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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 (The Complete Work of Charles 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. 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.

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: 183-185.

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