Darwin from Descent of Man to Emotions bring Kew under his British Museum, Darwin commented that "I used to be ashamed of hating him so much, but now I will carefully cherish my hatred & contempt to the last days of my life". In October Hooker sent sun-dews and Venus fly-traps for Darwin's experiments, then was devastated when his bedridden mother died. In his hot-house Darwin experimented, giving such plants from around the world a variety of foods and poisons, and began writing "insectivorous Plants". "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals" proved very popular, selling over 5,000 copies, but an exhausted Darwin became a
Extinct animals from the Isle of Man and immobilise, any sheep which was pointed out" (W. Walter Gill). The following extract is believed to have been written by a Ms. A. L. J. Gosset; It continues ... It continues ... Manx horses also became extinct c. 1820–1830. Of them Thomas Quayle said, The Manx pig were known to the locals as 'purrs'. They had completely died long before Thomas Quayle wrote this about them; Four species of birds that once bred on the Isle of Man have gone extinct locally, of these the great auk is extinct worldwide. N.B. None of these animals were solely native to