RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. [Note on Horns of Cattle.] CUL-DAR88.125. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 9.2021. 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-DAR 87-90 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man 2d ed. (1874-1877).
Descent, p. 521, note: "'Atti della Soc. Italiana di Sc. Nat.' 1873, vol. xv. fasc. iv."[125]
Descent of Man
Put foot-note under Horn of Cattle – Dr C. Forsyth Major informs me that in the Val d'Arno a skull has been found what is believed to be the female of B. etruscus & was hornless, & this supports the above view in striking manner.
Also note case of several Miocene spec of Sus. Pigs in which the canine in neither sex projected above the others, so that the great tusks of the Boar are a recent acquisition.
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