The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. [Abstract of Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1824]. CUL-DAR205.9.85. 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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Phil Transacts 1824. p. 413 Mr Dillwyn on the very gradual approximation of ancient shells to present time (with remarks on the order in which they appear) Is not this so in Fish; in Mammalia, Plants &c Reptiles? This alone is important element in my theory.

It is very remarkable there being some present genera of shells in old times - any fish? corals? Does not this law especially bear on higher animals?

[Lewis Weston Dillwyn. 1824. A letter from Lewis Weston Dillwyn, Esq. addressed to Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. P. R. S. (Read 25 March). Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London, 114: 413-418.]

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