The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

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 (The Complete Work of Charles 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'.

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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

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: John Murray.

Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)