RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Owen, On the Anatomy of Vertebrates, etc. CUL-DAR83.89. 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: 279, n9: "Owen ('Anat. of Vertebrates,' vol. iii. p. 634) also gives an account of these glands, including those of the elephant, and (p. 763) those of shrew-mice."

Richard Owen. 1868. On the Anatomy of Vertebrates, Mammals, vol. 3. London.


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Owen Anat of Vert. Vol. 3 p. 763

"The abdominal scent glands are present in both sexes, & become largest in the male Shrews."


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