RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Emma Darwin. [1870-1871]. Draft of Descent 1: 209. CUL-DAR111.A70v. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 1.2023. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volumes CUL-DAR108-111 contain material for Darwin's book Forms of flowers (1877).

The text of the draft corresponds to Descent 1: 209.


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in the condition under which

is in some respects especially curious. The Monotremata have the proper milk-secreting glands but no nipples; & as these animals stand at the very base of the mam:

that the earliest prog


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