RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1845]. Abstract of Bettington, paper on Ruminant carcasses washed down river to Gulf of Cambray. CUL-DAR39.168. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles 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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Abstract of A. Bettington paper for Royal Asiatic Society (21 June 1845). Athenaeum no. 923, p. 662.
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Asiatic Soc 45 June 21 Mr. Bettington River in gulf of Cambray wash down carcasses of oxen, deer bear &c Athenaeum 45 p. 662
[South America, p. 99: "Only on this view of the Pampean formation having been of estuary origin, can the extraordinary numbers (presently to be alluded to) of the embedded mammiferous remains be explained.*
* It is almost superfluous to give the numerous cases (for instance in Sumatra; Lyell's Principles, vol. iii. p. 325, sixth edit.), of the carcasses of animals having been washed out to sea by swollen rivers; but I may refer to a recent account by Mr. Bettington (Asiatic Soc. 1845, June 21st), of oxen, deer, and bears being carried into the Gulf of Cambray; see, also, the account in my Journal (2nd edit. p. 133), of the numbers of animals drowned in the Plata during the great, often recurrent, droughts."]
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