RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Length of lamellæ. CUL-DAR69.A32. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 4.2023. RN1

NOTE: Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin.


[A32]

Cavity of P

(a) Enlarge of [Bill] in Shoveller & [illeg] — length of lamellæ — seem to stand in relation so not whole that much larger [illeg]  & anyway [illeg] has largest lamellæ, owing to hen freely of ramble animal

Goose — not a sifter yet maybe a small change been converted into a sifter

I may add, as ultimately the power of slight change that the Ag by lamellæ of a goose cd be [2 words illeg] into the shape, form, backward directed teeth of the fish-catching merganser, to [3 words illeg]

[A32v]

54 [+] 56 [+] 17 [+] 40 [+] 21 [=] 188 lamellæ in Shoveller

In some Duck about 50

Goose 27 Kept on road

Shoveller depend extremity 1.4

(Merganser)

(over)


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