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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1869.02.22-23. Man / I think Beard of monkeys very often of different colour from Hair. CUL-DAR85.A42. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 3.2022. 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: 308, n44: "I observed this fact in the Zoological Gardens; and numerous cases may be seen in the coloured plates in Geoffroy St.-Hilaire and F. Cuvier, 'Hist. Nat. des Mammifères,' tom. i. 1824."

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Man Feb 22/69

I think Beard of monkeys very often of different colours from Hair of adjoining parts – certainly with man the Beard is very frequently of different colour, sometimes very different & almost always lighter & generally redder to those Hair of Head:

Feb 23rd I have looked at all monkeys in z. g – when beard duller always lighter – so with beard & ruff of [illeg] – orange & black whisker of Moustache – White beard of Diana – white whisker of Cercocebus Æthiops. C petaurista white beard

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