RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1874-1875]. Abstract of Belt, Naturalist in Nicaragua. CUL-DAR89.66. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 11.2021. 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).


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G above mimetic & notary a certain character

Belt p. 316 Protection of Butterflies – Ants & Spiders mimicry & all stinging insects

[Darwin cited this in Descent 2d ed., n12, p. 277: "'The Naturalist in Nicaragua,' 1874, pp. 316–320."]

p 383-385 good & sexual selection

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[part of draft of Expression, chapter 9, p. 234.]

when sulky or a little angered, protruded their lips in the same manner as do the existing anthropoid apes, it is not an anomalous fact should


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