Kane's "Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin." Philadelphia, 1856.) He says also that he found a frozen fox curled up with his nose buried in his tail.
N.B.It is just possible that the latter fact is stated by M'Clintock, not by Dr.Kane.
(269/4.

The final passage is a postscript by Mr.W.E.Darwin bearing on Mr.Lawson Tait's idea of the respirator function of the fox's tail.) LETTER 270.

TO G.J.ROMANES.

Down, July 12th, 1875.
I am correcting a second edition of "Variation under Domestication," and find that I must do it pretty fully.

Therefore I give a short abstract of potato graft-hybrids, and I want to know whether I did not send you a reference about beet.