RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1871-1874]. Abstract of Alexander Macalister; Alph. Milne-Edwards. CUL-DAR87.6. 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).
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Annals & Mag. of N. Hist. May 1871 p. 242 On Muscles of Ears &c of Chimpanzee
Annals & Mag of N. Hist Dec 1871 p. 438 Embryological Lemuridae very distant from monkey
Milne-Edwards, Alphonse. 1871. Observations of some points in the embryology of the Lemuroidea, and on the zoological affinities of those animals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4th ser. 8 no. 48: 438-440. [CUL-DAR.LIB.PER-U327] PDF
Macalister, Alexander. 1871. On some points in the myology of the chimpanzee and others of the primates. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4th ser. 7 no. 41: 341-351. [CUL-DAR.LIB.PER-U320] PDF Darwin cited this in Descent 2d ed., p. 14, n30: "Prof. A. Macalister, 'Annals and Mag. of Nat. History,' vol. vii., 1871, p. 342."
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