RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Forbes, Athenaeum 1845: 199. CUL-DAR205.5.116. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 1.2023. 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-DAR205.5 contains notes on the principle of divergence, transitional organs and instincts.

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Athenaeum 1845 p. 199. Lecture by Prof. Forbes before R. Institution (perhaps will be published) — theoretical paper. — speaks of affinities branching off low down in each series — thus highest plant is not related to lowest animal, but a low plant to a low animal —

Thus low Molluscous animals is related to fish.—

Speaks much of analogies being parallel in series; of aberrant forms assuming types representing structure from of neighbouring series — of "analogy represents chiefly regarding form"— quite true (?) whale & fish.—

Much abstruse, perhaps mystical.—

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including Porphyritic

((Chiloe Bole & Wollaston Isd.)) (Pitchstone breccia

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