RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Blainville, Ostéographie des mammifères. CUL-DAR45.31. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 10.2022. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR45 contains notes for Natural selection chap. 4 'Variation under nature'.
Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville. 1864. Ostéographie des mammifères, vol. 2. Pairs.
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De Blainville Ostéographie Genus Felis p. 57.
He shows how much the molar teeth of the Lion vary in diameter & adds "Les differences spécifiques que présente le système dentaires des Felis ne sont pas toujours aussi considérables que celles que nous venons de signaler chez les individus de Lion." &c. The diameter of their teeth vary as much as almost a third.—
Ch. IV
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