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DCP-LETT-11132

From:
Warren Maude Moorsom
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 234
Summary:

In Descent [1: 12] CD discusses intoxication among animals. South African elephants reportedly eat a plant that makes them wild.

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DCP-LETT-11134

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Warren Maude Moorsom
Date:
11 Sept [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 385a
Summary:

Thinks most monkeys would become habituated to alcohol if they could get it.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11137

From:
Warren Maude Moorsom
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 235
Summary:

Pleased with CD’s interest in temperance. Can he quote CD? Sorry the elephant story is a myth. It fits his argument for temperance: a passion for alcohol is natural [primitive]. Only the morally developed can resist. Moral development will take a long time. Thus education cannot cure alcoholism now. Thus public sale of alcohol must be outlawed. Although he is a follower of J. S. Mill and Herbert Spencer he has been forced to this conclusion.

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DCP-LETT-11214

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

DCP-LETT-11216A

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Warren Maude Moorsom
Date:
29 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 146: 385b
Summary:

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.

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