RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Gardeners' Chronicle / Draft of Descent 1: 232. CUL-DAR46.2.C53. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2022. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR46.2 contains Notes for Natural selection.


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Gardeners Chronicle

1841 p 485 Beans Beans flower parboiled not seeding [Ruricola]

1844 p 374 Bees from different Hives visiting different flowers Pansies. [John Grant]

1853 p 183 Fancy Fancy flowers doing best in particular district good showing shade of effects of conditions.

1857 p. 725 self on Kidney Beans

[Darwin, C. R. 1857. Bees and the fertilisation of kidney beans. Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette no. 43 (24 October): 725. F1697]

1858 p 828, & 845 do do

[Darwin, C. R. 1858. On the agency of bees in the fertilisation of papilionaceous flowers, and on the crossing of kidney beans. Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette no. 46 (13 November): 828-9. F1701]

1861 p 552 my paper on Vinca see also p 699, 736 & 831

[Darwin, C. R. 1861. Fertilisation of Vincas. Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette no. 24 (15 June): 552. F1836]

1865 p 559 on growing Dionaea

1841 p 550 on the Boring of flowers by Humble Bees very good. "versus saaft—maal."    C. Darwin

[Darwin, C. R. 1841. Humble-bees. Gardeners' Chronicle no. 34 (21 August): 550. F1658]

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side any community in beliefs & habits which may might possibly have been communicated from one race to race another, let any one read dispassionately read in Tylor's most interesting work* (Early History of Mankind 1865) & he can hardly fail to be struck with the close similarity in the minds of all the man of all races, as in their similar tastes for dancing, painting & tattooing character, in their instinct under similar comprehension of gesture ─ language, & in the & in by the [expression] of features to various emotions of their countenances (a subject to which I have attended of the when excited by the various emotions, may often

[Descent 1: 232: "He who will carefully read Mr. Tylor's and Sir J. Lubbock's interesting works23 can hardly fail to be deeply impressed with the close similarity between the men of all races in tastes, dispositions and habits. This is shewn by the pleasure which they all take in dancing, rude music, acting, painting, tattooing, and otherwise decorating themselves,—in their mutual comprehension of gesture-language—and, as I shall be able to shew in a future essay, by the same expression in their features, and by the same inarticulate cries, when they are excited by various emotions. This similarity, or rather identity, is striking, when contrasted with the different expressions which may be observed in distinct species of monkeys.
23 Tylor's 'Early History of Mankind,' 1865; for the evidence with respect to gesture-language, see p. 54. Lubbock's 'Prehistoric Times,' 2nd edit. 1869."]


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