RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1874]. Abstract of Younge, Life of J. C. Patteson. CUL-DAR90.16. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 1.2023. 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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It is evident from many passages in the life of Bishop Patteson (Life of J. C. Patteson by C. M. Yonge 1874: see more especially Vol I p 530) that the aborigines of the several Melanesian archipelagos suffered in health to an extraordinary degree many having died— when removed to any other island, even one within the Tropics
[Descent, 2d ed., p. 185]
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