RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [before 1868]. There is a Lutke's Voyage autour du Monde. CUL-DAR53.1.B36. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 6.2025. 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-DAR53.1 contains notes, photographs, and drawings for Darwin's book The expression of the emotions.
Darwin recorded reading this in 'Books Read' on 12 October 1838. CUL-DAR119.- "Lutke's voyage — {carefully read}" however this note records information for use in Variation.
B36
Dr (75) df. P. 268
There is a Lutke's Voyage autour du Monde (1826-9) Par. 1835
quoted repeatedly in Weitz ([illeg]. V) in describing Caroline Archipelago.
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Reference:
Lutké, Frédéric, Voyage autour du Monde, exécuté . . . sur la corvette le Séniavine, dans les années 1826, 1827, 1828, et 1829, etc., traduit du russe par F. Boyé, Didot. Paris, 4 vols., 2 atlases, 1835-36.
Darwin cited Lütke on the cats of the Caroline Archipelago in Variation 1: 47.
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