RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Schomburgk, History of Barbados. CUL-DAR205.9.224. 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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Sir R. Schomburgk. History of Barbados p 563. Tellina lacunosa abundant in fossil state, rare in recent, only one found in W. Indies - Lucina edentata abundant in fossil, absent in fossil state at Barbados, but found frequent at Virgin Isd (Fossil shells larger than recent-) Other analogous cases
[Robert Hermann Schomburgk. 1848. The History of Barbados, etc. Longman, Brown, Green and Langmans.]
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