RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. The best test of highness & lowness is if equal number of productions were taken from one country to other. CUL-DAR205.9.317. 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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The best test of highness & lowness is if equal number of productions were taken from one country to other & [illeg] that country, which gave most to other, would be the highest. In this sense Europe higher than Australia & S. America - Perhaps then no arena but then aquatic & road plants - it is possible that constitution of Weeds altered so as to fit. (Buckman?) Isld low (here discuss abnormal plants & F. W. productions) but these not stocked sufficiently - & far more imported.
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Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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