RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Pouchet, Plurality of races; Quatrefages; Waitz. CUL-DAR80.A11. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 3.2022. RN2
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 volumes CUL-DAR80-86 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man (1871).
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Pouchet Plurality of Races p 60 on Negro escaping yellow fever.
Waitz — Quatrefages Unitè p 205, 206
Pouchet, Georges. 1864. The plurality of the human race. Trans. of 2d ed. by H. J. C. Beavan. London: Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts. PDF Darwin cited this in Descent 1: 243, n46: "'The Plurality of the Human Race' (translat.), 1864, p. 60."
Quatrefages de Bréau, Jean Louis Armand de. 1861. Unité de l'espèce humaine. Paris: J. Claye. PDF
Waitz, Theodor. 1863. Introduction to anthropology. Edited, with numerous additions by the author, from the first volume of "Anthropologie der Naturvölker" by J. Frederick J. Collingwood. London: Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts. vol. 1. PDF
Darwin cited these in Descent 1: 243, n47: "Quatrefages, 'Unité de l'Espèce Humaine,' 1861, p. 205. Waitz, 'Introduct. to Anthropology,' translat. vol. i. 1863, p. 124. Livingstone gives analogous cases in his 'Travels.'"
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