RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1868.04.21. [Sketch of family tree of primates]. CUL-DAR80.B91. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and John van Wyhe, edited by John van Wyhe 10.2021, 2025. 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-DAR80-86 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man (1871).
[B91]
[sketch of family tree of primates]
Man. Homo Man Man. Hylobates Gorilla & Hylobates Orang-Utan Gorilla & [illeg] Hylobates Cercopithecus Macacus, Baboons Semnopithecus
Old World Monkeys New World Monkey Lemuridæ.
Primates
Huxley p 99 New Book
/April 21 — 68/
[B91v]
Argument as far as I can make out by comparing the works view of Huxley various naturalists in whose judgement much reliance can be placed* — For myself I have no claim whatever to form an opinion.
Huxley — St. George Mivart.
Huxley, Thomas Henry. 1863. Evidence as to man's place in nature. London: Williams and Norgate. [inscribed] CUL-DAR.LIB.313 link PDF
Mivart, St George Jackson. 1865. Contributions towards a more complete knowledge of the axial skeleton in the primates. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (27 June): 545-592. [CUL-DAR.LIB.PER-U1378] PDF
See CUL-DAR80.B88-B90 and compare this with Mivart's fig. 13.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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