RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Heer, On the probable origin of the organized beings now living in the Azores, Madeira, and the Canaries. CUL-DAR205.2.149. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 5.2022. 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-DAR205.2 contains notes on means of distribution.
Oswald, Heer. 1856. On the probable origin of the organized beings now living in the Azores, Madeira, and the Canaries. Annals and magazine of natural history 18: 183-5.
Written in the hand of Emma Darwin.
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Geograph. Distribution
Annals & Mag. of Nat. Hist / 2nd series vol. 18. 1856 p 183. Trans. of letter from Heer to Alph. de Candolle.
In Madeira Canaries & Azores the American genera Clethra Bystropogon & Cedronella are represented by peculiar species. Pinus Canariensis belongs to an American section as do several forms in the laurel family. Accounts for this by these Islands retaining a tertiary European Character.
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