RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Octavo Pamphlets. CUL-DAR80.B146-B147. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

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

The first note here records Darwin's reactions to A. R. Wallace's declaration that natural selection did not seem to him sufficient to explain human evolution.


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Wallace Q. Review. p. 392. Higher moral faculties useless to savages! Nat. selection cd have endowed savage with Brain only little superior to that of savage!! - Hands again useless to savage - Hand of Quadrumana beyond its wants!!! Thinks never utilized!! Voice of man of one use - so with Birds. – "It seems as if as if some new spirit had possessed him."

[Descent 1: 137, n59: "Quarterly Review,' April, 1869, p. 392. This subject is more fully discussed in Mr. Wallace's 'Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection,' 1870, in which all the essays referred to in this work are republished. The 'Essay on Man' has been ably criticised by Prof. Claparède, one of the most distinguished zoologists in Europe, in an article published in the 'Bibliothèque Universelle,' June, 1870. The remark quoted in my text will surprise every one who has read Mr. Wallace's celebrated paper on 'The Origin of Human Races deduced from the Theory of Natural Selection,' originally published in the 'Anthropological Review,' May, 1864, p. clviii. I cannot here resist quoting a most just remark by Sir J. Lubbock ('Prehistoric Times,' 1865, p. 479) in reference to this paper, namely, that Mr. Wallace, with characteristic unselfishness, ascribes it (i.e. the idea of "natural selection) unreservedly to Mr. Darwin, although, as is well known, he struck out the idea independently, and published it, though not with the same elaboration, at the same time."]

Brackenridge Change of climate affects Lungs & Liver Kidneys

Q. J. Geolog. Soc: No. 98. Huxley 149-152. Mammals will be fd in Palaeozoic Time

Proc. R. Soc. No 93 Wood p. 518 544 frequency of variations in muscles of Man

[Descent 1: 109, n5: "'Proc. Royal Soc.' 1867, p. 544; also 1868, p. 483, 524. There is a previous paper, 1866, p. 229."]

p. 529 - analogue to Apes. p. 532, 535, 538, 540

No 98 Davis on Weight of Brain: refer to Transactions

[Descent 1: 146, n70: "[J. Barnard Davis] 'Philosophical Transactions,' 1869, p. 513."]

No 104. Wood p 483 excessive variability, good to quote

p. 485 like apes. - 490 Sternalis-brutorum.

p. 498 like apes. - 499, 501

p 511 muscle constantly present in the Quadrumana & oftener in women than ♂

p 519 A muscle always absent in Quadrumana, & ocasionlly in man & oftener in ♀ - Redundancy of same muscles common in Man. p 523 on do.

521 muscles found in Apes

Gaston de Saporta Pal: p. 29 On advance in art in Rein-deer man.

Ch. Vogt Address. p. 7. strong sentence from Preface, about everyone give up Creation

Schleiden Unsere Zeit p. 609. 1s grt molar in 2 Australian women smaller than 2d. which is Apelike

p. 612 quotes Gegenbaur on supernumerary Sternal Bones - related to Mammals below Apes

[Descent 1: 207, n23: "This is the conclusion of one of the highest authorities in comparative anatomy, namely, Prof. Gegenbaur: 'Grundzüge der vergleich. Anat.' 1870, s. 876. The result has been arrived at chiefly from the study of the Amphibia; but it appears from the researches of Waldeyer (as quoted in Humphry's 'Journal of Anat. and Phys.' 1869, p. 161), that the sexual organs of even "the higher vertebrata are, in their early condition, hermaphrodite." Similar views have long been held by some authors, though until recently not well based."]

Wilckens p. 6 Effects of mountain pasture on form of quadrupeds

7 correlation of thickness of hair & pore.

[Descent 1: 120, n33: "Dr. Wilckens ('Landwirthschaft. Wochenblatt,' No. 10, 1869) has lately published an interesting essay shewing how domestic animals, which live in mountainous regions, have their frames modified."]

Häckel in Sammlung (refer to in Preface.)

[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. 61. Man descended from form between Platyrhine Carterrhines & others p. 62

66 calls Races species

67 Man single origin, 10 species

p 74. quotes Weisbach (from Scherzer & Schwarz)

74 indifferent whethr Races so called or species.

[Descent 1: 198, n14: "Messrs. Murie and Mivart on the Lemuroidea, 'Transact. Zoolog. Soc.' vol. vii. 1869, p. 5."]

J. P. Durand (De Gros) - I might quote as some proof of direct action

[Descent 1: 113, n15: "I have fully discussed these laws in my 'Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication,' vol. ii. chap. xxii. and xxiii. M. J. P. Durand has lately (1868) published a valuable essay 'De l'Influence des Milieux, &c.' He lays much stress on the nature of the soil."]

Dally p. 26 on the thumb muscle. alluded to by Md. Royer

29. Vulpian on general resemblance of Brain of man to higher Apes

[Descent 1: 11, n2: "'Lec. sur la Phys.' 1866, p. 890, as quoted by M. Dally, 'L'Ordre des Primates et le Transformisme,' 1868, p. 29."]

Wyman Observat. on Crania p 18 skulls of Sandwich Isd - skulls very variable.

[Descent 1: 109, n2: "On the Sandwich Islanders, Prof. J. Wyman, 'Observations on Crania,' Boston, 1868, p. 18."]

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Jaeger - on use affecting length of bones

[Descent 1: 74, n6: "'Die Darwine'sche Theorie,' s, 101."]

Haast - MonatsBericht stone implements in N. Zealand

Busk on Gibraltar - p. 54, Perforated condyles common in old Races.

4.5 per cent. Broca - 30 per cent Rein-deer period

p. 55 Bones like Eyzies (B. Dunblane in N. Wales) dolicocephalic skulls

[Descent 1: 28, n38: "On the Caves of Gibraltar," 'Transact. Internat. Congress of Prehist. Arch.' Third Session, 1869, p. 54."]

Sidebotham Manchester p 14. on light on Lepidoptera

Proc. American Acad. Morgan p. 436. on Kinship

[Descent 1: 46, n15: "Mr. L. H. Morgan's work on 'The American Beaver,' 1868, offers a good illustration of this remark. I cannot, however, avoid thinking that he goes too far in underrating the power of Instinct."]

Saporta l'Ecole p 641. Higher the animal the quicker transformed

Quatrefages. Hist. Nat. Gen. Revue des D. M. p. 165. on man not descended from apes.

Fraser on Selection - (the weak preserved.) very important we preserve the sick.

[Descent 1: 178, n25: "Mr. Greg, 'Fraser's Magazine,' Sept. 1868, p. 357."]

Macclennnan in N. British Rev. p 526 Definition of Civilization

p. 533 v. Duke of Argyll very good.

544 Proof of Advance

Preyer p. 45 Mammae Erraticæ

[Descent 1: 125, n38: "In my 'Variation of Animals under Domestication' (vol. ii. p. 57) I attributed the not very rare cases of supernumerary mammæ in women to reversion. I was led to this as a probable conclusion, by the additional mammæ being generally placed symmetrically on the breast, and more especially from one case, in which a single efficient mamma occurred in the inguinal region of a woman, the daughter of another woman with supernumerary mammæ. But Prof. Preyer ('Der Kampf um das Dasein,' 1869, s. 45) states that mammæ erraticæ have been known to occur in other situations, even on the back; so that the force of my argument is greatly weakened or perhaps quite destroyed."]

Lubbock Origin of Civilisation 68 Tahitians avoiding cannibalism

[Descent 1: 66, n53: "See also the three striking chapters on the Development of Religion, in Lubbock's 'Origin of Civilisation,' 1870."]

Patagonians taking to Horses (imitation)

p 10 Language - v. Haliburton

Aug. Müller [(Saurling)] p 22 Heart of Embryo beat before nerves

p. 44 single heart

Rolle I. 99 - Germans in Georgia settled have become dark *

Quote line in Preface.

[Descent 1: 246, n50: "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. Mr."]


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