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.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Thinks most monkeys would become habituated to alcohol if they could get it.
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.