RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1848.11. Species are forms connected / verso 'A Tale of Polytax & Shortshanks Short Shanks' p. 2. CUL-DAR185.110ii. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 11.2022. RN3

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-DAR185 contains Correspondence, largely with Darwin family members and drafts of Dust, Geol. Soc. Jrnl., 1846.

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Species are forms which [are] not [text excised], & are presumed not to be connected by intermediate forms at the present day period, & which are not actually known to have descended from same parent stock — It is further presumed that left freely to nature that they wd breed together & rear quite fertile offspring. —

The first paragraph is really important point, & I may add will be agreed with by those whose judgment is come at by actual work.

Nov /48/

[110iiv]

['A Tale of Polytax & Shortshanks Short Shanks' p. 2]

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