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Act. Acad. St. Petersburg 1778. Part II.

p. 217 Paper by C. F. Wolff on "de Inconstantia Fabriciæ corporis Humani eligendisque ad eam repræsentandam exemplaribus" — Nothing can show variability than necessity of writing such a paper — it sounds strange that conclusion he comes to, that even the most common must not be chosen, but the most beautiful & useful — the bear idea of & utile of the kidney kidney liver & intestines.—

[in margin:] Put these sentence in notes

— says veins & arteries in grt. & small branches — varietas infinita atque indeterminabilis in bones, muscles, viscera, liver and ventricula, kidneys heart, brain — scarcely two men can be found alike even in their important noble viscera.—

p. 218 "nulla in his visceribus particula sil, quae non varia in varjis corporibus invarietas."

[Descent 1: 109-10: "The famous old anatomist, Wolff,7 insists that the internal viscera are more variable than the external parts: Nulla particula est quæ non aliter et aliter in aliis se habeat hominibus. He has even written a treatise on the choice of typical examples of the viscera for representation. A discussion on the beau-ideal of the liver, lungs, kidneys, &c., as of the human face divine, sounds strange in our ears.
The variability or diversity of the mental faculties in men of the same race, not to mention the greater differences between the men of distinct races, is so notorious that not a word need here be said. So it is with the lower animals, as has been illustrated by a few examples in the last chapter.
7 'Act. Acad.,' St. Petersburg, 1778, part ii. p. 217."]

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Differences from more considerable than in countenance & external form.—

p. 222 specifies variation of many important valvula orifici venæ coronoariæ magnæ" differ in shape thickness in extraordinary degree even in anatomical drawings {good case to allude to, if I treat of valves of veins as final cause structures

p. 223 "Nulla particula est quæ non aliter atque aliter in aliis se habeat hominibus"

— says vast differences in the embryos of chickens so that one would doubt whether all came from chickens eggs if not seen extracted.

— Says differences f as above, common to animals & to men.—