RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Jurine, Candolle in Memoires de la Société de physique et d'histoire naturelle de Genève vol. 3. CUL-DAR73.10. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/).
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Kees Rookmaaker, edited by John van Wyhe 3.2014. RN1
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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.
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.
Candolle, Augustine Pyramus de. 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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