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 (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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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
Latreille, Pierre André. 1819. Mémoires sur divers sujets de l'histoire naturelle des insects, de géographie ancienne et de chronologie. Paris.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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