RECORD: Sowerby, George Brettingham & Darwin, C. R. [drawings of shells] Pl. 2-4 [for South America (1846). Plates II-IV.]. CUL-DAR39.162-164. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 2.2026. 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-DAR39 contains Geological notes on South America.
See Darwin, C. R. 1846. Geological observations on South America. Text Image PDF F273 [Intro by G. Chancellor]
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1 Dentalium giganteum.
2 " sulcosum.
4,5,&6 Balanus varians, var.
7 Balanus Coquimbensis.
8 Mactra rugata.
9 " Darwinii.
10 Grassatella Lyellii.
11 Corbis lævigata.
12 Tellinides oblonga.
13 Venus meridionalis.
14 Cytherea suleulosa.
15 Cardium puelchltum.
16 " multiradiatum.
17 Cardita Patagonica.
18 Nucula glabra.
19 " ornata.
20,21 Trigonocelia insolita.
22-23 Cucullæa alta.
24 Pecten geminatus.
25 Anomia alternans.
26-27 Terebratula Patagonica.
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Pl. 3
[published captions:]
28-29 Pecten Darwinii.
30 " Paranensis d'orbig.
31 " centralis.
32 " rudis.
33 " actinoides.
34 Crepidula gregaria.
35 Bulla cosmophila.
36-37 Sigaretus subglobosus.
38 Natica pumila.
39 Natica striolata.
40-41 " solida.
42-43 Scalaria rugulosa & var.
44-45 Trochus collaris.
46-47 Trochus lævis.
48 Turritella Patagonica.
49 " ambulacrum.
50 " suturalis.
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Pl. 4
[published captions:]
51 Turritella Chilensis.
52 Pleurotoma subæqualis.
53 " turbinelloides.
54 " discors.
55 Fusus regularis.
56 " pyruliformis.
47 Fusus subrflexus.
58-59 " Noachinus.
60 " Patagonicus.
61 Pyrula distans.
62 Struthiolaria ornata.
63 Triton verruculosus.
64 " leucostemoides.
65 Cassis monilifer.
66-67 Monoceros ambiguus.
68-69 Gastridium Cepa.
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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