RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Orbigny, Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale. CUL-DAR205.9.228. 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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D'Orbigny (Voyage Part. Geolog)
p. 56 finds in Rio Negro bed extinct Unio & an indeterminable "Chilina", which genus, as yet, know only in th southern region of S. America -
No doubt an extinct species
Fresh-Water Genus.
[Orbigny, Alcide Dessalines d'. 1842. Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale, etc. 3: 56.]
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