The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. [Note on Instinct.] CUL-DAR88.85. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 9.2021. 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-DAR 87-90 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man 2d ed. (1874-1877).

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Circumstances having given to the Bee its instinct is not less wonderful than man his intellect.

Lyell has seen a little dog go to the assistance & bite a big dog which was fast struggling with another large dog his companion

Descent - Affection & [marking]

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Monkeys Ogleby see Zool. Soc 1838 remember with distress their companions - 2 a blue Gibbon whose companion had been dead about two months saw a black spider monkey brought it at opposite end of house & commenced a most lamentable howls & & was not comforted until the Keeper took it in his arms & carried to see.

Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)