RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. [Abstract of Athenaeum, 1840]. CUL-DAR205.9.118. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles 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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Athenaeum 40. p 823. Lyell mentions two cones from the lower oolite a cypreæ & a Conus has been found in the chalk of Denmark. These are the only shells of Lamarck's family "enroulée" which are so abundant in tert. form hitherto found in secondary rocks.
Lyell, Charles. 1840. On the occurrence of two species of shells of the genus conus, in the Lias or inferior Oolite, near Caen, in Normandy. Athenaeum 2 (17 October): 823.
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