RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1858.09.11]. Abstract of The Times, 1858 (The Argus, Melbourne) 'N. Zealand, "the imported English grasses are superseding the all pervading Fern"'. CUL-DAR46.1.43. 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'.
Anon. New Zealand and its resources. The Times (11 September 1858, p. 7 quoting The Argus [(Melbourne), 12 July 1858, p. 4.] The original quotation reads: "the English grasses are gradually superseding the all-pervading fern in the Northern Island".
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The Melbourne Argus (quoted in Times 11th 58) says in the N. Island of N. Zealand, "the imported English grasses are superseding the all pervading Fern".— This must have happened often, but this only recorded case
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