RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1855]. Abstract of Carpenter, On the fossil shells of foraminifera, called by him 'Orbitolites'. CUL-DAR45.68. 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'.

See: Darwin, C. R. 8.1855. Referee report on W. B. Carpenter's manuscript "On the fossil shells of foraminifera, called by him 'Orbitolites'". RoySoc-RR3.38.


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Dr. Carpenter in his Paper on orbitolites shows that certain vars, with calcareous external rays abound in the Philippine Seas, — that certain monstrous vars in the Aegean sea, & certain forms in the Eocene strata of Paris; but that all belong to same one species.— 5 Chapt 4.


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