RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1858.09.30-12.29]. Draft of Origin of species, [Sect. 8, folio 320](B). NYPL-Berg-Coll-MSS-Darwin[.2]. (Cite as: John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 7.2026. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of William Huxley Darwin. This draft is in the New York Public Library, Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. Because of its place in the Origin draft and the pencil annotations, it is clear that this manuscript was one of many given away by Darwin's daughter, Henrietta Emma Litchfield, during her later life.
See the introduction to the Origin of species drafts by John van Wyhe
The text of the draft corresponds to Origin, Chapter VIII, Hybridism, pp. 274-5.
[320 (B)]
(a)(B)
For instance, I think those authors take a right view, who say that the ass has a prepotent power over the horse, so that both mule & hinny more resemble the ass than the horse; but that the prepotency runs more strongly in the male ass than in the female ass; so that the mule, which is the child of the male-ass is more like an ass, than is the hinny which is the child of the female-ass.
[insertion by Henrietta Litchfield:] p. 274 Ch VIII Origin
[there are pin holes at top left corner where this slip was attached to the back of folio 320]
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Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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