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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & Cuvier, Histoire naturelle des mammifères. CUL-DAR80.B50. 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).

Darwin cited this in Descent 1: 13-14. n: "This remark is made with respect to Cynocephalus and the anthropomorphous apes by Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and F. Cuvier, 'Hist. Nat. des Mammiféres,' tom. i. 1824."

Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire and Cuvier. 1824-1842. Histoire naturelle des mammifères: avec des figures originales, coloriées, dessinées d'aprèsdes animaux. Paris.

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Man See Back for Book

Remarks that Cynocephalus & the anthropomorphous apes differ as much for a long time in growing old, as does a man from a child takes several years & characters alter greatly (See Back [illeg] )

Colour of ♂ & ♀ Dull differ & young ♂ like ♀

Mandrill [young] ♂ face black, with maxillary sides blue. ♀ smaller than ♂ - nose never red, & all colours never so brilliant, - nose never quite red; old ♂ Apparently has more large naked buttocks in old than young ♂

In figure of old ♂ face blue with white lines & intense red nose. Buttocks blue shading into red & & crimson round anus.

Compare the colours to Plumage of ♂ Birds

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Birds [different colour] Geoffroy

Hylobates

(14) also many America Monkey

Histoire Nat. des Mammifères Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & F. Cuvier Tom I 1824

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