RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Siebold, On the law of development of the sexes in insects. CUL-DAR85.B113. 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).

Siebold, von. 1868. On the law of development of the sexes in insects. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2, series 4 (September): 205-212.


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Annals & Mag. of Nat. Hist Sep. 1868

p. 207. Herold has shewn that the germs of the reproductive organs in the cabbage butterfly shew a "perfectly distinctly visible distinction of the two sexes" in the egg.


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