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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.

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.

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.

Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)