RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1852.01. When I think on the breaks in the scale, I feel convinced that the number of animal & lapse of formation during which they lived so vast. CUL-DAR205.9.245. 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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Jany 1852. When I think on the breaks in the scale, I feel convinced that the number of animal & lapse of formation during which they lived so vast, that seem if every formation before the Tertiary were destroyed, yet it wd hardly make the present series less complete, so poor it is already.
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