The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. [Abstract of Athenaeum, 1841]. CUL-DAR205.9.142. 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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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 – [illeg] 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. 1841. Report on British Fossil reptiles. Athenaeum, vol. 2 (21 August): 649.]

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