The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. [Abstract of British Association for the Advancement of Science report, 1839]. CUL-DAR205.9.108. 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: 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-DAR205.9 contains notes on palaeontology and geology [regarding theory of evolution].

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Report of the 9th (1839) Meeting of th Brit. Assoc Owen on British Fossil Reptiles - solid structure of back of head of Ichthyosaurus "as this is an adaptive rather than a typical conformation, it affords but a slender argument for their affinity" (repeated elsewhere)

p 97. "the inferior or Lacertian Saurians" the intermediate or annectant characters of Ichthyosaurus between the Crocodiles & Lizards" is exemplified in remarkable manner by that part of both jaws which supports the teeth: (what is order of Crocodiles & true Saurians.)

Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)