RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Zoolog Soc. saw hybrid of Bonnet & Rhesius monkey. CUL-DAR205.7.84. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 3.2023. 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-DAR205.7 contains notes on hybridism, sterility and pigeons.
The brown crayon number '16' indicates that this document was filed by Darwin in his portfolio for the subject of Hybridism: prepotency. See CUL-DAR205.7.87
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Zoolog Soc. saw hybrid of Bonnet & Rhesius monkey — one old female Bonnet preferred another any other male to its own.
The monkeys repeatedly & most freely copulate but most easily produce young.
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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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