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The eight-page quarto pamphlet Questions About the Breeding of Animals (see Appendix to this essay) is a rare and, until recently, unpublished work of Charles Darwin. 1 Only a single copy, that in the Library of the British Museum (Natural History), was known until recently, when a copy was located in a collection of documents at the University Library, Cambridge, England.
The privately printed pamphlet, distributed by Darwin himself, bears no printer's mark---only the signature "C. Darwin--12, Upper Gower Street, London." It consists of twenty-one numbered paragraphs which contain forty-eight questions, e The printed sections (of 9 cm width) have been placed to the left of each page, presumably to leave the even wider margins created for the inclusion of annotated responses. The pamphlet bears no date.
Dating of the Questions: One of the only references to the Questions that can be found is that made by Darwin in the following extract from his autobiography, in which he records that, upon opening his first transmutation notebook in July, 1837, '] worked 1. The present paper was begun in the Fail of 1967, finished that winter, and submitted in the Spring of 1968. I am gratefully indebted to Dr. Richard B. Freeman of University College, London, for first providing me with a copy of the Questions--as well as a good deal of relevant information-without which this paper would not be possible. A Facsimile of the Ques-
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