RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. CUL-DAR16.293. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Text prepared and edited by John van Wyhe. 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.

Candolle, Augustine Pyramus de. 1824-1825. Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis, sive, Enumeratio contracta ordinum generum specierumque plantarum huc usque cognitarium, juxta methodi naturalis, normas digesta. vols. 1-2. Paris: Treuttel & Würtz. [Darwin Library-Down] vol. 1 PDF vol. 2 PDF


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295 [+] 195 [=] 490    295,000 [÷] 1005 [=] 293
195,000 [÷] 917 [=] 212

(Asa Gray)

97 [+] 65 [=] 162    1005 [+] 917 [=] 1922 | 162/1922 fraction of spec. having vars. of any kind = about 1/12.
of 490 common species 71 present vars
   71/490 = about 1/7

 1922 [-] 490 [=] 1432 not common    162 [=] 71 [=] 91    so that of uncommon spec    91/1423 have vars = about 1/16    & 71/490 common spec have vars

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1005 [-] 140 [=] 865 [-] 120 [=] 745    917 [-] 361 [=] 556 [+] 140 [=] 696 [+] 120 [=] 816

865 [-] 696 [=] 196 diff    816 [-] 745 [=] 71

1005 [-] 865 [=] 140 — 917 [+] 140 [=] 1057 [-] 865 [=] 192
865 [-] 696 [=] (169)
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361 species of genera of one in each.

 


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