RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Don, Descriptions of Indian Gentianeæ. CUL-DAR205.5.78. 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.
David Don. 1837. Descriptions of Indian Gentianeæ. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 17: 503-32.
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Linn. Trans. 17 p. 504 "D. Don on Indian Gentianeæ." "Although the Gentianeæ undoubtedly constitute a very natural family, agreeing remarkably in their habits & structures, & also in their sensible properties, they afford very few absolute marks to distinguish them from the other families, to which they are related. When taken in an extended sense, the Gentianeæ, may be said to hold an intermediate position between Apocyneæ & Rubiaceæ, differing from the former to which they are more intimately allied" &c &c.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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