RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1858.04.12]. Abstract of Livingstone, Missionary travels and researches in South Africa. CUL-DAR45.79. 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'.

Livingstone, David. 1857. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; including a sketch of Sixteen Years Residence in the interior of Africa, and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast; thence across the Continent, down the River Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean. London.


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Livingstone's Missionary Travels 1857. (Ch. 4)

p. 71 Elephants at Limpopo 12 ft high, further n. only 11 & still further N. only 9 ft — high. — So certain antelopes are smaller


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