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EH88202575    Note:    1839--1882   Charles Darwin's Address Book.   Text   Image
Lane Dr. 38 Devonshire Place Portland Place Edward Wickstead Lane. Listed above. Lincecum Gideon Long Point Texas— Gideon Lincecum (1793-1874), American physician and naturalist. Lyell 73 Harley St. W. Charles Lyell. Listed on p. 24. Lewes G. H. The Priory, North Bank R. Park George Henry Lewes (1817-1878), philosopher and literary critic. Lawson Dr. 8 Nottingham Place W. Henry Lawson (1840-1877), physician and journal editor. Layton C. agent for Appleton 15 Little Britain City London Charles
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F1938    Periodical contribution:     [Darwin, C. R.] 1862. Notice on the Habits of the "Agricultural Ant" of Texas ["Stinging Ant" or "Mound-making Ant," Myrmica (Atta) malefaciens, Buckley]. By Gideon Lincecum, Esq., M.D. Communicated by Charles Darwin, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S. [Read 18 April 1861] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London (Zoology) 6: 29-31.   Text   Image   PDF
all seasons watched the same ant-cities during the last twelve years, and I know that what I stated in my former letter is true. I visited the same cities yesterday, and found the crop of ant-rice growing finely, and exhibiting also the signs of high cultivation, and not a blade of any other kind of grass or weed was to be seen within twelve inches of the circular row of ant-rice. In his second letter Dr. Lincecum proceeds to give some account of what he terms the Horticultural Ant, which
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F1938    Periodical contribution:     [Darwin, C. R.] 1862. Notice on the Habits of the "Agricultural Ant" of Texas ["Stinging Ant" or "Mound-making Ant," Myrmica (Atta) malefaciens, Buckley]. By Gideon Lincecum, Esq., M.D. Communicated by Charles Darwin, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S. [Read 18 April 1861] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London (Zoology) 6: 29-31.   Text   Image   PDF
[Darwin, C. R.] 1862. Notice on the Habits of the Agricultural Ant of Texas [ Stinging Ant or Mound-making Ant, Myrmica (Atta) malefaciens, Buckley]. By Gideon Lincecum, Esq., M.D. Communicated by Charles Darwin, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S. [Read 18 April 1861] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London (Zoology) 6: 29-31. [page] 29 Notice on the Habits of the Agricultural Ant of Texas [ Stinging Ant or Mound-making Ant, Myrmica (Atta) malefaciens, Buckley]. By GIDEON LINCECUM, Esq
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F1938    Periodical contribution:     [Darwin, C. R.] 1862. Notice on the Habits of the "Agricultural Ant" of Texas ["Stinging Ant" or "Mound-making Ant," Myrmica (Atta) malefaciens, Buckley]. By Gideon Lincecum, Esq., M.D. Communicated by Charles Darwin, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S. [Read 18 April 1861] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London (Zoology) 6: 29-31.   Text   Image   PDF
same agricultural attention as was bestowed upon the previous crop,—and so on year after year, as I know to be the case, in all situations where the ants' settlements are protected from graminivorous animals. In a second letter, Dr. Lincecum in reply to an inquiry from Mr. Darwin, whether he supposed that the ants plant seeds for the ensuing crop, says, I have not the slightest doubt of it. And my conclusions have not been arrived at from hasty or careless observation, nor from seeing the ants
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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
of Texas, attention was first called to the habits of this insect by Mr. Buckley in 1860,1 and by Dr. Lincecum, who sent an account of his observations to Mr. Darwin, by whom they were communicated to the Linn an Society in 1861. Five years later a paper was published in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia from the MS. of Dr. Lincecum. Lastly, in 1877 Mr. MacCook went to Texas expressly to study the habits of these insects, and he has recently embodied the
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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
'ant-rice' reappears within the same circle, and receives the same agricultural attention as was bestowed upon the previous crop and so on year after year, as I know to be the case, in all situations when the ant's settlements are protected from graminivorous animals. In a second letter Dr. Lincecum, in reply to an inquiry from Mr. Darwin whether he supposed that the ants plant seeds for the ensuing crop, says: I have not the slightest doubt of it. And my conclusions have not been arrived at from
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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
, that when some ants in a community have been killed by poison, the survivors avoid the poison: he, however, made no experiments to test this statement. The other main point on which his observations are defective has reference to a remarkable statement made by Lincecum in the most emphatic terms. This statement is that upon the surface of their disk the ants sow the seeds of a certain plant, called ant-rice, for the purpose of subsequently reaping a harvest of the grain. There is no doubt that
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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
increase of our knowledge are Messrs. Bates, Belt, M ller, Moggridge, Lincecum, MacCook, and Sir John Lubbock. From the fact that these naturalists conducted their observations in different parts of the world and on widely different species of ants, it is not surprising that their results should present many points of difference; for this only shows, as we might have expected, that different species of ants differ considerably in habits and intelligence. Therefore, in now drawing all these
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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
as many as seven. They are usually two to three inches wide at their origin, but in large nests may be as much as five. MacCook found no road longer than sixty feet, but Lincecum describes one of three hundred feet. Along these hard and level roads there is always passing, during the daytime of the harvesting season, a constant stream of ants those going from the nest being empty-handed, and those returning to it being laden with seeds. Of course the incoming ants, converging from all quarters
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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
into permanent prosperity through many perils. The following example is found in the unpublished Lincecum manuscripts. One day a new ant-city was observed to be located within ten or twelve yards of a long-established nest, a distance that the doctor thought would prove too near for peaceable possession for the agriculturals seem to pre-empt a certain range of territory around their formicary as their own, within which no intrusion is allowed. He therefore concluded to keep these nests under close
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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
concerning these insects to Mr. Moggridge,1 who studied them in the south of Europe, Dr. Lincecum,2 and Mr. MacCook,3 who studied them in Texas, and Colonel Sykes4 and Dr. Jerdon,5 who made some observations upon them in India. They also occur scattered over a great part of Europe and in Palestine, where they were clearly known to Solomon and other classical writers of antiquity,6 whose claim to accurate observation, although long disputed (owing to the authority of Huber), has now been amply
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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
traced these granaries to a depth of four feet below the surface of the ground, and believes, from the statements of a native peasant, that they, or at least the formicaries, extend to a depth of fifteen feet. As regards the care that the ants take of the gathered grain, Lincecum describes the same habit as Moggridge and Sykes describe viz., the sunning of wet seeds to [page] 106 ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE
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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
merely a rough and primitive way of communicating to fellow-workers the locality where their services are required. He says: Keeping these facts in mind, we have a key to the solution of the press-gang operations which Lincecum observed among the agriculturals, and which have been fully described in other species. In the absence of any common head or directory, and of all executive officers, a change of location or any other concerted movement must be carried forward by the willing co
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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
hammering oyster shells with stones, 481 Daphnia pulex, seeking light, especially yellow ray, 23 Darwin, Charles, on apparent intelligence of worms, 24; of oyster, 25; of snail, 27; Mr. Hague's letter to, on powers of communication in ants, 54-7; observations on ants keeping aphides, 60, 61; on ants making slaves, 64, 66, 67; communications of Lincecum to, on harvesting ants, 103, 107; on proportional size of ants' brain, 140; communication of M ller on [page] 505 INDEX
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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
intelligence of ants in surmounting obstacles, 135 Lever, Sir Ashton, his experiment on eccentricity of nest-building instinct, 295 Limpet, remembering locality, 28, 29 Lincecum, Dr., on harvesting ants, 97 and 103-7; carrying one another, 109 Lindsay, Dr. L., on birds dreaming, 312 Linns us, on swallows imprisoning sparrows, 318 Linnet, intelligence of in not flying against mirror, 311; trained, 312 Liparis chrysorrhaca, 238 Livingstone, Dr., on certain ants of Africa, 110; honey-guide, 315
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