RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Livingstone, Missionary travels and researches in South Africa, etc. CUL-DAR47.67. 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 7.2022. 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-DAR47 contains notes for Natural selection chap. 7 'Laws of Variation'.


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Livingstone Travels p. 345 contrasts the thornlessness of vegetation is very striking in central districts compared with that of the South, where there is great variety of thorn-bearing plants.

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.


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