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Mem Chiloe Sow who carried from all parts straws to make its nest. Pigs & Elephants (both Pachyderms) much intellect.

mem: Yarrell's story of wheel horse in drays, scraping against cornice stone to cause friction

Athenaeum 1838. p. 652. Dr Daubeny on the direction of mountain chains in N. American

[Charles Daubeny. On the geology and thermal springs of North America. 1838. Athenaeum, no. 567 (8 September): 652-653.]

Fear probably is connected with habitual stopping of breath to hear any sound - attitude of attention. So intimately connected in passion with sending force to muscles that as my grandfather remark, a tired man. involuntarily feels angry, when brain is pumping force to legs & body, & especially, when the whole body, being failed, & not to any particular muscle

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Sept. 8th I am tempted to say that those actions which have been found necessary for long generation (as friendship to fellow animals in social animals) [insertion: Descent of man] are those which are good & consequently give pleasure, & not as Paleys rule is those that on long run [insertion: Moral sense] will do good - alter will in all such cases to have & origin as well as rule will be given

Mitchell Australia Vol I, p 292 "Dogs learn sooner to take kangaroos than emu, although young dogs get sadly torn in conflicts with the former. But it is one thing for a swift dog to overtake an emu, &c"

[Thomas Livingstone Mitchell. 1838. Three expeditions into the interior of Eastern Australia, etc. In 2 volumes. London: T. & W. Boone.]