RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Athenaeum, 1854. CUL-DAR205.9.258. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 10.2021. 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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Athenæum 1854 p. 1243. Brit. Assoc. Phillips convinced only one system of life below Devonian, divisible into 3 groups. Mr. Norris called attention to law by D'Archiac that when the number of a group of rocks was much divided, then they contained different types of fossils, but where the rocks were concentrated, the fossils also were mixed together. There is Sweden where the Silurian strata were not 200 ft thick, the organic forms were more numerous than in England, but not divided into such distinct groups.
[R. I. Murchison. 1854. General observation on the Palæozoic Rocks of Germany. Athenaeum, no. 1407 (14 October): 1243.]
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