From:
Charles Wicksted
To:
Georgina Tollet
Date:
13 Mar [1870?]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 97
Summary:
Jury of fox-hunters report on hounds’ behaviour when catching fox. Fox never behaves like frightened dog.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Jury of fox-hunters report on hounds’ behaviour when catching fox. Fox never behaves like frightened dog.
Describes results of experiments on cobwebs, "neither spider or anything else had caused a line to disappear". Apologises for having to draw this conclusion as she had cheered him so in his work on species.
Thanks for Orchids.