RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Vestiges of Creation. CUL-DAR205.1.37. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Kees Rookmaaker 2017, corrections and editing 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-DAR205.1 contains notes on rudimentary organs.


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Vestiges of Nat. Hist. of Creation

n. 280 Quotes Buckinghams Travels amongst the Arabs. for case of Arabian family, which had quite black children. —

Lords Popular Physiology ought to be read.

Another notion that "rudimentary organs are in process of development, will not do — are man's mammae in process of development?

[Chambers, Robert.] 1847. Vestiges of the natural history of creation. 6th ed. London: John Churchill. CUL-DAR.LIB.110 PDF [1st ed.: Text ]


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