RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Leach, A tabular view of the external characters of four classes of animals, etc. CUL-DAR205.11.59. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2022. 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-DAR205.11 contains notes on Instinct, change in habit.
Leach, William Elford. 1815. A tabular view of the external characters of four classes of animals, etc. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 11: 306-400.
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Linnean Transaction vol. XI (1815) p. 393
Dr. Leach gives on authority of Sir J. Banks case of web-spinning spider which cd not spin or spin most imperfectly, from having only 3 legs. (ie had lost 5 legs) which was seen carrying fly, which it had caught by hunting.—
(only temporary for it recovered legs subsequently to moult.)
Ch. 10
[Natural selection, p. 517: "First for a few cases of variation which have struck me: a spider which had been crippled & could not spin its web, changed its habit from compulsion into a hunter,—which is the regular habit of one large group of spiders.1
1 Leach on authority of Sir J. Banks in Transact. Linn. Soc. vol. (see vol. II (1815), 393.)"]
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