RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Catalogue of Mammals in British Museum: 128 & 139. CUL-DAR205.10.71. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles 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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Who in Skins cd detect the differences of individuals of same race—. In Catalogue of Mammals in British Museum (1843) marvelous how many species have variations in size & colour, & markings of colour.

Analogy wd lead one to suppose other variations.

p. 128 Irish Rabbit! Athenaeum Journ. 1837. No

p. 139. Welsh Squirrel — Cambrian Quarterly Mag 1836.

English Fox (a) with Black (B) with white tip to tail

3 Keep & look to

Try 1847 No

Gray, John Edward. 1843-1852. List of the specimens of Mammalia in the collection of the British Museum. London: By order of the Trustees. 3 vols. in 1 binding. CUL-DAR.LIB.68 PDF


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