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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Linneaus, Amoenitates academicæ. CUL-DAR205.1.21. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2021. 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-DAR205.1 contains notes on rudimentary organs.

The brown crayon number '10' indicates that this document was filed by Darwin in his portfolio for the subject of Rudimentary & abortive organs.

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Amœnitates academicæ Vol. 4th p. 50 Canis Familiaris, Lindecrintz. Mammae in Fæmina decem, quorum sex in abdominæ, 4 in pectore. At in masculo mammae tantum sex in abdominae, in pectore vero nullœ. Curious way of abortion. illustrates real structure in some Lemurs.

p 55. When water bitch fertilise by smooth dogs, only those puppies are crispati which are female: in reciprocal cross, when smooth bitch fertilise by hairy water dogs, only the male puppies are hairy.— This happens when gallinæ crispæ are united with smott poultry.—

[in margin:] Inheritance

p 172. Oris. I Palmœrus.— sheep have two mammae et prœtore duo papillæ spuriæ ad basin anticam.

Linnaeus, Carolus (Carl von Linné). 1759. Somnus plantarum. Handwritten English translation by Hensleigh Wedgwood. (Doctoral dissertation of Peter Petersson Bremer under the supervision of Linnaeus. 22pp.) In idem. 1749-1790. Amoenitates academicae: seu dissertationes variæ physicæ, medicæ, botanicæ antehac seorsim editæ nunc collectæ et auctæ cum tabulis aeneis. 10 vols. Stockholm: Laurentius Salvius, vol. 4, pp. 333-350. CUL-DAR209.14.167 Text

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