The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 11.1844. [Notes on reading Vestiges]. CUL-DAR205.5.108. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe. 9.2019. Corrections by Christine Chua. RN2

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-DAR205.5 contains notes on the principle of divergence, transitional organs and instincts.

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Nov/:—/44/. After the "Vestiges of Nat Hist Creation", I see it will be necessary to advert to Quinary System, because he brings it to show that Lamarck's willing (& consequently my selection) must be erroneous — I had better rest my defence on few English, sound anatomical naturalists assenting & hardly any foreign.— Advert to this subject, after Chapter on classification, & then show, from our ignorance of comparative value of groups, source of error—

Explanation of numbers from elements.—

Difficulties in classification. Myself on cirripedes— Milne Edwards & Dana. a Feather wd turn Balance

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