RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Can it be shown that at every period some few forms have passed from one to other period. CUL-DAR205.9.277. 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: 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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Can it be shown that at every period some few forms have passed from one to other period, as some now & Eocene; some few Eocene & Chalk; Chalk & Oolite - Oolite & Lias & Lias & Trias - Trias & Permian. - If this cd be shown (ask Salter) no enormous change of condition from beginning of world to now???

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