RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1872-1874]. Abstract of 8vo pamphlets. CUL-DAR87.173-176. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 3.2022. RN2

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-DAR87-90 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man 2d ed. (1874-1877).

See The Complete Library of Charles Darwin.


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8vo Pamp (706) Ogle. on Dextral Preeminence, common to monkeys — var Commoner to women & other mal-conformations Houzeau quotes Broderip

[Ogle, William. 1871. Dextral pre-eminence. Transactions of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London 54: 279-301. [CCD: "Darwin's copy of the article…is separately paginated, but the original page numbers have been added in pencil"][Darwin Pamphlet Collection 706] PDF]

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8vo Pamphlet (717) on Hermaphroditism of Eels.

[Ercolani, Giovanni Battista. 1872. Sull'ermafroditismo perfetto delle anguille. Bologna: Gamberini & Parmeggiani. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 717] Descent 2d ed., p. 161, n28: "Prof. Ercolani has recently shewn ('Accad. delle Scienze,' Bologna, Dec. 28, 1871) that eels are androgynous."]

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8vo Pamph (759) Gegenbaur on 2 leading forms of Nipples in Mammals, both probably derived from Monotremata

[Descent 2d ed., p. 162, n29: "Prof. Gegenbaur has shewn ('Jenaische Zeitschrift,' Bd. vii. p. 212) that two distinct types of nipples prevail throughout the several mammalian orders, but that it is quite intelligible how both could have been derived from the nipples of the Marsupials, and the latter from those of the Monotremata."]

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8vo Pamph (761) Forsyth Major on 2 or 3 Miocene Anthropomorphic apes.

[Major, Charles Immanuel Forsyth. 1872. Notes sur des singes fossiles trouvés en Italie, précédée d'un aperçu sur les quadrumanes fossiles en général. Atti della Società italiana di Scienze naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia naturale di Milano 15: 79-95. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 761] PDF]


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