RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Latreille, Mémoires sur divers sujets de l'histoire naturelle des insects. CUL-DAR45.91. 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'.

Latreille, Pierre André. 1819. Mémoires sur divers sujets de l'histoire naturelle des insects, de géographie ancienne et de chronologie. Paris.


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(Ch 4)

I see in Latreilles memoir position of eyes varies differs wonderfully in Spiders & sometimes 6 & generally 8

This bears on Blackwall fact of variation of eyes —

Law of coherent var. Varies in genera


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