RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Newport, Monograph of the Class Myriapoda, etc. CUL-DAR205.5.94. 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.

George Newport. 1844. Monograph of the Class Myriapoda, Order Chilopoda; with Observations on the General Arrangement of the Articulata. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 19: 265-302; 349-440.


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Athenaeum Linnaean Soc. (44) March 19. Newport on Myriapoda — not more allied the Crust or Arach. than to insects, with species pointing at affinity to these classes but allied to larvae of insects. Insects always have same number of legs. Myriapoda go on increasing.— Thinks articulata ought to come after Vertebrata.


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