RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1840]. Abstract of Hunter, Observations on the gillaroe trout, etc. CUL-DAR205.5.37. 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.
John Hunter. 1774. Observations on the gillaroe trout, commonly called in Ireland, the gizzard. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 64, issue 64 (Dec.): 310-17.
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Phil. Trans. 1774. Part. I. p. 312. J. Hunter on Gillaroe Gillaroe Trout. "The two extremes of true gizzard & membranous stomach are easily defined, but they run so into each other, that the end of one, & the beginning of the other are quite imperceptible" "Similar gradations are observed in the food—" Yet kill intermediate form how different gizzard of fowl & stomach of Hawk —
Mullet has strongest of fish muscular stomach & this Trout second─ Lobsters teeth in stomach
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