RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. I want all the small orders added up in all six volumes in one mass. CUL-DAR15.2.54a. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 3.2023. 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 volume CUL-DAR15.2 contains calculations and tables for Darwin's 'big book' Natural Selection F1583.

Decandolle Prodromus, vols. 2, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14. This was used in Table III of Natural selection, p. 153.


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11 sp & up [calculations not transcribed]

10 sp & down [calculations not transcribed] This is last done (Q)

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Decandolle. —

I want all the small orders added up in all six volumes in one mass. —

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Also a general summary of all species in all six volumes.— You will find on two pages a summary of numbers of the several Large orders

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& divide the no' of species having vars. by the number of species, &, the no' of varieties themselves by vars the species having vars.


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