The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Couch, Some particulars of the natural history of fishes found in Cornwall. CUL-DAR205.10.54. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 5.2023. RN1

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. The volume CUL-DAR205.10 contains notes on variation and varieties. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin.

Jonathan Couch. 1825. Some particulars of the natural history of fishes found in Cornwall. Transactions of the Linnean Society 14: 69-92.

[54]

Linn. Trans. Vol XIV. Mr Couch on Fishes of Cornwall

p. 73. a variety of Gadus mustela possesses 5 barbs — both varieties subject to great variation of colour. — has seen common Ling. G. molva, with two cirri at the throat. —

(Q)

[Quoted in Natural selection, (F1583) p. 110.]

p 83 Common Trout sports into innumerable varieties, as might be expected, when it considered that they have no opportunity of obliterating any peculiarity, which might arise, by mixing it by crossing with fishes of other rivers.— (but this applies to most f. water fish.—)

Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)