RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1841.09-1842.08. Of the three Chimpanzee two of very different sizes. CUL-DAR205.10.35. 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.
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Aug Sept/1841/ — Of the three Chimpanzee, two of very different sizes, yet with exactly the same face, & ears — their resemblance Hunt says two that were formerly in garden — A third has a very different look & is said to come from a part of coast a thousand miles off — See to this —
Sept. 15. The one has rounder, & flatter ears — a paler coloured face, less hair over brows. — brows smoother & less rugged— though fully as much arched = which look like that of the races of Negroes =
Aug:/42/ This odd one came from Sierra Leone or some place where all have come from —Eden — but perhaps from high up the country. =
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