RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. In Black horses being brown & grey horses being dark when foals. CUL-DAR205.5.161. 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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In Black horses being brown & grey horses being dark when foals — in in silver grey rabbit being black & Himalaya rabbit being black we see some sort of parallel to changes to embryological law of greater resemblance of young birds—
How curious it would be to observe plumage of young poultry.—
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Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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