RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Brown-Séquard and Dupuy, Hereditary transmission of acquired qualities and Salvin, On the tail-feathers of Momotus. CUL-DAR89.155. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 11.2021. 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).

Darwin cited this in Descent 2d ed., p. 60. n94: "I allude to Dr. Brown-Séquard's observations on the transmitted effect of an operation causing epilepsy in guinea-pigs, and likewise more recently on the analogous effects of cutting the sympathetic nerve in the neck. I shall hereafter have occasion to refer to Mr. Salvin's interesting case of the apparently inherited effects of mot-mots biting off the barbs of their own tail-feathers. See also on the general subject 'Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication,' vol. ii., pp. 22-24."

Brown-Séquard and Dupuy. 1872. Hereditary transmission of acquired qualities. (Rev. Scientifique, 1871-1872, p. 668). Journal of Anatomy and Physiology 6 (May): 489.

Osbert Salvin. 1873. On the tail-feathers of Momotus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society, part 2: 429-433.

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