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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Acerbi, Travels Through Sweden, Finland, and Lapland, to the North Cape, in the years 1798 and 1799. CUL-DAR205.6.33. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 11.2021. 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-DAR205.6 contains notes on embryology [pigeons].

Joseph Acerbi. 1802. Travels Through Sweden, Finland, and Lapland, to the North Cape, in the years 1798 and 1799. In 2 volumes. London.

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Acerbis Travels to N. Cape Vol. II p 192. Some of female Rein-deer bear young annually (not the Pigs??), some biennially & receive distinct Lapland names; but do not appear to be distinct races. [insertion:] Embryology

p. 193 The ash-coloured hinds have fawns red at birth with stripe down their back - the red grows darker & is lost in autumn. Some rein-deer a white with ash-coloured spots; these always have white fawns.

p. 201. The wild Rein-deer larger; the bucks sometimes cross with the tame & are intermediate in size between the wild & tame

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The spots on common Fallow deer effect of change of Hair

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Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)