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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Geoffroy St-Hilaire & F Cuvier, Histoire naturelle des mammifères, etc. CUL-DAR85.A54. 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: 318, n7: "As in Macacus cynomolgus (Desmarest, 'Mammalogie,' p. 65) and in Hylobates agilis (Geoffroy St.-Hilaire and F. Cuvier, 'Hist. Nat. des Mamm.' 1824, tom. i. p. 2)."

Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Etienne; Cuvier, Frédéric. 1824. Histoire naturelle des mammifères: avec des figures originales, coloriées, dessinées d'aprèsdes animaux vivans. Paris.

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Hist. Nat. des Mamm. par Geoffroy St-Hilaire & F Cuvier 1824 Tom. I. p. 2. Hylobates agilis Female eyebrows less marked (Man) - Ses Favoris (whiskers) less coloured & less long than in male p 85, yet well developed so that head broader than long. Young are coloured yellowish-white, adults brown.

Females rather smaller than males

Hylobates lar. female decidedly smaller than male - white "favoris" whiskers absent - chest & belly lightly clothed with hair - Hairs of back very [illeg].

[in margin:] Whiskers [many words illeg]

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