RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1840]. Abstract of Anderson, An account of the different kinds of sheep found in the Russian Dominions, etc. CUL-DAR47.92. Edited by John van Wyhe (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'.
Darwin recorded reading and abstracting this work in April 1840 in his 'Books to be read / Books Read' notebook. Text CUL-DAR119.-. "Sheep of Russia. Anderson & Pallas — do"
Pallas, Pyotr Simon. 1794. An account of the different kinds of sheep found in the Russian dominions, and among the Tartar hordes of Asia to which is added five appendices tending to illustrate the natural and economical history of sheep and other domestic animals. By James Anderson. Edinburgh.
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79. "experience has fully proved that any one breed may be kept perfectly uncontaminated for any length of time merely by preventing intermixture."
Page 81. Dr A.— contrasts the facility of keeping pure races of Peas compared with races of Cabbages.
Varieties Keeping distinct
[Appendix first. Thoughts on what is called varieties, or different breeds of domestic animals, suggested by reading of Dr. Pallas's account of Russian sheep, pp. 76-94.]
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