RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Ch 4 / Lyell told me that Wollaston now that he has found some Heteromera. CUL-DAR45.72. 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'.
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Ch. 4
Lyell told me that Wollaston now that he has found some Heteromera, presenting same var in several islets round Madeira, means to call these 2 forms distinct species, which shows how rare it is to find same var. in different islets. ↘
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wonderful case of a shell recognized as Madeira from said to have been from Canaries, because identical var. with Madeira isld — which W. says never happens.
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