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Mimosa pudica. Dec. 1' 77.

1 pinned open— 1 bent over, 2 partially asleep, Cots almost vertical — little shoots extending slightly beyond cots

Temp. of grass 36 F.

put out 8° 30 sky moderately clear & calm taken in at 10° for it was clouded over.

Dec. 12th I find in 1 pot that the spe. [illeg] carded open on cork not injured — 1 bent to one side killed— in 2d pot 1 on cork not injured & one bent over killed

(Used)

Dec 12 white thread means nothing done to

14' placed exposed for 2° at night almost or quite frosty apparently no injury.—

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in the races of our domestic animals or between in natural varieties, they have used this fact as a strong argument that they all are all descended from the same a common progenitor thus endowed, & that they should consequently be all considered as belonging to the same species.

The same argument may be applied with much force & truth to the races of man.

As it is impossible that the numerous minute points of resemblance between the several races of man in bodily structure & mental faculties should have been independently acquired, they must be due to

[Descent 1: 233: "As it is improbable that the numerous and unimportant points of resemblance between the several races of man in bodily structure and mental faculties (I do not here refer to similar customs) should all have been independently acquired, they must have been inherited from progenitors who were thus characterised."]