RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1847.09. Falconer showed me splendid series of Radius & Ulna from Camel. CUL-DAR205.1.54. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2021. RN1
NOTE: The brown crayon number '10' indicates that this document was filed by Darwin in his portfolio for the subject of Rudimentary & abortive organs.
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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Sept. 47/ Falconer showed me splendid series of Radius & Ulna from Camel, where represented by two holes at each end, to Camel where Sivatterium, Giraffe, where the middle was like a ribbon of bone glued on – to Ox – Now a fossil Giraffe has same ribbon, so that abortive part, here constant in different fauna in different time (nevertheless perhaps variable in itself.)
This is against law of abortion of any part not useful.
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