[{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].
[{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.