RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Vogt, Lectures on Man, English translation. CUL-DAR85.A87. 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, vol. 2.


[A87]

Carl Vogt

81 Female like children skulls & of lower races

88 90} increase in size of skulls & Pelvis

121 Form of pelvis in Negro

137 calfless legs add when I speak of Africa as original home [few words illeg]

More intellectual Powers - skulls of civilized women smaller - Voice strength - Constitution

127 Negro extra naked

127 Hair – [illeg] - down

129 Beauty Sexual selection  [illeg] if give exaggerated [few words illeg] Beauty

133 self-consciousness - distinction of man

150 diastema

151. Allude to Vogt

189 Negro children not black at first

{Quote Section VII for resemblance of negro to apes

p. 222 Races of men as distinct as species

290 Doubts about Brazil - cave skulls.

411. Black Kittens striped only white pedigree [illeg]

421 Rengger white Cats not crossing?

431 Slave skulls smaller than native African

464. Culmination of Ape-types.

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[A87v]

Skulls nose Hun Sumatra Tahiti Feet

It must be admitted that some monkeys, as the American present so many, as generally considered geographical races, that it is very difficult to know what to call species; but if a vast number of species were collected & 2 now extremely distinct forms could be most closely linked together, they wd not, at least by most potential any longer be named as distinct.

I ought to insert, when I speak of Chimpanzee


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