RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Jurine, Candolle in Memoires Societe Geneve vol. 3. CUL-DAR73.10. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/).
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Kees Rookmaaker, edited by John van Wyhe 3.2014. RN1
NOTE: Reproduced with the permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volumes CUL-DAR 72-75 contain Darwin's abstracts of scientific books and journals.
References:
Jurine. 1825. Histoire abrégée des poissons du lac Leman, extraite des manuscrits de feu M. le professeur Jurine. Mémoires de la Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève 3 (1): 133-235.
De Candolle, A. P. 1825. Revue de la famille des Lythraires. Mémoires de la Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève 3 92): 65-96.
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Mem. de la Soc, D'Hist. Nat. de Geneve. Tom. 3 — Hist. des Poisssons du Lac Léman.
p.149 in the Gadus lota taken at 100 fathoms & under, the air-bladder is often atrophied & this malady! is often accompanied by total blindness. —
p. 154. this occurs with nearly all the fish taken at this great depths. —
Part II. Tom. 3, p. 67. Decandolle Mem. sur la famille Lithraites. — some of the genera have vary natural, of which part of species have petals & part have not; such are genera Sythronia & Ammonia — & even there are species, as Peplis pertula, of which the individuals have indifferently petals or none. Hence we have a usual generic character viz. presence of petals, variable in some genera, & in an individual species in another genus of same family.
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