The Foundations of the Origin of Species

This corresponds to the Origin, Ed. i. p. 441, vi. p. 607, where, however, the example is taken from the Cirripedes.

466

Origin, Ed. i. p. 449, vi. p. 617.

467

This corresponds to the Origin, Ed. i. pp. 443-4, vi. p. 610: the “feline animal” is not used to illustrate the generalisation, but is so used in the Essay of 1842, p. 42 (#Page_42).

468

Origin, Ed. i. p. 447, vi. p. 613.

469

In the margin is written “Get young pigeons”; this was afterwards done, and the results are given in the Origin, Ed. i. p. 445, vi. p. 612.

470

In the Origin, Ed. i. the corresponding passages are at pp. 8, 13, 443, vi. pp. 8, 15, 610. In the Origin, Ed. i. I have not found a passage so striking as that which occurs a few lines lower “that the germinal vesicle is impressed with some power which is wonderfully preserved, &c.” In the Origin this preservation is rather taken for granted.

471

«In the margin is written» Aborted organs show, perhaps, something about period «at» which changes supervene in embryo.

472

See p. 42, note 5 (#cn_159).

473

The evidence is given in Var. under Dom., I. p. 316.

474

Origin, Ed. i. p. 444, vi. p. 610.

475

In Var. under Dom., Ed. ii. vol. I. p. 295, such eggs are said to be laid early in each season by the black Labrador duck. In the next sentence in the text the author does not distinguish the characters of the vegetable capsule from those of the ovum.

476

This seems to me to be more strongly stated here than in the Origin, Ed. i.

477

Origin, Ed. i. p. 444, vi. p. 611.

478

Origin, Ed. i. p. 441, vi. p. 607.

479

Compare Origin, Ed. i. p. 419, vi. p. 575.

480

«Note in original.» Scarcely possible to distinguish between non-development and retrograde development.

481

See p. 42 (#Page_42), where the same illustration is used.

482

Var. under Dom., Ed. ii. vol. I. p. 452.

483

Origin, Ed. i. p. 441, vi. p. 607.

484

Origin, Ed. i. p. 449, vi. p. 617.

485

Origin, Ed. i. p. 449, vi. p. 618.

486

In the Origin, Ed. i. p. 450, vi. p. 619, the author does not lay stress on any distinction in meaning between the terms abortive and rudimentary organs.

487

Origin, Ed. i. p. 450, vi. p. 619.

488

Ibid.

489

This argument occurs in Origin, Ed. i. p. 451, vi. p. 619.

490