RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1858.04.12]. Abstract of Livingstone, Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, etc. CUL-DAR205.11.78. 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.
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. CUL-DAR128.-.: "1858 Ap. 12. Livingstone Travels (the best Travels I ever read)"
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Livingstone Missionary Travels 1857. p. 154. — Many solitary eggs are dropped by African Ostrich — lying forsaken all over country, — attributes it to "being averse to risking spot for nest. — "often lays her eggs in nest of other hen. — 20-25 eggs usually fd in nest, sometimes as many as 45. — Ch. 10.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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