RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Henrietta Emma Darwin n.d. Abstract of Livingstone expedition to the Zambesi, 1865. CUL-DAR205.11.128. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 5.2021. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR205.1 contains notes on rudimentary organs.
Livingstone, David. 1857. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; including a sketch of Sixteen Years Residence in the interior of Africa, and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast; thence across the Continent, down the River Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean. London.
Darwin recorded reading and abstracting this work in his Books Read / Books to be Read notebook. Text CUL-DAR128.-: "1858 Ap. 12. Livingstone Travels (the best Travels I ever read)"
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Livingstone Expedition to the Zambesi 1865 P. 209 gives a conclusive account of a bird called the Honey guide which leads persons to bees nests. "They are quite as anxious to lure the stranger to the bees' hive as other birds are to draw him away from their own nests." L. asks "How is it that every member of its family has learned that all men, white and black are fond of honey?"
Instinct acquired since man inhabited Africa.
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