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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Martin, A General Introduction to the Natural History of Mammiferous Animals, etc. CUL-DAR83.48. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 2.2022. 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 2: 312-313, n46: "I have seen most of the above-named monkeys in the Zoological Society's Gardens. The description of the Semnopithecus namæus is taken from Mr. W. C. Martin's 'Nat. Hist. of Mammalia,' 1841, p. 460; see also p. 475, 523."

William Charles Linnaeus Martin. 1841. A General Introduction to the Natural History of Mammiferous Animals, etc. London.

Martin

p. 523 Cercopithecus Diana Upper surface of the body in most parts deep grizzled ashy grey; front of neck & chest onto part of fore legs white; on middle of back a defined triangle of deep chestnut with the base at the root of the tail; a line of white commencing at the root of the tail runs obliquely along the outer side of each thigh to the knee; the lower part of the abdomen & the inner side of the thighs are abruptly of an orange yellow or red;

(No woodcut, but Audebert Singes & Mac. pl. 6. 1797 — gives drawing.) The face & ears intensely black –

"The beauty of its colouring renders it one of the most attractive of the genus; but its frontal crest of white hairs, & its white peaked beard of formal cut give a singular aspect to its [physiognomy]"

Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)