RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Humboldt Personal narrative VII: 52. CUL-DAR42.100. Transcribed by Kees Rookmaaker. (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/).

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Kees Rookmaaker, edited by Rookmaaker and John van Wyhe 3.2011. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with the permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR42 contains notes for Darwin's book South America (1846).

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Vol. VII. p. 52. Pers. Narr:1

This tertiary formation (talking a calcareous agglomerate of Cuba.) no doubt belongs to that of the coast of Cumana, Carthagena and the great land of Guadaloupe, of which I have spoken in my geognostic table

The Pot. labiata2 certainly found with the Mactra at Buenos Ayres (copied)

1 Humboldt 1819-1829, 7: 52.

2 Potamomya labiata. This sentence is found in Notebook A CUL-DAR127, page 37e. See Fossil mammalia.


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