RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Roulin, Mémoires présentés par divers savans à l'Academie Royale des Sciences. CUL-DAR48.A25. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and John van Wyhe, edited by John van Wyhe 9.2021. RN2
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-DAR48 contains notes for Natural selection chap. 8 'Transitions of Organs'. Notes on bees' cells for origin of species theory.
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Mem. Acad. R. Sciences. (Savans Etranger) Vol. VI. p. 591. Dr. Roulin sur le tapir — probable that Tapir of Paraguay more aquatic than that of Guayana — Humboldt remarks that habits of animals differ in different districts of which Roulins thinks very true — in certain places the pecc is almost as aquatic as the cabiaï, in others same species hardly ever goes near water
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Roulin, F. 1835. Mémoire pour servir à l'histoire du tapir; et description d'une espèce nouvelle appartenant aux hautes régions de la Cordillère des Andes. Mémoires présentés par divers savans à l'Academie Royale des Sciences 6: 557-640, 948-952.
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p. 324 to end New Granada
p. 591. — Tapir
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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