RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [ny].09.08. Tomato / Draft of Descent, vol. 2. CUL-DAR209.6.164. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2022. 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-DAR209.6 contains materials for Darwin's book Movement in plants (1880).
Draft is in the hand of Ebenezer Norman with corrections by Darwin. The text of the draft corresponds to Descent 2: 287.
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"blanc moins pur, les raies ayant moins de largeur et les taches moins de diamétre."*(44) The two sexes of the allied Felis mitis also differ, in but even in a less degree, the general hues of the female being rather paler than in the male, with the spots less black. The marine Carnivora, on the other hand some of which present remarkable sexual differences in structure, sometimes differ much in considerably in colour, & they present, as we have already seen, other remarkable sexual differences. Thus the male of the Otaria nigrescens of the southern hemisphere is of a rich brown shade above; whilst the female, who acquires her adult colour tints earlier in life than the male, [text excised], the young of both sexes being
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