RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Bell states that Land-Salamander cannot from being land undergo the normal Metamorphosis. CUL-DAR205.6.16. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 11.2021. 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-DAR205.6 contains notes on embryology [pigeons].

The brown crayon number '12' indicates that this document was filed by Darwin in his portfolio for the subject of Embryology. 


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Bell states that Land Salamander cannot from being land undergo the normal Metamorphosis but it undergoes it in womb - investigate this because if same structure & if that structure in other larva is adapted to water, good case.

Thinks analogous facts, in the exceptions in land-crabs


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