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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Waterhouse, A Natural History of the Mammalia: Marsupialia or pouched animals. CUL-DAR46.1.2. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2022. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR46.1 contains Notes for Natural selection chap. 5 'Struggle for existence'.

George Robert Waterhouse. 1846. A Natural History of the Mammalia: Marsupialia or pouched animals. London.

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Struggle for existence & Geograph. Distrib—

Waterhouse Marsupialia p. 3.— species which are very closely allied & have nearly similar habits are generally not associated together in same district

Ch. 5

[Origin of species, p. 116: "It may be doubted, for instance, whether the Australian marsupials, which are divided into groups differing but little from each other, and feebly representing, as Mr. Waterhouse and others have remarked, our carnivorous, ruminant, and rodent mammals, could successfully compete with these well-pronounced orders."]

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