RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1852.01.16. Mr Woodward tells me…land shells common near Tomb of Napoleon. CUL-DAR205.3.142. 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.
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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Jan 16. 1852. Mr Woodward tells me that Mr Benson f. land shells common near Tomb of Napoleon on St Helena, which was brought from Madeira - one at C. of Good Hope from Europe - at Ascension a central Asian form
Dr. Gould says Chain isld in Pacific a mart; & there many sorts of shells f. I must read Dr. Gould.
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