RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1868-1870]. Embryo illustrations from Ecker and Bischoff / Draft fragment of Descent. CUL-DAR80.B110v. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles 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 volumes CUL-DAR80-86 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man (1871).


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26 Abbey Place

(Icones Physiologicæ) Ecker. Pl. 30 fig 2.—

Bischoff, Hund Eis Pl. XI

I had (Fig 42)

Descent 1:16: "The human embryo (upper fig.) is from Ecker, 'Icones Phys.,' 1851–1859, tab. xxx. fig. 2. … Bischoff, 'Entwicklungsgeschichte des Hunde-Eies,' 1845, tab. xi. fig. 42 B."

B110vv

[Draft fragment of Descent]

p. 19 of my M.S.

(8) Schaafhausen  says our milk-teeth resemble permanent teeth in apes, because true molars with (having crowns & fangs, as in apes,) occupy the position of the anterior now persistant molars of the second set.— (This all an error)

(so strike out)

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