RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1855.03. I do not yet quite see why dying genera & therefore small genera shd not be often widely distributed. CUL-DAR205.9.275. 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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I do not yet quite see why dying genera & therefore small genera shd not be often widely distributed. Only a few genera can survive to a future period, for these few make families. Is it that when a genera once becomes widely extended it generally does live

March 1855


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