From:
Warren Maude Moorsom
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 236
Summary:
Sends extract reporting elephants that get drunk on a plant.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Sends extract reporting elephants that get drunk on a plant.
His father thanks WMM for his letter about the elephant case [see 11214]. If the story is true, CD thinks that the fruit must contain some alkaloid such as that in Indian hemp.