From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
[before 27 Mar 1879]
Source of text:
Nature , 27 March 1879, p. 481
Summary:
In reply to a query [in Nature 19 (1879): 433] CD reports that vessels full of water were kept on the deck of a ship to discourage rats from gnawing holes in the ship’s water casks.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project