The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1857.11. The abnormal Insects & Birds on islds (plants too easily diffused) - the fishes & shells. CUL-DAR205.9.334. 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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Nov. 1857

The abnormal Insects & Birds on islds (plants too easily diffused) - the fishes & shells of F. W. having a fossil character. The abnormal character of F. W. Plants (as Hooker agrees with me is case) No No (there is no reason why more shd be abnormal than of land Plants - Marsh Plants; not connected for others cd get so easily adapted: there is reason, like in any isolated spot, that the F. W. Plants, shd belong to many genera) may all be compared to the remnants of broken races of man in mountainous recesses - they are interesting under this view as living fossils. Easy to see why molasses have not such. Glacial.

[Left margin:] Come under "exterminations" or Ch. 6.

[Right margin:] Cocos Is Mar. The several Coniferæ in New. Zealand.

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