RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Owen says the one almost abortive & apparently useless tusk. CUL-DAR205.5.206. 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: 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. See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here.


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Owen says the one, almost abortive & apparently useless tusk in the lower jaw of Mastodon, is gradation of Dinotherium lower jaws.


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