RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1877?].10.31. Lycopodium / Draft of Descent, vol. 1. CUL-DAR209.4.240. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 9.2022. 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-DAR209.4 contains materials for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880).

Draft of Descent in the hand of Ebenezer Norman with corrections by Darwin.

"Norman, Ebenezer, 1835/6-1923. 1854- Schoolmaster at Down and from 1856 and many years thereafter copyist for CD. 1856 Aug. 17 First payment for copying in CD's Account book (Down House MS). Many thereafter. CCD6:444. 1857 CD to Hooker, "I am employing a laboriously careful Schoolmaster". CCD6:443. 1858 CD to Hooker, "I can get the Down schoolmaster to do it [i.e. transcribe] on my return". CCD7:130. 1871 Banker's clerk in Deptford." (Paul van Helvert & John van Wyhe, Darwin: A Companion, 2021)

The other fragment is in CUL-DAR209.4.246.


[240]

Lycopodium Dark

Further dot Oct 31

[data not transcribed]

Used

[240v]

Chap V[text excised]

their legs somewhat st[text excised]

inhabit loftily regions v[text excised]

larged; & those who cons[text excised]

may have the cavities [text excised]

longed somewhat incre[text excised]

ture, consequently sligh[text excised]

civilized nations, the r[text excised]

from lessened use,— the [text excised]

different muscles ser[text excised]

emotions,— & the incre[text excised]

from greater intellec[text excised]

altogether produced [text excised]

on their in their ger[text excised]

contrast comparison with that of sav[text excised]

possible that increas[text excised]

[text excised]

[Descent 1: 247: "Men who habitually live in canoes, may have their legs somewhat stunted; those who inhabit lofty regions have their chests enlarged; and those who constantly use certain sense-organs have the cavities in which they are lodged somewhat increased in size, and their features consequently a little modified. With civilised nations, the reduced size of the jaws from lessened use, the habitual play of different muscles serving to express different emotions, and the increased size of the brain from greater intellectual activity, have together produced a considerable effect on their general appearance in comparison with savages.52 It is also possible that increased bodily stature, with no corresponding increase in the size of the brain, may have given to some races (judging from the previously adduced cases of the rabbits) an elongated skull of the dolichocephalic type.
52 See Prof. Schaaffhausen, translat. in 'Anthropological Review, Oct. 1868, p. 429."]


Return to homepage

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

File last updated 18 August, 2023