RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1839.01.09. Dr. Harlaam showed some incisors, very much larger intermediates between Capybara & Toxodon than Beaver & Capybara. CUL-DAR205.9.67. 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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Jan 9th 1839. Geolog. Soc.
Dr. Harlaam showed some incisors, very much larger intermediates between Capybara & Toxodon than Beaver & Capybara, gigantic. (Has been compared with these animals) How very curious, gigantic rodents in N. America as well as in S. America— (Described in Silliman's Journal about eight' months since).
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