RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. [Abstract of Lewes, Hereditary influence, animal and human, 1856]. CUL-DAR74.1-2. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2021. RN1

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Lewes, G. H. 1856. Hereditary influence, animal and human. Westminster Review 66 (July): 135-162. http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?viewtype=text&itemID=A255&pageseq=1

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Corresponding age & Prepotency I must allude to this for horses tooth

Hereditary influence (p. 135)

p 140 cases frm Blumenbach of injuries being hereditary

p 142 M. Danney on crossing making new Breeds of X Rabbits -Perhaps see worth looking to.

p 143. Girou relates man slept on back with right leg crossed, child did same

p 146. Fact quoted from Orton's Lectures of peculiarities going with male

p 149. case of wolf & dog crossed by Marquis S. Beaufort, in which crosses in same litter, Father gave external characters in one & mother [in] other, but, the tail as it were [transposed] & in disposition resembled the parent [to] which it was unlike externally.

See article in Dict. Class. d' Hist Nat. I. G. St Hilaire. vol X p. 121.

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