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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of F. Műller. On the Metamorphoses of Prawns. Translated by W. S. Dallas, 1864. CUL-DAR205.6.77. 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].

F. Műller. On the Metamorphoses of Prawns. Translated by W. S. Dallas. Annals and magazine of natural history 14: 104-115.

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Embryology

Annals & M. of N. Hist 3rd Series Vol XIV. 1864. p 104

Trans. "On the Metamorphoses of Prawns by Dr Fritz Műller" States that he has traced these Crustaceans "back to Mysis forms destitute of chæle, thence so the form of a Zoea & one species still further so a Nauplius form, & consequently so that fundamental young form which unites the Rhizocephala & Lerneæ with the Cirripedes & the numerous group of the

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Cyclopidæ. "When we consider the enormous difference of the forms just mentioned & of the Podophthalmæ (tho' the Nauplius forms is concealed or lost in these latter) this is a wonderful case of the most dissimilar forms arising from the same.

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