RECORD: A. C. V. D. d'Orbigny. [1846.01.31]. [List of Darwin's Bahia Blanca shells identified]. CUL-DAR39.128-129. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2022. RN1
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This is the previously unlocated enclosure to A. C. V. D. d'Orbigny 31 January 1846, Correspondence vol. 3, p. 280. In South America, p. 83, Darwin wrote: "M. d'Orbigny has been so obliging as to name for me the twenty species of mollusca embedded in the two gravel beds". Darwin listed the identifications of Orbigny on 23 shells of Bahia Blanca and San Blas. Other lists of shells from South America are in CUL-DAR43.1.
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[in Darwin's handwriting:] Compare this with 8 Orby Mollucs vivants
Toutes les …….. de la Bahia Blanca tout id ….. aun u….. follilis … Baie de San-Blas, et …. toutes vivants douis la mer vo…. par les meuin cotes. [passage mostly untranscribed]
+ 1. Volutella angulata, d'Orb. (viv. a la Bahia de San Blas)
+ 2 Voluta Braziliana, Soland. BB? — ug (d'Orb. moll. di l'am. Mer. et dans un Saliont del'amer. mer.
+ 3 Olivancilla brasilivum, d'Orb — ug
+ 4 O — auricularia, d'Orb B.B.— ug
5 - Olivina puelchana, d'Orb — ug
6 Olivancilla brasilivum, var. d'Orb — ug
+ 7 Buccinanops cochlidium, d'Orb — ug
+ 8 — globulosum. d'Orb B.B— ug
9 Colombella sertulariarum, d'Orb — ug
+10 Crochus patagonieus, d'Orb — ug
11 idem — idem. var. d'Orb — ug
12 Paludestrina australis, d' Orb — ug
13 Fissurella patagonica, d'Orb — ug
14 Crepidula muricata, Lam. ug
11 (J ne l'ou pas tronau.)
16 Venus purpurata, Lam. ug
17 Mytilus Darwinanus, d'Orb — ug
18 Nucula semiornata, d'Orb — ug
[in margin:] 4 certainly & probably 6 identical
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19 Cardita patagonica, d'Orb vvi. surluîoti.
20 Corbula . . . . . . .
21 Pecten tethuelchus, d'Orb — ug
BB 22 Ostrea puelchana, d'Orb — ug
23 Balanus ─ ug
24 Venus urtrata, Philippi ─ ug
25 Astræa Nov Sp. —
(21) & a Cycteræa identical
Coquilles de l'Uruguay
1. Venus Limosa, Lamarck.
2 Mactra Flubillunna, d'Orb.
[remainder untranscribed]
[in Darwin's handwriting:] Real salt-water
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