RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Wood, Variations in human myology observed during the winter session of 1867-68 at King's College, London. CUL-DAR85.B121. 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: 109, n5: "'Proc. Royal Soc.' 1867, p. 544; also 1868, p. 483, 524. There is a previous paper, 1866, p. 229."
John Wood. 1868. Variations in human myology observed during the winter session of 1867-68 at King's College, London. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. 16, no. 104 (18 June): 483-525.
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Proc. Royal Soc. 1868 (no. 104) p 524. - It will suffice to give conclusion "The greatest number of abnormalities in each subject is found in the males" (add nothing else - but say that he had previously remarked p. 519. "Altogether in 102 subjects these variations of redundancy were found to be half as many again in males as in females, contrasting widely with the greater frequency of deficiency in females before described."
(Variability of Males)
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