RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1870]. [drawings of embryos]. CUL-DAR80.B119. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 2.2026. 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).
B119
[traced drawings of embryos]
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Published in Descent 1: 15 with the caption "Fig. 1. Upper figure human embryo, from Ecker. Lower figure that of a dog, from Bischoff." See Darwin to T. H. Huxley 20 June [1870]. See CUL-DAR80.B121-B122.
Ecker, Alexander. 1851-1859. Icones Physiologicae. Erläuterungstafeln Zur Physiologie und Entwickelungsgeschichte. Leipzig: Leopold Voss.
Bischoff, Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm von. 1845. Entwicklungsgeschichte des Hunde-Eies. Mit Fünfzehn Steintafeln. Braunschweig: F. Vieweg und Sohn.
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Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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