The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. [Abstract of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1844]. CUL-DAR205.9.195. 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: The brown crayon number '22' indicates that this document was filed by Darwin in his portfolio for the subject of Palaeontology: extinction.

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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Phil. Trans. 1844. p. 82 Owen on Belemnite good case of old Genus uniting characters of several recent ones - belongs to highest division of Cephalopods. (One always is inclined to think a parent form must be the oldest this will generally happen, but not always

[Richard Owen. 1844. A Description of certain Belemnites, preserved, with a great proportion of their soft parts, in the Oxford Clay, at Christian-Malford, Wilts. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, vol. 134: 65-85.]

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