RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Murchison seems to have made out that the Permian system is intermediate in its Flora like Devonian in Wales. CUL-DAR205.9.236. 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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Murchison seems to have made out that the Permian system is intermediate in its Flora like Devonian in Wales (? other organism/between the New Red & Carboniferous – yet in some parts of England, how beautifully they pass into each other. Mem Sedgwick – on Russia the New Red has been much denuded before deposition of Oolites – When speaking of age, insist upon denudation even more forcibly than

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a process of long time with composition of beds =


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