The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. If we look at some of the great breaks in formations as between Cretaceous & Eocene beds. CUL-DAR205.9.266. 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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If we look at some of the great breaks in formations as between Cretaceous & Eocene beds & neglect all organic remains we naturally conclude an immense period must have elapsed to have changed while geographical state of area – The suddenness of the change is a mere begging the question from suddenness of change in organic being – (whether will [apply] to the [six] change of ammonites in the Chalk [over]

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of Fauna are [illeg] by D'Orbigny = The [foregoing] argument applies only to those who follow out existing analogies = We see how long the bed of the Sea (?) Many remain without being added to

Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)