RECORD: Darwin, C. R. [1854]. Abstract of Seemann, Voyage of H.M.S Herald. CUL-DAR71.37. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2021. 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-DAR71 contains Darwin's abstracts of scientific books.
Darwin recorded reading this work in his 'Books Read' notebook. (1852-1860) CUL-DAR128.-
Seemann, Berthold Carl. 1853. Narrative of the voyage of H.M.S. Herald during the years 1845-51, under the command of Captain H. Kellett being a circumnavigation of the globe, and three cruises to the Arctic regions in search of Sir J. Franklin. 2 vols. London. [15 January 1854]
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Seemann's Voyage of HMS Herald 1853. Vol 2.
p.21 Few plants are peculiar to arctic America & only 4 exclusively found in W. Eskimo land Alludes to some notion of plants having migrated from the South.
It must be Forbes doctrine.
p. 26 The wolf often caught by the Eskimo for the purpose of crossing their dogs & thus adding to their size & strength. (Selection)
p. 39 Sir J. Richardson in regard to fossils in Eschscholtz Bay remarks that they have "an American type of ruminants was perceptible even in that early age." (Ovibos. mountain sheep) p 82 speaks of so few plants being peculiar to the Sandwich Islands!
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