RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Byerly 'Brit Assoc' and Transactions of the Zoological Society. CUL-DAR48.A4. (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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Brit. Assoc 1854 p. 1276 Mr Byerly has demonstrated the existence of a poisonous secretion at of the species of the fish Trachinus vipera. (11)

Isaac Byerly. 1854. On the fauna of Liverpool. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 24th meeting, p. 107.

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Transact. of Z. Soc. Vol. 6. gradation in poison fin of Fishes.

A. Günther. 1868, An account of the fishes of the states of central America, based on collections made by Captain J. M. Dow, F. Godman Esq, and O. Salvin Esq. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 6 no. 7: 377-494, pls. 63-87.


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