The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Martin, A general introduction to the natural history of mammiferous animals, etc. CUL-DAR80.B53. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles 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 heading 'Man' indicates that this document was filed by Darwin in his portfolio for the research that culminated in Descent.

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Man

Nat Hist of Mamm. Animals by W C L. Martin 1841

p 415 In Hylobates agilis, the hair on the fore-arms is inclined forwards in the ordinary manner. In H. lar the hair is nearly erect with a slight inclination forwards. In some of the other species the hair is reverted towards the elbow where meeting the hair on the humerus, it forms a peak (like man)

William Charles Linnaeus Martin. 1841. A general introduction to the natural history of mammiferous animals. London. Darwin cited this in Descent 1: 194, n8: "On the hair in Hylobates, see 'Nat. Hist. of Mammals,' by C. L. Martin, 1841, p. 415."

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