RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Bell, History of British Quadrupeds. CUL-DAR85.B115. 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 1: 305, n42: "Bell, 'History of British Quadrupeds,' p. 100."


[B115]

Bell's Hist of B. Quadrupeds

p. 100 "The males are much more numerus than the females" (an animal likely to be [illeg] as Habits completely altered & a trade followed in catching them

(Azara says the same of Guanaco.)

(Moles)


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