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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Tchihatcheff, Voyage scientifique dans l'Altaï oriental et les parties adjacentes de la frontière de Chine, fait par ordre de S. M. l'empereur de Russie. CUL-DAR205.3.201. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 1.2022. RN2

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.

Pierre de Tchihatcheff. 1845. Voyage scientifique dans l'Altaï oriental et les parties adjacentes de la frontière de Chine, fait par ordre de S. M. l'empereur de Russie. Paris.

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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Voyage Scientifique dans l'Altai par M. P. de Tchihatcheff 1845

p 449 Europe 143 mammals - : Siberia 92

Siberia has 26 species proper to Siberia, & 3 genera proper. Europe has 12 genera & 25 species proper. - N. America has a [illeg] of genera which are compensated by other genera in Asia & Europe, & has 1/3 of species proper, & different proportions of species as compared to Europe & Siberia. - Yet allows a unity of type with Europe & Asia.

p 456 in Kamtchatka one sees certain forms decidedly American, as Ovis montana & Spermophilus Parryi - & therefore is a tendency in Siberian mammalogy towards N. America.

p 465 - 45 F. W. Fishes, the greater part of species common to Europe - Carps & Silurus great families in Europe, Asia & N. America.

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