RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Corse, Observations on the different species of Asiatic elephants, and their mode of dentition. CUL-DAR205.10.10. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 5.2023. 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-DAR205.10 contains notes on variation and varieties. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin.
Corse, John. 1799. Observations on the different species of Asiatic elephants, and their mode of dentition. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 89, issue 89 (December): 205-236.
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Phil Transact. 1799 p 206 — Mr Corse shows that even in same herd. some elephants are so large & long in trunk & different proportions from others, that they are called by different name, & considered as castes.— there are half bred ones.— The form of tusks is also so different, that they are called by different names.—
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[Quoted in Natural selection, (F1583) p. 119.]
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