RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Collingwood, Rambles of a naturalist. CUL-DAR81.128. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 2.2022. 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 volumes CUL-DAR80-86 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man (1871).
Darwin received the book from Collingwood in March 1868. (CUL-DAR161.214)
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Lepidoptera
Rambles of a naturalist by Cuthbert Collingwood 1868 p. 182.
A dead butterfly "pinned upon a conspicuous twig will often arrest an insect of the same species in its headlong flight, & bring it down within easy reach of the net, especially if it be of the opposite sex." p.
p 183. The specimens of butterflies were often injured which he attributes partly to their frequent battles; they "appear to be incited by the greatest ferocity & whirl round each other (1) (2) with the greatest rapidity." [Quoted in Descent 1: 387.]
[Darwin cited this in Descent 1: 386, n1: "For the Bornean Butterflies see C. Collingwood, 'Rambles of a Naturalist,' 1868, p. 183."]
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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