RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1854.03. Abstract of, Catalogue of Shells collected at Panama, etc. CUL-DAR205.3.155. 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.
C. B. Adams. 1852. Catalogue of Shells collected at Panama, with notes on Synonymy, Station, and Habitat. Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York 5: 229-549.
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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Catalogue of Shells, collected at Panama by C. B. Adams. - Ann. Lyceum New York June 1852. p. 230 - A large number of shells chiefly littoral which occur at Panama occur at Galapagos. - Gives list of 20 species either littoral or shallow water species, in common.
Argues if transported as spawn from Panama to Galapagos, singular that that there shd be none identical further W. in Pacific. In the W. Indies there are as many analogous as in Polynesia.
p 233. Only 1 species identical on 2 coasts of Panama, viz Crepidula unguiformis, which inhabits inside of dead shells. I have somewhere seen odd statement of Birds carrying
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p 234 gives list of analogous on the two sides of the Isthmus.
The above Crepidula unguiforms (p. 455) - found on shores of: United States Mediterranean; Senegal; Jamaica; Chiloe; Panama; - It is all fossil at Bordeaux. - Falconer &c.
March 1854
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