The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1843]. Abstract of Forbes, Athenaeum 1843: 777-8. CUL-DAR205.5.92. 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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Brit. Assoc.— Athenaeum — 43 — p. 777

gradation by saltus

E. Forbes remarks that some species of violet are apetalous & the common violet bears late flowers without petals = transition =

— He remarks, that an animal low in scale might possess functions of one higher in scale: thus Cephalopods present more vertebrate functions than many vertebrata —

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p 778 Forbes believes two species may be specifically alike when young & differ in mature age — disbelieves Agassiz that two species may be quite similar.

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