RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of D'Orbigny, Voyage, Part. Géolog. CUL-DAR39.194. 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
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.
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not a word in C.R. T XIV about Pholadomya &c. (same list as in d'Orbigny)
MM. Hombron et Grange
[South America, p. 152: "M. d'Orbigny states* that MM. Hombron and Grange found in this neighbourhood an Ancyloceras, perhaps A. simplex, an Ammonite, a Plicatula and Modiola.
* Voyage, Part. Géolog. p. 242."]
Mr. d'orbigny Geologic p. 242. M. Gay has collected a Trigonica & Pholadomya at Coquimbo
[South America, p. 217: "I may add, before leaving Coquimbo, that M. Gay found in the neighbouring Cordillera, at the height of 14,000 feet above the sea, a fossiliferous formation, including a Trigonia and Pholadomya;*—both of which genera occur at the Puente del Inca.
* D'Orbigny, Voyage, Part. Géolog. p. 242."]
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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