RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1842.02. Mr Crawfurd says he once had one of the Northern Elephants. CUL-DAR205.10.38. 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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Feb. 1842: = Mr Crawford says he once had one of the Northern Elephants from the unhealthy flats at foot of Himalaya.—They are one or two feet lower smaller & less courageous; their feet are apt to be ill-formed, with irregular toes, which is considered a great "point" in the elephant — their heads ill-shaped & and less concave & whole bodies not so shapely — Hence Mr Cort's contract of their not coming from above a certain Lat: — interesting facts, struggle solely against external nature & not much selection of any peculiar forms.— (Dr Royle doubts about feet)
[Quoted in Natural selection, (F1583) p. 119.]
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