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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 (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 10.2022. RN2

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." [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. —

Allen, Joel Asaph and Bryant, Charles. 1871. On the eared seals (Otariadae), with detailed descriptions of the North Pacific species. Together with an account of the habits of the Northern Fur Seal (Callorhinus ursinus), by Charles Bryant. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College, in Cambridge 2 no. 1: 1-89, 89-108, 3 pls. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 702] PDF Another abstract is in CUL-DAR83.57.

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