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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Macalister, Proceedings Royal Irish Academy, 1868. CUL-DAR80.B83. 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: 109-10. n6: "'Proc. R. Irish Academy,' vol. x. 1868, p. 141."

[B83]

Mr Macalister (Proc. R. Irish Acad. Vol X. 1868 p. 121

Has found [illeg] that he observed or seen that Muscular anomalies are most frequent in forearm, secondly in the face & thirdly in the foot &c

p. 124. The Levata claviculae occurred in 1 of 60 subjects.

p. 138 describes variation in flexor pollicis longus - remarkable for their relations to the same muscle in the Quadrumana

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p. 141 describes no less than 20 variations in the palmaris accessorius.

The same muscle sometimes varies in many ways; the P. has described no less the 20 same in the palmar accessor

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