RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of St-Hilaire, Description des mammifères, etc. CUL-DAR205.5.138. 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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Archives du Museum d'. Hist. Nat. Tom IV
p. 38 Is. Geoffroy St. Hilaire refers much to his parallel "classification parallélique"—
Old world & American monkeys ought to be in two parallel series: the highest of both series nearest man at top of the parallel series. Says Brullé has applied it to Entomology Dumeril & Bibron to Erpetology. Milne Edwards ↘
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(Annales des Sc. Nat Feb 1844) has recently applied it.—
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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