RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1857.02.17. L[y]ells letter to Horner Heer says all the M. Bolca fossil plants different from Heers Lower Miocene. CUL-DAR205.9.325. 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 '21' 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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L[y]ells letter to Horner Heer says all the M. Bolca fossil plants different from Heers Lower Miocene = Lyells Upper Eocene

Heer much struck in Miocene & Pliocene collections of Switzerland with American character

Wyman has Ophidian from Coal of Ohio


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