient in scenting powers, and from having what was wanted, courage and perseverance. In the course of six or seven generations all traces of the external form of the bulldog were eliminated, but courage and perseverance remained. Certain pointers have been crossed, as I hear from the Rev. W. D. Fox, with the foxhound, to give

F914.1    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1868. Das Variiren der Thiere und Pflanzen im Zustande der Domestication. Stuttgart: Schweizerbart. vol. 1.   Text   Image   PDF

Versuch anzu- slellen, und fand, dass er durch einfache Kreuzung von Silbergrauen mit Chinchillas stets einige Himalaya-Kaninchen erhalten konnte, und trotz des plötzlichen Ursprungs der letzteren züchteten sie doch, wenn sie getrennt gehalten wurden, vollkommen rein. Die Himalayas sind gleich nach ihrer Geburt vollkommen weiss und wahre Albinos. Aber im Verlauf von wenig Monaten erhielten sie allmählich ihre dunklen Ohren, Nase, Füsse und Schwanz. Wie mir aber Mr. W. A. Wool er  und W. D. Fox

F914.1    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1868. Das Variiren der Thiere und Pflanzen im Zustande der Domestication. Stuttgart: Schweizerbart. vol. 1.   Text   Image   PDF

 Perlhuhn. 8. Cap. Wilde Truthühner j die man in allen einzelnen Fällen als aus den Vereinigten Staaten importirl annahm, wurden in den Parks der Lords Powis, Leicester, Hill und Derby  gehalten. W.D.Fox verschaffte sich Vögel aus den zwei erstgenannten Parks und er theilt mir mit, dass sie sicher etwas von einander in der Form ihrer Körper und in dem gebänderten Gefieder auf ihren Flügeln abwichen. Auch waren diese Vögel von Lord Hill's Heerde verschieden. Einige dieser letzteren, welche von

F914.2    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1868. Das Variiren der Thiere und Pflanzen im Zustande der Domestication. Stuttgart: Schweizerbart. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF

bochas) vollig ahnlich war. Von der Moschus­ ente (.A. moschata L.) gibt es zwei Unterrassen, namlich weisse und schieferfarbige und wie man mir mitgetheilt hat, ziichten diese rein oder na.hezu rein. Mr. W. D. Fox erzahlt mir aber, dass nach der Pa.a.rung eines weissen Enterichs mit einer schieferfarbigen Ente immer schwarz mit weiss gescheckte Vogel, wie die wilde Moschusente producirt warden. Wir haben im vierten Capitel gesehen, dass sogenannte Himalaya­ kaninchen mit einem schneeweissen

F914.2    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1868. Das Variiren der Thiere und Pflanzen im Zustande der Domestication. Stuttgart: Schweizerbart. vol. 2.   Text   Image   PDF

haberrassen zu haben scheine 8; und doch sind alle sicher von einem gemeinsamen Urerzeuger entsprungen. Mr. W. D. Fox theilt mir mit, dass sich seineHeerden weisserund gemeiner cochinchinesischer Ganse distinct hielten.     Wenn auch einige von diesen Thatsachen und Angaben einen Beweis nicht zulassen, da sie nur auf der Meinung erfahrener Beobachter beruhen; so zeigen sie doch, dass einige domesticirte Rassen· durch verschiedene Lebensweisen dahin gebracht werden, in einer gewissen Ausdehnung

F879.1    Book:     Darwin, C. R. [1868]. The variation of animals and plants under domestication. With a preface by Asa Gray. New York: Orange Judd and Co. vol. 1.   Text   Image   PDF

on statements made by Buffon, Gilibert, Bechstein, and others; but these are now known to be erroneous; and the period is found to agree in the wolf, jackal, and dog, as closely as could be expected, for it is often in some degree variable.41 Tessier, who has closely attended to this subject, allows a difference of four days in the gestation of the dog. The Rev. W. D. Fox has given me three carefully recorded cases of retrievers, in which the bitch was put only once to the dog; and not

F879.1    Book:     Darwin, C. R. [1868]. The variation of animals and plants under domestication. With a preface by Asa Gray. New York: Orange Judd and Co. vol. 1.   Text   Image   PDF

must be some error in this statement: in M. Tessiers observations on 25 sows it varied from 109 to 123 days. The Rev. W. D. Fox has given me ten carefully recorded cases with well-bred pigs, in which the period varied from 101 to 116 days. According to Nathusius the period is 19 Die Racen des Schweines, s.47. Schweinesch del, s. 104. Compare, also, the figures of the old Irisd and the improved Irish breeds in Richardson on The pig, 1847. 20 Quoted by Isid. Geoffroy, Hist. Nat. G n, tom. iii. p

F879.1    Book:     Darwin, C. R. [1868]. The variation of animals and plants under domestication. With a preface by Asa Gray. New York: Orange Judd and Co. vol. 1.   Text   Image   PDF

United States wild male turkeys sometimes court the domestic hens, which are descended from the Mexican form, and are generally received by them with great pleasure. 36 Several accounts have likewise been published of young birds, reared in the United States from the eggs of the wild species, crossing and commingling with the common breed. In England, also, this same species has been kept in several paprks; from two of which the Rev. W. D. Fox procured birds, and they crossed freely with the