RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. [Abstract of Schlegel Essay on the physiognomy of serpents] CUL-DAR48.A20. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 9.2021. 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-DAR48 contains notes for Natural selection chap. 8 'Transitions of Organs'. Notes on bees' cells for origin of species theory.
Schlegel, Hermann. 1843. Essay on the physiognomy of serpents. Translated by Thomas Stewart Traill. Edinburgh. [Darwin Library in CUL]
See Origin, p. 144.[A20]
Schlegel p. 24. Pygopus presents rudiment of circular eyelid.
Is it Reptile allied to Chamelion I had thought, I might say, was in its circular eye-lid a unique case that I was on point of giving this as unique cases, when I remembered Pygopus.
Ch. 8
Pygopus I find in Cuvier is a sub-genus of Bipes, in the family of Lizards Saurians next to Chamelion - Cuvier does not mention about eye-lid, but I am nearly sure Müller does
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