RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Burnes, Travels in Bokhara, etc. CUL-DAR205.7.103. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 3.2023. RN2

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-DAR205.7 contains notes on hybridism, sterility and pigeons.


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p. 154 is assured that a strong & useful cross is made between the Bactrian camel with two humps & the common or one humped camel or dromedary; the issue have but one hump. —

Remarkably distinct as these 2 cases in structure & constitution.

Burnes Travels in Bokhara Vol. 3 Q

[Quoted in Natural selection, p. 437.]

Desmarest p 425. Every Male offspring sterile

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Remark on crosses certain Buffon & Burnes allude to Nott & Gliddon p. 380— then see what Eversman says &c.

This case worth giving from remarkable diversity in constitution of Hybrids the 2 species —

p 3 Dict Class. p 451 Buffon on cross of Camels—

Remember cross for some different constitution

Hue.

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Burnes, Alexander. Travels into Bokhara; being the Account of a Journey from India to Cabool, Tartdry, and Persia; also, Narrative of a Voyage on the Indus, from the Sea to Lahore, with Présentés from the King of Great Britain; performed under the Orders of the Supreme Government of India, in the Years 1831, 1832, and 1833. 3 vols., London, 1835 or 1839 new ed. ix, 90.

Desmarest, Anselm Gaëtan. 1820. Mammalogie ou description des espèces des Mammifères. 1ère, 2e Partie. Paris: Veuve Agasse. PDF

Morton, Samuel George. 1854. Types of mankind: or, ethnological researches based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races, and upon their natural, geographical, philological and Biblical history: illustrated by selections from the inedited papers of Samuel George Morton and by additional contributions from L. Agassiz, W. Usher, and H. S. Patterson. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, Grambo & Co. [Darwin Library-CUL] PDF


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