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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1856.05.09. Cuming says that the sea-shells. CUL-DAR205.3.205. 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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May 9th 1856

Cuming says that the sea-shells (& land shells) of E. &. W. inter tropical Africa totally distinct.

N. B. The ostrich Giraffe & Hippopotamus of Sewallik, shows whence S. African animals came from?

The New Zealand & T. del Fuego sea shells very different in the Terebratulæ Patellæ, Fissurellæ & in [illeg], &c altogether very different. Except in Trophon, in which the species (or vars) are very clearly allied. But this is Arctic genus also, & some abnormalities also.

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