 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1843 - 494 pages
...Journal has been published, and we there find a record of the blood-sucker being caught in the fact. ' The Vampire-bat,' says Mr. Darwin, in that part of...doubted in England : I was therefore fortunate in being present when one* was actually caught on a horse's back. We were bivouacking late one evening,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 534 pages
...niuïii • Orlando di Lasso, and was married to her. He dit-vi Prague in 1G15, aged sixty-three. ' The Vampire-bat,' says Mr. Darwin, in that part of...doubted in England : I was therefore fortunate in being present when one* \vas actually caught on a horse's back. We were bivouacking late one evening,... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1846 - 396 pages
...appeared also to recover from any injury much sooner than those of our English breed. The Vampire bat is often the cause of much trouble, by biting the...doubted in England ; I was therefore fortunate in being present when one (Desmodus d'orbignyi, Wat.) was actually caught on a horse's back. We were bivouacking... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1846 - 716 pages
...appeared also to recover from any injury much sooner than those of our English breed. The Vampire bat is often the cause of much trouble, by biting the...horses on their withers. The injury is generally not BO much owing to the loss of blood, as to the inflammation which the pressure of the saddle afterwards... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - Science - 1876 - 508 pages
...blood-sucking habit has been fully established by the testimony of Mr. Darwin.* He tells us: " The vampire bat is often the cause of much trouble, by biting the...saddle afterwards produces. The whole circumstance having been lately doubted in England, I was therefore fortunate in being present, when one (Desmodus... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1863 - 832 pages
...adventures when travelling on horseback in the neighbourhood of Eio Janeiro, says : — " The vampire bat is often the cause of much trouble by biting the horses on their withers. The injury is not so much owing to the loss of blood as to the inflammation which the pressure of the saddle afterwards... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Anatomy, Comparative - 1871 - 524 pages
...along the intestine. Mr. Darwin* thus speaks of the habits of Demiodus IfOrbignyi : " The Vampire Bat is often the cause of much trouble by biting the horses...been doubted in England. I was therefore fortunate in being present when one was actually caught on a horse's back. We were bivouacking late one evening... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Anatomy, Comparative - 1872 - 442 pages
...the intestine. Mr. Darwin * thus speaks of the habits of. Desmodus jy Orbignyi : " The Vampire Bat is often the cause of much trouble by biting the horses...the inflammation which the pressure of the saddle afterward produces. The whole circumstance has lately been doubted in England, I was therefore fortunate... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Beagle Expedition - 1873 - 552 pages
...appeared also to recover from any injury much sooner than those of our English breed. The Vampire bat is often the cause of much trouble, by biting the...withers. The injury is generally not so much owing to flu- loss of blood, as to the inflammation which the pressure of the saddle afterwards produces. The... | |
 | Thomas Rymer Jones - Mammals - 1873 - 500 pages
...much trouble by biting horses on their withers. The inflammation is generally not so much owing to loss of blood as to the inflammation, which the pressure of the saddle afterwards produces. We were bivouacking late one evening near Coquimbo, in Chili, •when my servant, noticing that one... | |
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The Vampire bat is often the cause of much trouble, by biting the horses on their withers. The injury is generally not so much owing to the loss of blood, as to the inflammation which the pressure of the saddle afterwards produces. The whole circumstance... 
