RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Emma Darwin. [1843.01.09]. Abstract of Kalm, Travels into North America: containing its natural history. CUL-DAR205.10.40. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 9.2020. RN4
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin.
Darwin recorded reading this work in his 'Books to be read / Books Read' notebook. CUL-DAR119.-.
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Kalm 3/58 The skins of beavers cats lynxes & martins are more valued & become gradually better & better the further they are caught northward. & the reverse.
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[Quoted in Natural selection, p. 100.]
[Kalm, Pehr. 1770-1. Travels into North America; containing its natural history, and a circumstantial account of its plantations and agriculture in general. Trans. by J. R. Forster. 3 vols. Warrington. Peter Kalm (1716-79), a Swedish botanist and naturalist of Finnish descent.]
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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