RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. [Abstract of Athenaeum, 1842]. CUL-DAR205.9.168. 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 p. 734 /42/ it seems from Cuvier & Owen that teeth of some Anoplotherium's are scarcely to be distinguished from Ruminants, but their metacarpals & metatarsals are separate, whereas in all Ruminants quite distinct. In Macrauchenia they were half united.

[in margin:] Geolog.

 

[Richard Owen. 1842. [In a letter] The fossil in the Norwich Museum. Athenaeum, no. 772 (13 August): 734.]


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