RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Asa Gray / 2d Edit / 1856 / Omitting Salix & Nat[uralised] plants. CUL-DAR16.127. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2021. 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-DAR16 contains calculations and tables for Darwin's 'big book' Natural Selection F1583.

Related note in: CUL-DAR16.124b-126.


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(1856) (2d Edit) (Asa Gray) Omitting Salix & Nat. plants

Genera with 5 sp & upwards

no. of sp. 1136

sp. having vars (small type) [calculation not transcribed]

Genera with 4, 3, 2, & 1 sp.

no. of species 917

vars small type [calculation not transcribed]

Proport. of var to sp.

sp. having vars 74

no. of vars, small type [calculation not transcribed]

do 34

no of var small type [calculation not transcribed]

no. of species 1136

Big type vars [calculation not transcribed]

no of sp. 917

Big type vars [calculation not transcribed]

This ought to have been species with big-type var vide corrected calculation

1136 Little & Big Type var (not sp. having vars) [calculation not transcribed]

917 do [calculation not transcribed]

All correct – See for species in the 2 columns corrected calc.


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