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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Review of Yarrell's History of British birds. CUL-DAR205.3.85. 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.

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Westminster Review March 1840. p. 375. Review on Yarrell's Book

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p. 375 observes that same identical species being found in very distant & far countries a most important fact on theory of species (for if exposed to many circumstances, & yet forms found to be constant, it may be [illeg] they will never change) but in p. 377 reviewer remarks (& gives instances sparrow, wagtails) of many instances of representative species, which may be advanced as showing when communication cut off, species does change. So Andrew Smith some birds common to Equator / Cape - Some close species, but different.

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