RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Allen, On the eared seals (Otariadæ), with detailed descriptions of the north pacific species. CUL-DAR45.37. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 10.2022. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR45 contains notes for Natural selection chap. 4 'Variation under nature'.
Darwin cited this in Descent 2: 259, n32: "See the very interesting paper by Mr. J. A. Allen in 'Bull. Mus. Comp. Zoolog. of Cambridge; United States,' vol. ii. No. 1, p. 82. The weights were ascertained by a careful observer, Capt. Bryant."
Allen, J. A. 1870. On the eared seals (Otariadæ), with detailed descriptions of the north pacific species. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 2, no. 1: 1-45 and Charles Bryant; Allen, J. A. 1870. On the habits of the northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus Gray), with a description of the Pribyloff Group of Islands. Ibid: 89-108.
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Variability
Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool Cambridge. Mass. Vol. 2. No. 1. J. A. Allen
on the Eared seals p. 3 & whole paper very good on variability extreme of in very important characters — Flower has copy. —
[Another abstract is in CUL-DAR83.57.]
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