RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1872-1874]. 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 (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 11.2021. RN2
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-DAR87-90 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man 2d ed. (1874-1877).
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Journal of Anat & Phys May 1872
p 489 Brown Sequard effect on offspring of cutting sympathetic nerve
Mot-mots Proc. Z. Soc. 1873 p 431
Brown-Séquard, Charles Édouard and Dupuy, Eugène. 1872. Hereditary transmission of acquired qualities. (Rev. Scientifique, 1871-1872, p. 668). Journal of Anatomy and Physiology 6 no. 10: 489. [CUL-DAR.LIB.PER-U515] PDF 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."
Salvin, Osbert. 1873. On the tail-feathers of Momotus. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 41 no. 2: 429-433. [CUL-DAR.LIB.PER-U1402] PDF
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