RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. [Abstract of L'Institut, 1839]. CUL-DAR205.9.71-74,79. 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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L' Institut. 1839.
p. 2. M. Lartet, an animal intermediate between dog & otter
p. 3 new Pachyderm. very curious
{M. Blainville has given lecture on distribution of fossil Mammifers 14 Janu. 1839
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L'Institut 1839 p 2 on fossils between dog & otter - this is good case, because otter has been taken as an instance
p. 3. on new Pachyderm intermediate between Pachyd & Rum - like Macrauchenia
p. 53. on the old Edentata by Blainville, wonderful inosculating forms
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L'Institut 1839 p. 110. an animal intermediate between otter & badger
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L'Institut 1839 p 126. an account of Mr Lund's fossils of Brazil
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L' Institut 1839 p. 178 account of some fossil Insectiv Carniv closely allied to existing species.
p. 192 some unimportant remarks on range of Dinotherium probably found in Crimea.
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