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Mem Chiloe pi Sow, who carried from all parts straw 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. D^r Daubeny⁹⁹ on the direction of mountain chains in N. America

Fear probably is connected with habitual stopping of breath to hear any sound.— attitude of attention

So intimately connected is passion with sending force to muscles, that in my grandfather remark, a tired man. involuntarily feels angry, when brain is pumping force to legs & body, & especially, when to whole body, being failed, & not to any particular muscle

99. Daubeny, Dr. [Charles G.], "On the Geology and Thermal Springs of North America," The Athenaeum, 1838, p. 652.

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Sept. 8^th. I am tempted to say that those actions which have been found necessary for long generation, (as friendship to fellow animals in social animals) are those which are good & consequently give pleasure, & not as Paleys¹⁰⁰ rule is those that on long run will do good.— alter will in all cases to have & origin as well as rule will be given.—

Descent of Man

Moral Sense

Mitchell Australia Vol I, p 292¹⁰¹ "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, &

100. See Mackintosh, James, Dissertation on the Progress of Ethical Philosophy. Chiefly during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. With a Preface by W. Whewell, 2nd ed., Black, Edinburgh, 1837, p. 280: "[Paley's] chapter [in Moral and Political Philosophy] on what he calls the Law of Honour is unjust . . . because it supposes honour to allow what it does not forbid. . . . He considers it 'a system of rules constructed by people of fashion. . . .'" In The Descent of Man, Murray, London, 1871, Vol. 1, p. 99, Darwin discusses at some length the Law of Honour. In general, it is conformance to expectations of one's peers.
101. Mitchell, Thomas Livingstone, Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia; with Descriptions of the Recently Explored Region of Australia Felix, and of the Present Colony of New South Wales, 2nd. ed., 2 vols., Boone, London, 1839, Vol. 1, p. 295.