RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Hooker's Miscellany. CUL-DAR205.3.214. 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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Hooker Misc. 2/308 Capt Carmichael says snails were introduced into Mauritius for pectoral complaints, have multiplied so as to become a nuisance.

p. 338 Gracula tristis is the bird introduced against locusts. Says rana esculenta is the only frog. (see what Frog I found.)


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