RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Athenaeum, 1840. CUL-DAR205.9.107. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 9.2021. RN1
NOTE: The brown crayon number '22' indicates that this document was filed by Darwin in his portfolio for the subject of Palaeontology: extinction.
Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR205.9 contains notes on palaeontology and geology [regarding theory of evolution].
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Athenaeum /40/ p 800. Murchison describes the oolites in Russia directly superimposed on the Carboniferous & hence concludes Russia was land, when New Red S. was depositing in Europe - Where are land animals???
[Murchison and M. E. de Verneuil. 1840. On the stratified deposits which constitute the northern and central regions of Russia. Athenaeum, 2 (10 October): 800.]
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