RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1846.] Abstract of Elie de Beaumont, 1845. CUL-DAR205.9.217. 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].
Darwin recorded skimming this book on 27 May 1846.
See CUL-DAR119.-[217]
Elie de Beumont.
p. 65 Lecons de Geolog. Pratique
"Tout semble même annoncer que des formes analogues se sont succede dans les differentes parties de la terre dans le même ordre; car on les trouve constammen superposes suivant la même loi".
If external causes were cause of specific forms, this wd not hold in different parts of World, viz Chalk. Borneo, India, S. America.
[Jean Baptiste Armand Louis Léonce Elie De Beaumont. 1845. Leçons de géologie pratique, professées au Collège de France, etc. vol. 1. Paris.]
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
File last updated 25 September, 2022