RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Forbes, On the natural history features of the North Atlantic. CUL-DAR205.3.137. 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.
Edward Forbes. 1847. On the natural history features of the North Atlantic. Athenaeum, no. 1021 (22 May): 550-551.
The brown crayon number '19' indicates that this document was filed by Darwin in his portfolio for the subject of Island endemism: animals.
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Athenaeum 1847 p. 550 Forbes Lectures on the Nat. Hist of the N. Atlantic - Northern division identical in species - Senegal & Caribbean sea few species in common - but the latter & Lusitanian only analogy with Carolinian & Bostonian - Nothing else. Prof Loven agrees independently with Forbes' view.
[in margin:] ancient Tertiary terra connection hence the analogy further south.
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