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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of D. Barrington, Philosophical Transactions 57 (read 3 April 1767): 204. CUL-DAR45.33. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 2.2021, 10.2022. RN2

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'.

See another abstracts of Barrington in CUL-DAR84.2.157, CUL-DAR84.2.115 and CUL-DAR80.B49.

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1767 Phil. Trans. D. Barrington

p. 204. gives an account of trout & perch with crooked backs in certain lakes in Wales; with a remarkable protuberance on each side of the back of the Perch – about half the fish are crooked. –

Two lakes in Sweden, where the perch are hump-backed.

Old account of lake near Snowden with ~~one eye~~ trout with one eye blind;

Montalembert have given case of a pool with blind pike or blind in one eye l. eye is always the right –

Mem.. toco-toco of the Pampas.

~~Effect of habit~~

~~(5)~~ Var under Nature

Inheritance Ch I

Intention

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