RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1858.04.12]. Abstract of Livingstone, Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa Including a Sketch, etc. CUL-DAR83.58. 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 recorded reading this work on 12 April 1858 in his "books read", "books to be read" notebook. "Ap. 12 1858 Livingstone Travels (the best Travels I ever read)"
Livingstone, David. 1857. Missionary travels and researches in South Africa; including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa, and a journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Luanda, on the west coast: thence across the continent, from the river Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean. London. [Abstract in CUL-DAR205.11.2.78-80.]
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Ch. I.
[in margin:] Sexual Selection
Livingstone Travels p. 565 "The natives always choose the larger & stronger males for stock"
The wild male animals "invariably show the scars received in battle" Ch I
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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