RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1847.09. When one thinks of 2 or 3 species of genera of Marsup. in Secondary rocks. CUL-DAR205.9.232. 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].
The note at the top indicates that this was displayed at the Darwin exhibition at Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1909. See the J.C. Simpson Collection in Darwin Online.[232]
Original given to Simpson who got up Xts D Exhibit 1909
Sept /47.
When one thinks of 2 or 3 species of genera of Marsup. in Secondary rocks - of Saurians in the Coal, of Cephalopods in lowest Silurian, one is apt to look at (the greater part) every great division of the animal kingdom as having been long ago created and one (conceals) shrouds in the mystery of time the act of creation; but in the Teleostioas (sic) fishes (ie Clemoids <?> & Cycloids of Agassiz) we have all the many great orders, created from the chalk inclusions (Lyell will have an immense period) - One cannot suppose all these orders existed in other parts of world or in lakes; - there must have been immense creation and enormous extinction, without a vestige being left - So the Cetacea, so remote form other mammals must have been created since Secondary period. (though how many <?> intermediate forms may have been lost in rivers) - Barnacles, which cover every rock, since Secondary
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Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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