RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Scrope Days of Salmon Fishing. CUL-DAR82.B27. 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 cited this in Descent 2: 3, n5: "Another experienced observer (Scrope's 'Days of Salmon Fishing,' p. 60) remarks that the male would, if he could, keep, like the stag, all other males away."
William Scrope. 1843. Days and nights of salmon fishing in the Tweed: With a short account of the natural history and habits of the salmon. London.
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p. 60 the male salmon wd keep if it could all other males away, like the male Hare would if it could. - Mr Crerar's good authority.
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Scrope Days of Salmon Fishing
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