RECORD: Darwin, C. R. Summer 1842 Notebook: ?: 3, 4, 5 (excised pages) [Notes on fossils and trout]. CUL-DAR208.71. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Kees Rookmaaker and John van Wyhe, 8.2010. RN2
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Sillimans Journal vo 1842. p. 142 — Sus americana & Hippotamus with Megatherium & Mylodon in post pliocene strata! Mastodon longirostris in miocene, like in Europe —
Cuvier never found remains of Sus with Elephants — Lyell says New Red Sandstone
[R. Harlan. 1842. Notice of two new fossil mammals from Brunswick canal, Georgia etc. American Journal of Science and Arts42: 141-144. abstract in CUL-DAR74.116-117.]
of. N. America is Red Sandstone. & Birds true! Plants in Devonian — How strange no plants in our Devonian —
Fish one step lower in America — How curious all negative laws of America of depth of organisms holding in America as in Britain.
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If there has been as much subsidence as elevation then all continents of cretaceous periods, together with their littoral deposits are probably buried in the depths of the sea — Maer. June /42/
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June /42/ — Mr Bunbury says has heard the Trout from different lakes of N. Wales can be distinguished — & Jackson here (Capel-Curig) says that he can certainly tell Trout from Ogwen, Capel Curig & some other lakes, & (different waters)
He cannot, however, tell them from L. Groznerat, on road to Bethgellert wh
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flows by Tremadoc. but can tell them from lake S. of Moel Siabod. wh. flows into Conway by Bettws & there joins streams from Capel-Curig —
[Betws-y-Coed]
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