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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Pallas, Spicilegia Zoologica. CUL-DAR83.96. 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: 256, n24: "Pallas, 'Spicilegia Zoologica,' fasc. xiii. 1779, p. 18." and p. 281, n12: "Pallas, 'Spicilegia Zoolog.' fasc. xiii. 1799, p. 24."

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Spicilegia Zoologica Fas. 13° 1779 on the Musk Deer.

p. 18 - In first year great Canines absent - in old age were 3 inch long unless broken by fighting - in old females at this age a rudiment scarcely 1/2 a line above gums.

p. 23 an excellent account of odoriferous glands in all manes & which are common to 2 sexes.

p. 24. about consistence & quantity not increasing at time of rut, admits its presence connected with reproduction, but gives only conjectural & unsatisfactory explanation

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not all Antelope

[Probably] - Owen gives Table.

(So flashing an element my paper been)

Saiga p. 28 & Fasc 12 – 1777

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