RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Davy. CUL-DAR205.11.69. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and John van Wyhe, edited by John van Wyhe 12.2022. RN2

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.

Presumably Georgina Alderson [II] (1827-1899).

[69]

Sir H. Davy alludes to nest of Java swallows being secretion of Bird.

Georgina thinks too much about Pointers & domestic instincts — Try & shorten.—

[69]

[sketches?]

***Davy, Humphry. 1830. Consolations in travel, or the last days of a philosopher. Edited by John Davy. London: John Murray. Text [1882 inventory]

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