RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1864-1871]. Index of Index to Brehm, 1864 / Draft of Descent 1: 10-11. CUL-DAR80.B139. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and John van Wyhe, edited by John van Wyhe 10.2021, 8.2025. 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).

The text of the draft corresponds to Descent 1: 10-11.


[B139]

Index of Index to Brehm

3. VI Holding out arm to Doctor

Washing face of young monkeys

4. use stones in fighting

very fond of young animals.

Death of young in confinement always cause of death of ♀

(5) Defended pass in concert

(6) Revengeful in defended a dog - fond of teasing other animals.

does not like being laughed at

use of hammer & lever.

Vol. I

p. 80 rolling down stones to close path

85. protect their masters - (Mat on shoulders) [calm them within leas] at night

86 riding asses & Dogs Rengger

86 Afraid of Lizards

87 cutting off claws of Kitten - opening mouth of Monkeys

not use tools - do not know fire use domestic animals.

Brehm, Alfred Edmund. 1864-1867. Illustrirtes Thierleben. Eine allgemeine Kunde des Thierreichs. 4 vols. Hildburghausen: Verlag der Bibliographischen Instituts. [Darwin Library-Down] vol. 1 PDF link vol. 2 PDF link vol. 3 PDF link vol. 4 PDF link

[B139v]

true Bischoff who is a hostile witness [text obscured by tape]

admits as beyond a doubt that [even the analogy of]

in the question that the convolutions of the hemispheres in men & in the higher apes as follows are constructed on the same type. The brain of man perhaps has not one principal chiefly furn or architecture chief fissure or fold the analogy of which cannot be primitive shown us to [illeg] in an analogous state with change put in the brain of the can be same as the orang ; Vulpian says * (4) But he adds that at no period development their brains do not perfectly agree with each other, Nor could this be expected, for in this case their otherwise than it is almost certain that mental powers of man and the higher apes would have been the same. Vulpian says remarks * (4) remarks


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