The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. and Emma Darwin n.d. [Abstract of Athenæum, 1840]. CUL-DAR205.9.119. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 5.2021. RN2

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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Athenæum, 1840 p. 824. Mr Forbes states that listera compressa & Tellina solidula have become extinct within the memory of man on the Manx shores, from the change of course of the Sulby river.

Mentions a plistocene formation characterized by a nucula different from the living nucula in analogous situation but I don't quite understand description.

[Edward Forbes. 1840. On a Pleistocene Tract in the Isle of Man, and the relations of its fauna to that of the neighbouring sea. Athenaeum, 2 (17 October): 824.]

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