RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 12.1844. 'Forbes has thought about variability, being effect of conditions'. CUL-DAR45.58. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Kees Rookmaaker, corrections by John van Wyhe 11.2010. 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'.
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Dec /44
Forbes has thought about variability, being effect of conditions: he thinks a critical genus (i.e a variable one) is at all times & places variable.
Ch 4
Remark that all creatures most useful to man the most variable — (& not effect of domestication & he objected with oysters to my view of their use depending on capacity to undergo much change. (but the Bee is good case of very slight cariability. of most useful animal.).
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