RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1868-1871]. [References on Man] General index of books. CUL-DAR80.B140-B145. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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Lawrence Lec. p. 172 Position of Heart determined by erect position.
R 191. Appendix Vermiformis —
[Lawrence, William. 1822. Lectures on physiology, zoology, and the natural history of man. London: Benbow. PDF Descent 1: 118, .29: "See also Lawrence ('Lectures on Physiology,' &c., 1822, p. 404) on this same subject."]
Expression
Cl. Royer p 121. On degradation of certain muscle in Hand of Gorilla & Chimpanzee
[Royer, Clémence A. 1870. Origine de l'homme et des sociétés. Paris: Guillaumin-Masson. PDF]
Sir C. Lubbock Advance in Savages - Independent advantageous Incentives
Conditions of Races when first spread over Earth.
[Lubbock, John. 1870. The origin of civilisation and the primitive condition of man. London: Longmans, Green & Co. PDF Descent 1: 97, n30: "See on this subject copious evidence in Chap. vii. of Sir. J. Lubbock, 'Origin of Civilisation,' 1870."]
Quatrefages Revue (3) p 724. Colour affected in Abyssinia - Chemical Rays differ greatly according to climate - cases of changed colour - Negro-children blacking at differnt rate
[Quatrefages de Bréau, Jean Louis Armand de. 1868. Museum d'Histoire Naturelle. Anthropologie. 8 parts. Revue des cours scientifiques de la France et de l'étranger 1868: 366-369, 431-438, 450-455, 495-503, 510-518, 528-536, 559-564, 592-600. (whole issue) [Darwin Pamphlet Collection Quarto 134] PDF Descent 1: 246, n50: "See, for instance, Quatrefages ('Revue des Cours Scientifiques,' Oct. 10, 1868, p. 724) on the effects of residence in Abyssinia and Arabia, and other analogous cases. Dr. Rolle ('Der Mensch, seine Abstammung,' &c., 1865, s. 99) states, on the authority of Khanikof, that the greater number of German families settled in Georgia, have acquired in the course of two generations dark hair and eyes.]
(4) Jews not so uniform
(7) The French Canadian have increased in number
(8) good against Broca & Australian sterility
U. States Same Commission - Effects of Use & direct Conditions
[Gould, Benjamin Apthorp. 1869. Investigations in the military and anthropological statistics of American soldiers. New York: U. S. Sanitary Commission. Hurd & Houghton. PDF]
Differences between Negro & White
Häckel Schöpfungsgeschichte p. 235 on Rudiments p. 236 on Ears
[Haeckel, Ernst. 1868. Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte. Gemeinverständliche wissenschaftliche Vorträge über die Entwickelungslehre im Allgemeinen und diejenige von Darwin, Goethe und Lamarck, im Besonderen über die Anwendung derselben auf den Ursprung des Menschen und andere damit zusammenhangende Grundfragen der Naturwissenschaft. Berlin: Georg Reimer. PDF Descent 1: 199, n15: "Häckel has come to this same conclusion. See 'Ueber die Entstehung des Menschengeschlechts,' in Virchow's 'Sammlung. gemein. wissen. Vorträge,' 1868, s. 61. Also his 'Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte,' 1868, in which he gives in detail his views on the genealogy of man."]
p. 251. Branchial arches
252 Os coccyx
390 single origin of all animals most probable
409 Ascidian Chorda dorsalis
437 439 on Amphioxus
442 445 Selachians, parent from of Vertebrata
447 448 Lepidosiren
457. Birds - we get from Huxley clear glimpse of a population of from between Birds & Reptiles
461 474} Marsupials. 463 Montremta
469 Table of Classification - 473 He first gave
481 482 separate Lemur from Monkeys
495 Primates & Man
501 to 507 Table of Descent of Man.
Q 507 Chief differences of Man Upright & speech first extremities differentiated. (touch all)
511 Monogenetic or polygenetic
512 520 Race of Man Brachycephalic &c
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Huxley Mans Place p. 23 - Differences between Man & Anthropoids.
[Huxley, Thomas Henry. 1863. Evidence as to man's place in nature. London: Williams and Norgate. PDF]
p. 34 Orang not adult till 10—15 years old
35 covers himself with leaves
38 Orang throwing down heavy fruit
40 variability in Cranium
65 Embryology of manlike Mammals (Drawings)
70 African apes nearest
91. the Gorilla has a prehensile foot.
104. Man forms a family & not an order
Waitz on number of races & Classification - what they have in common.
[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 Descent 1: 226, n17: "See a good discussion on this subject in Waitz, 'Introduct. to Anthropology,' Eng. translat. 1863, p. 198-208, 227."]
Carl Vogt Lectures 121 Pelvis of Negro
[Vogt, Carl. 1864. Lectures on man: his place in creation, and in the history of the earth. Edited by James Hunt. London: Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts. PDF]
129 Nictitating membrane larger in Negro & Australians
137 Negros calf-less p. 411. Black Kittens
151 Diameters in Human skulls
222 holds fast Races are species.
290 Doubt about Lund's skulls being American type
464 Gratiolet's views from the Brain
[Gratiolet, Pierre. 1865. De la physionomie et des mouvements d'expression. Paris: J. Hetzel. PDF]
Duke of Argyll (M.S. sentence at end about degradation of savages
[Argyll, Duke of, Campbell George Douglas. 1869. Primeval man: an examination of some recent speculations. London: Strachan. PDF]
66 Man diverges in line of weakness. Chimpanzee even in Africa - (teeth sexual character) as Orangs & Baboons use weapons, so man when lower wd have done so insert this when I speak of erectness of man.
100 Negro in Egypt 1900 B.C.
131. Definition of Man capable of reason, acquire, acculturate & transmit reason. Rat
132 Conscious of Moral obligation
145 147 do} an instrument fashioned for a special purpose peculiar to man weaving a strong. man breaking a flint - Beaver cutting timber of proper length. - immeasurable distance.
175. Man aboriginally not created on islands (like other mammals) & there is some parallelism in his has distribution & other Mammals. - He is aboriginal of Australia - it is begging question - say not created there.
180 Stone hatchets not related to ice-period C.D.
188 Man constantly tends to do what is wrong & he knows is wrong but he does not know that scalping his enemies is wrong
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Büchner Sechs. Vorles. 179 Milk teeth of man like those of Apes
[Büchner, Ludwig. 1868. Sechs Vorlesungen über die Darwin'sche Theorie der Verwandlung der Arten. Leipzig: Theodor Thomas. PDF Descent 1: 142, n66: "[…] Dr. Büchner ('Conférences sur la Théorie Darwinienne,' 1869, p. 135) has given good cases of the use of the foot as a prehensile organ by man; also on the manner of progression of the higher apes to which I allude in the following paragraph: see also Owen ('Anatomy of Vertebrates,' vol. iii. p. 71) on this latter subject."]
180 only apes have Tast-Korperchen for feeling
190 Bischoff self-consciousness test of man - do savage reflect on relation of things
[Bischoff, Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm von. 1866. Die Grosshirnwindungen des Menschen mit Berücksichtigung ihrer Entwicklung bei dem Fötus und ihrer Anordnung bei den Affen. Neu untersucht und beschrieben. Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften - Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Klasse, 10 (1): 388-498. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection Quarto 152] PDF]
195 Position & locomotion of Gorilla intermediate (effected by palms in Gorilla & knuckles in Orang see Huxley
198 Schaafh Interval will increase between Man & lower apes.
202 Rutimeyer form connecting the 3 main divisions of monkeys
[Rütimeyer, Ludwig. 1868. Die Grenzen der Thierwelt: eine Betrachtung zu Darwin's Lehre; Karl Ernst von Baer zugewidmet. Basel: Schweigerhaus (Hugo Richter). PDF]
210 (self) mildness of young monkeys is like mildness of young Tigers
Anthropolog. Review No 22 p. 328 proportion of arms & legs of Negros
[Broca, P. 1868. On the relative proportions of the limbs in the Negro and the European. Anthropological Review 6 no 22 (July): 328.]
No. 23 p. 410 Broca of Eyzies race - distinct from all others
[Broca, Paul. 1868. On the crania and bones of Les Eyzies; or, the ancient cave-men of Perigord. Anthropological Review 6 no 23 (October): 408-411.]
p 418 Schaafhausen - approximation of negro & Gorilla formidable objection monogeny
[Schaaffhausen, Hermann. 1868. On the primitive form of the human skull. Anthropological Review 6 no. 23 (October): 412-431.]
419 428 2 main groups Asiatic & African
- Dolichocephaly goes with height - Action of Muscles on form of skull
On - on Prognathism in ancient fossil jaws - civilised races jaws always shortened
428 peculiarities due to erect form
429 effects of civilisation on forms
431 Aeby denies form of skull give basis of Classification
431. Ancient jaws belonged to lower race of man.
No 24. p. 29. Quatrefages on an entirely mixed race of St. Paulo Brazil
[Quatrefages de Bréau, Jean Louis Armand de. 1869. The formation of the mixed human races. Anthropological Review 7 no. 24 (January): 22-40.]
-27 p. 373 Schaafhausen - Trace of savagery families in Homer & the Bible - German savages
[Schaaffhausen, Hermann. 1869. On the development of the human species, and the perfectibility of its races. Anthropological Review 7 no. 27 (October): 366-375.]
Rutimeyer die Grenzenp. 25 MS. Orangs & Hylobates certainly allied
[Rütimeyer, Ludwig. 1868. Die Grenzen der Thierwelt: eine Betrachtung zu Darwin's Lehre; Karl Ernst von Baer zugewidmet. Basel: Schweigerhaus (Hugo Richter). PDF]
p. 31. Long-Head & short-Heads have from extremely recent period.
p. 39 43} It is precisely in skull of apes that effect of mechanical labour plainest.
62 Rate of development of infant skull
70 In skull & brain Orangs nearest to man
Gerland on Extinction - p.12 a tribe once reduced generally become extinct
[Gerland, Georg. 1868. Über das Aussterben der Naturvölker. Leipzig: Friedrich Fleischer. PDF]
p. 82 Natural Physical conditions do not destroy races, as T. del Fuego & Esquimaux. - It is the struggle with other races, as with Organisms
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Bückner Conferences French p. 123 Shaafhausen on intermediate position in locomotion of Gorilla & man
[ Büchner, Ludwig. 1869. Conférences sur la théorie darwinienne de la transmutation des espèces. Translated by A. Jacquot. Paris: C. Reinwald. PDF]
p. 132 Ask whether savages have self-consciousness
135 on upright monkeys
137 on gaps between man & lower apes getting bigger
Liverpool Medical Reports p 46 Vertebrates hypothetically hermaphrodites
[Rawdon, H. G. 1867. Description of a case of true hermaphroditism with remarks. Liverpool Medical & Surgical Reports 1: 39-52]
Morgan Beaver p 256 reflects over work
[Morgan, Lewis Henry. 1868. The American beaver and his works. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott. PDF]
p 272 Blind Pelicans fed Domestic fowl)
Herbert Spencer Psychology - p. 513 gradation from infant to adult & so possible with animals
[Spencer, Herbert. 1855. The principles of psychology. London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longman. PDF ]
Owen Anatom. of Vert. Vol. I. p. 533 Wollfian glands - urinary &persistent in Fishes
[Owen, Richard. 1866-1868. On the anatomy of vertebrates. 3 vols. London: Longmans, Green & Co. CUL-DAR.LIB.477 vol. 1 PDF vol. 2 PDF vol. 3 PDF]
Vol. II. p. 517. difference in number of vertebrae in tail of Macacus
551 No mastoid processes - & development of this Schaafhausen says is due to erect posture - various other characteristic differences
p 553 great toe chief difference - clearly adaptive "quote"
564. teeth of Australians
566 difference of cranium & differnt habits of life - direct effects in the Orang
Vol. III. p. 71. Knuckle walkers
135 Human brain is developed in some degree like in Apes
260 well developed nictitator in Monotremes
315 Teeth of American Monkeys
320 325} wisdom tooth in Australians
323 canine tooth retains conical form in Man, especially dark races
417, 433, 441. Vermiform appendage to caecum
236-244 Ear.
619 young Elephants & Rhino most hairy & in cold situations
- direction of Hair on limbs. In Polly transverse on forelegs
675 Rudiments of organs in ♂ man
676 do. in Penis
685, 6, Rudiment of Bicorned Uterus in women - Primordial women have double Uterus
706 Rudiments in Wombs of women
767 Marsupial pouch in Echidna
770 do rudiment in the Dorsigerous Opossum?
771. Male Thylacinus rudimental marsupium
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Lyell's Principles vol. 2
[Lyell, Charles. 1867-1868. Principles of geology: or, the modern changes of the Earth and its inhabitants considered as illustrative of geology. 10th ed. London: John Murray. 2 vols. vol. 1 PDF vol. 2 PDF]
p. 473 Agassiz on Range of man & other Animals & Bates on Americans - not on Islands - Wallace lines.
p 483 Owen thinks Dryopithecus is a Hylobates
p. 489 on the Holy Inquisition havng killed the most men
Latham Man p. 97 on encroachment of one race obliterating intermediate forms
135 to reach the Cape or T. del Fuego passed through various climates
[Latham, Robert Gordon. 1851. Man and his migrations. London: John Van Voorst. PDF Descent 1: 136, n57: "Latham, 'Man and his Migrations,' 1851, p. 135."]
Page Man where p 96. The advancement of Race depends on individual.
[Page, David. 1867. Man, where, whence and whither. Edinburgh: Edmonton & Douglas. PDF]
Proc. R. Soc. Davis Weight of Brain
[Davis, J. Barnard. 1868. Contributions towards determining the weight of the brain in different races of man. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 158 no. 2: 505-527. Descent 1: 146, n70: "[J. Barnard Davis.] 'Philosophical Transactions,' 1869, p. 513."]
Nilsson p. 104 Identity of Arrow heads by Fuegians, Scania & N. America When I discuss - ornaments, gestures, expression. all the same.
[Nilsson, Sven. 1868. The primitive inhabitants of Scandinavia and with an Introduction by Sir J. Lubbock, Bart. 3d ed. London: John Murray. PDF Descent 1: 233, n24: "'The Primitive Inhabitants of Scandinavia,' Eng. translat. edited by Sir J. Lubbock, 1868, p. 104."]
Owen Nature of Limbs p. 115 on Os Coccyx.
[Owen, Richard. 1849. On the Nature of limbs. London: John Van Voorst. PDF]
Owen on Classification p 27 affinities of Montremata (see to this)
[Owen, Richard. 1859. On the classification and geographical distribution of the mammalia, being the lecture on Sir Robert Reade's foundation, delivered before the University of Cambridge, in the Senate-House, May 10, 1859. To which is added an appendix "on the gorilla," and "on the extinction and transmutation of species." London: John W. Parker and Son. Text]
- 47 sketch of monkeys
Isidore Geoffroy. II. p. 185 Rank of Man
[ Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Isidore. 1854-1862. Histoire Naturelle générale des règnes organiques. 3 vols. Paris: Victor Masson. vol. 1 PDF vol. 2 PDF vol. 3 PDF Descent 1: 186, n1: "Isidore Geoffroy St.-Hilaire gives a detailed account of the position assigned to man by various naturalists in their classifications: 'Hist. Nat. Gén.' tom. ii. 1859, p. 170-189."]
243 Hair from hand to elbow in som American monkeys
216 Head of man & upper surface of animals most hairy
244 Macacus intermediate in tail between tailed & tailless
Godron vol 2. p. 247 on colour of skin & climate
[Godron, Dominique Alexandre. 1859. De l'espèce et des races dans les êtres organisés et spécialement de l'unité de l'espèce humaine. 2 vols. Paris: J. B. Baillière et Fils. vol. 1 PDF vol. 2 PDF]
276 colour of Hair paler to N. (Sanitary Commission U. States
278 do variable in Isld of Christian (& Mandans)
289. Height of stature in relation to good living
308 Chest, size of & mountains
337 Summary on causes of differences in Races
Huxley Comp. Anat p 72 Mammae extreme rud. of sebaceous glands.
[Huxley, Thomas Henry. 1864. Lectures on the elements of comparative anatomy. London: John Churchill & Sons. PDF]
Quatrefages Unitè p. 19. Histology shows unity of man
[Quatrefages de Bréau, Jean Louis Armand de. 1861. Unité de l'espèce humaine. Paris: J. Claye. PDF]
20 Language identity in Principle
205 206 Negros become liable to fever
Kowalevsky on do marked
4to Pamp. Metschinikov. on Ascidians
Zoolog. Transact. Mivart & Murie p. 6 & 90 Ear terms used
[Murie, James and Mivart, St George Jackson. 1869. On the anatomy of the Lemuroidea. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 7 no. 1: 1-113. Descent 1: 23, n25: "See also some remarks, and the drawings of the ears of the Lemuroidea, in Messrs. Murie and Mivart's excellent paper in 'Transact. Zoolog. Soc.' vol. vii. 1869, pp. 6 and 90."]
p. 96. variability of muscles
p. 98 do - compared with man
100 Place of Lemuridæ
Novara Reise 4to p. VI. remnants of Race
[Müller, Friedrich. 1868. Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859. Anthropologischer Theil. Dritte abtheilung. Ethnographie. Vienna: Kaiserlich-Königlichen Hof- und Staatsdruckerei. PDF Descent 1: 183, n34: "Dr. F. Müller has made some good remarks to this effect in the 'Reise der Novara: Anthropolog. Theil,' Abtheil. iii. 1868, s. 127."]
p. 127 on origin of civilisation of Peru -
How little shipwrecked marines or single missionary can permanently do.
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Phil. Transact. Part II. 68 Davis on Weight of Brain in Races.
[Davis, J. Barnard. 1868. Contributions towards determining the weight of the brain in different races of man. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 158 no. 2: 505-527. Descent 1: 146, n70: "[J. Barnard Davis.] 'Philosophical Transactions,' 1869, p. 513."]
4to Archiv für Anthropolog p 259 Shaafhausen believes in multiple origin
[Schaaffhausen, Hermann. 1869. Die Lehre Darwin's und die Anthropologie. Archiv für Anthropologie. 3: 259-266. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection reviews 118] PDF]
Spectator 4to on Supernatural Selection applied to mind.
[Anon. 1868. Natural and supernatural selection. Spectator (3 October): 1154-1155. CUL-DAR139.16.1[.1] Image]
Bull. St. Petersburgh. Grube p. 455. On foramen Cond. a rudiment
[Gruber, W. 1868. Zweiter Nachtrag zur Kenntniss des Processus supracondyloideus (internus) humeri des Menschen. Bulletin de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. Petersbourg 12 no. 4: 448-457. Descent 1: 28, n37: "See also an important memoir on this process by Dr. Grube, in the 'Bulletin de l'Acad. Imp. de St. Pétersbourg,' tom. xii. 1867, p. 448."]
4to Grosshirnwindungen Bischoff p 94 Brain of Gorilla lowest
[Bischoff, Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm von. 1866. Die Grosshirnwindungen des Menschen mit Berücksichtigung ihrer Entwicklung bei dem Fötus und ihrer Anordnung bei den Affen. Neu untersucht und beschrieben. Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften - Mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Klasse, 10 (1): 388-498. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection Quarto 152] PDF]
95 In Cynocephalus brain is winding like that of human foetus of 7 months
96 Brain closely analogous yet that of man not merely higher development of that of Ape
p. 99 great difference in Brain of Man & Apes.
Archiv. Anthropolog. I. B. p. 164 Humboldt thought savages degraded
[Schaaffhausen, Hermann. 1866. Ueber den Zustand der wilden Völker. Archiv für Anthropologie 1 (2): 161-190. [Darwin Library-CUL] PDF]
Lartet on increase of Brain in Mammals, my rabbits
[Lartet, E. 1868. De quelques cas de progression organique vérifiables dans la succession des temps géologiques sur des mammifères de même famille et de même genre. Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris Année 3: 451-454. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection Quarto 151] PDF]
C. Vogt. — intermaxillary bone - Rudiment.
[Vogt, Carl. 1864. Lectures on man: his place in creation, and in the history of the earth. Edited by James Hunt. London: Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts. PDF]
Arrest. Development. — Age of wisdom teeth — Climbing (& children biting
Jarrold. Anthr p. 90, 91. Gravity affects shape of Head
[Jarrold, Thomas. 1808. Anthropologia: or, dissertations on the form and colour of man. London: Cadell & Davies. PDF Descent 1: 147, n74: "Dr. Jarrold ('Anthropologia,' 1808, p. 115, 116) adduces from Camper and from his own observations, cases of the modification of the skull from the head being fixed in an unnatural position. He believes that certain trades, such as that of a shoemaker, by causing the head to be habitually held forward, makes the forehead more rounded and prominent."]
p 110. Negro we know how easily by sleeping on hard cradle &c shape of Head modified
p 115 quotes Casper 116
p. 191. on Freckles not appearing in youth — Red Hair most liable
Galton. p. 132-140 If I say anything against Primogeniture loss of illustrious men add Heiresses I might add the Celibacy of middle age.
[Galton, Francis. 1869. Hereditary genius. London: Macmillan. PDF]
p. 317 321. summary Distribution of nearest & more distant allies.
336 use of intelligence
330 Sterility of Prodigies of Genius
340 342 Greece.
347 Nat. selection & local elimination of nomadic man.
349. one Barbarian ancestor, as bearing on morals.
356. Effects of Late marriages. (Dr Duncan)
358, 359 362 Effects of Celibacy & Martyrdom. (Lyell)
p.5 of the Index
Huxley (new Book) p. 88 no marsupial sack - Marsupial Bones
[Huxley, Thomas Henry. 1869. An introduction to the classification of animals. London: John Churchill & Sons. PDF]
p. 99. Classification of Primates - Dental system of Lemuridæ variable - as formerly the union of American & Old World Apes
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