The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Couthouy, Remarks upon coral formations in the Pacific, etc. CUL-DAR205.9.199. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and John van Wyhe, 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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Mr. Couthouy Remarks on Coral For.—

p. 52 on an extinct oyster at Sandwich Archipe — all other shells being recent or analogous to recent.—

[Couthouy, Joseph P. 1842. Remarks upon coral formations in the Pacific; with suggestions as to the causes of their absence in the same parallels of latitude on the coast of South America. Boston: Tuttle & Dennett.]

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* Note to p. 107)

Mr. Couthouy states that (Remarks p 44) the space between the reef & the shore (at Tahiti and Eimeo) has been nearly filled up by the extension of those coral reefs of which within most barrier-reefs many fringe the land. From this circumstance he arrives at the same [line excised]

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