RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1847.06.26. Forbes' paper on cystideæ shows. CUL-DAR205.9.229. 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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June 26 /47/ Forbes' paper on cystideæ shows that the encrinites are the parent-forms (these found as low down as any fossils) whence the cystideæ branch out into Echinus & Asterias - It certainly seems very clear that in the oldest formations, every class comes in with high & low forms; in short we have no trace of a beginning.
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