RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1851.10. Woodward speaks of aberrant groups being the oldest. CUL-DAR205.5.133. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 1.2023. 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-DAR205.5 contains notes on the principle of divergence, transitional organs and instincts.
The brown crayon number '11' indicates that this document was filed by Darwin in his portfolio for the subject of Divergence.
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Oct. /51/. Woodward speaks of aberrant groups being the oldest (& consequently the widest distributed) As aberrant are fragments preserved of the most exterminated portions of the series, this may be true.— C. D.—
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