RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1870-1871]. Draft of Descent 2, Chap. 12 Fishes, folio 17. CUL-DAR110.B101r. 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: 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). See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here.
Draft is in the hand of Ebenezer Norman with corrections by Darwin. The text of this draft corresponds to Descent 2: 18 and 16.
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Chap. 12 Fishes.
in preserved specimens) but in & by its form, is that given by Dr. Günther26*(24) of a pipe-fish, which with its reddish streaming filaments can is hardly be distinguishable from the sea-weed to which it clings with its prehensile tail. In some few cases splendid colours may perhaps have bee the directly arisen, directly resulted, as with animals in the lowest classes, from if from the nature of the tissues acted on, and of the surrounding conditions, without the aid of natural selection. The splendid Gold-fish (Cyprinus auratus), judging from the analogy of the golden ((a) text) variety of the common carp, is a case in point, perhaps, appeared suddenly as it now exists; but it is more probable that its colours were may have been intensified through man'sartificial selection, as [text excised]
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