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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Edinburgh Review (October 1851). CUL-DAR205.5.134. 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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Eding Review. October 1851. "It is not unlikely that several Arian. (Indo-Germanic) ~~words~~ numerals go back as far as the times when the Arian & Semitic families were not yet separated.

p 302. même French.

meisme Old French

medesme Provencal

smetessme Older Provencal

semet ipsissimus Latin

Lineal descent

p. 73.

p. 134.

p. 151.

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p 173

p. 243,4,6

p 314

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p. 364

3 first columns are co-descendant [table not transcribed]

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Nov— 1851.— Like, species, taking all Languages, fossil & recent, some as French, Spanish, & Italian are descended from Latin, & the steps can be traced in the Provençal & Romance Languages, but most of the others as Greek, Latin, Sanscript, Persian, ~~can~~ are all descended from some common unknown source; & this latter ought to be known, to know the intermediate forms.— they are in same state as French & Italian, if Latin & Provençal were unknown. —

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