RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1844.02.22. All except one or two Panama & Guayaquil Marine shells at the Galapagos peculiar. CUL-DAR205.3.109. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 1.2022. 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-DAR205.3 contains notes on distribution of animals.
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Cuming. Feb. 22 /44/. All except one or two Panama & Guayaquil Marine shells at the Galapagos peculiar, - yet he shd have known they were west coasts of America from number of Fissurellæ, from the general shape of the Purpuræ & from a Monoceros - Collected only few coast shells at Juan Fernandez. Many, certainly 50, perhaps 200 same in all the Low Islands, in the Phillippines & on coast of Zanzibar (good evidence) identical here in 1/2 hemisphere. = from pole to pole. Cape of Good Hope & Australia, peculiar groups. Red Sea rather peculiar & almost wholly different from X Mediterranean. - Brazil & East West Africa almost different, but some (general features in common - Chains of isld appear means of travelling
No Phillippines
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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