RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Lund, List of fossil mammifera from the basin of the Rio das Velhas, etc. CUL-DAR205.2.193. 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.

Lund, [Peter Wilhelm]. 1839. List of fossil mammifera from the basin of the Rio das Velhas, with an extract of some of their distinguishing characters. Annals of Natural History 3: 422-7.

The brown crayon number '18' indicates that this document was filed by Darwin in his portfolio for the subject of Migration.


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Lund has remarked on relation (in Mag. of Nat. History) of Cave Brazil animals & Cordillera.— Bears, Auchenia, & some as Bears N. forms.— Now then I suspect come in during glacial period — Introduce after Bejaria.— The age of B. Blanca fossils — & their relation to those of Caves wd quite harmonise with this view Consider what are Lund's facts.— Is the fossil Antelope the N. American form?

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