The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1841]. Abstract of Athenaeum, 1841. CUL-DAR205.9.142. (Cite as: John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. 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. 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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Athenaeum 1841. p. 649. Brit. Assoc. abstract of Owens Report on Reptiles — old forms constantly intermediate.

The Question is would naturalist of Red Sandstone era have made orders of reptiles as we now do - he not knowing the now existing forms — [seeing] the characters, natural & not diagnostic wh. now include every reptile would not hold good - though their forms may be most conveniently classed under reptiles.

Owen, Richard. 1841. Report on British fossil reptiles. Athenaeum (21 August): 649. PDF

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