Manuscript

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Darwin's handwriting.

[On the Origin of Species]

Fragment of the original manuscript of Darwin's celebrated classic "The Origin of the Species". [ca. 1859].

This single leaf of Darwin's manuscript from On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection represents approximately the last half of page 185 and the first half of page 186 of the published edition of 1859. It is said that few of the original pages of the manuscript survived because the Darwin children used it for scratch paper.

Gift of Robert B. Honeyman, 1920