RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Desmoulin, Mémoire sur la distribution géographique des animaux vertébrés. CUL-DAR73.59. 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

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Desmoulins, Antoine. 1822. Mémoire sur la distribution géographique des animaux vertébrés, moins les oiseaux. Paris. [extract in Journal de Physique, not verified].

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.


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M. A. Desmoulins sur la Distrib. Geograph. des Animaux Vert. (extrait) in Journal de Physique Fev. 1822. —

p. 8. Une poecilie, le gua-puche, et une nouvelle espèce d'apodes, l'eremophilus are only inhabitants of River of Bogota, which for 1500 ft precipitates into the R. Magdelena. Could these fish have mounted such a cataract: but then not fd in the Magdalena. — Another apodal fish is confined to the R. Palace above confluence with acid river of Cauca. — N.B. The question whether created in one spot or one area very distinct. —

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