RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1858.05. Dr J. E Grey showed me a drawer with Achatinella. CUL-DAR47.9. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 7.2022. 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-DAR47 contains notes for Natural selection chap. 7 'Laws of Variation'.
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May /58 / Dr. J. E. Grey showed me a drawer with Achatinella, a genus from Sandwich Isld. of land-shell, normally with mouth of shell sinistral, but several species have dextral mouths, & these almost invariably are decidedly more elongated & slenderer as he showed me. Curious correlation.
Ch. 7
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