RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. 'Huxley says old Ganoids are much related to Lepidosiren which connects amphibians & Fishes'. CUL-DAR80.B17. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Text prepared and edited by John van Wyhe. 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).
Darwin cited this in Descent 1: 27.
B17
Huxley says Orang very abnormal — Length of arms & dentition connect Gibbon, Orang Chimpanzee & Gorilla together into Anthropomorphida group — he believes Gratiolet — Thinks he overstates brain characters.—
B17v
Huxley
Interval of development of wise teeth after last molar. Size of do, relatively to others, in man & Anthropomorphids— Brace on dray teeth length or size of lower jaw, relatively to head — relative size of teeth is difference— American monkey
About affinities of Anthropomorpherat & Gratiolet's views.—
Refer Bird paper Wallace
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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