The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Forbes, Report on the Pulmoniferus Mollusca in the British Isles. CUL-DAR205.3.98-99. 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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E. Forbes Report on the Pulmoniferus Mollusca in the British Isles.

[insertion:] Brit. Assoc 9th. meeting 1839

p. 128. "several species, limited in their distribution, seem confined to certain rocks in our country, we find them in other countries, where their distribution is more general, indifferent as to the soil on which they live." like plants,

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p. 144. The distribution of the aquatic Pulmonifera more equal or general than that of the terrestrial. 3 species of Limneus have very wide ranges to N. America & Cashmere & the genera Limneus thyra & Planorbis found all over world. - some of the species of Planorbis have wide ranges.

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