RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstracts. CUL-DAR5.B72. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 12.2021. 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-DAR5 contains Edinburgh lecture notes, 1825-7; class cards; zoological walk to Portobello; geological notes, Shrewsbury & with Sedgwick; alluvium; Salisbury Craigs; for glacier papers, 1839-42.
[B72]
p 273 Authus Lear half page blank
Mackenzie (p. 346) mentions 13 land birds
Athenæum 1838 [25 August, no. 565] p 613 says Mr Proctor the subcurator of Dublin Museum collected 150 birds in Ireland. I suppose many aquatic
[B72v]
Anthus comes very near A. pralinsis, which like its southern representative is said by Mr Yarrell (p 392) to have a very high northern range.
Iceland 65° though centre of island Georgia 54° 30'
Iceland must be about 20 times as big as Georgia
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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