RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1845]. Abstract of Humboldt, Kosmos, 1845. vol. 1. CUL-DAR205.9.237. 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].
Darwin recorded reading this book in October 1845.
Humboldt, Alexander von. 1845-8. Kosmos; a general survey of the physical phenomena of the universe. Translated by Augustin Prichard. 2 vols. London.
See CUL-DAR119.-
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Cosmos p. 299
Lindley says Lepidodendra comes between Coniferæ & Lycopoditeæ, more [illeg] than any other link between flowering & non-flowering plants (G)
p 303 Goeppert is going to write on the Amber – Tree & relations of Vegetation to living vegetation of Baltic
[Alexander von Humboldt. 1845. Kosmos: a general survey of physical phenomena of the universe, vol. 1. London: Hippolyte Baillière.]
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