RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of MacLeay, Remarks on the Comparative Anatomy of certain Birds of Cuba, etc. CUL-DAR205.5.74. 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.
W. S. MacLeay. 1833. Remarks on the Comparative Anatomy of certain Birds of Cuba, with a view to their respective Places in the System of Native or to their Relations with other Animals. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 16: 1-46.
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Lin. Trans 16/p. 13. Macleay on Birds of Cuba, observes. "in those groups, in which the variation of an organ is at its maximum, that organ is of less consequence as a principle of classification:
do. p. 14. number of vertebrae, different in dog & wolf in camel & dromedary & in horse & quagga
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