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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Carpenter, Researches on Foraminifera. CUL-DAR45.97. 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'.

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Dr Carpenter in Phil. Transact has shown what truly extraordinary amount of variation the Foraminifera are subject to.— Many species & even several genera, being specifically the same, as has been shown by gradations & diverse forms occurring in different parts of same individual. —

It is remarkable that the same vary very often occur exclusively or very frequently in certain localities

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Carpenter, William Benjamin. 1860. Researches on Foraminifera: fourth and concluding series. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 150 no. 2: 535-594.

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