RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Emma Darwin. n.d. [Abstract of Bulletin de la Société géologique de France, 1861-1862.] CUL-DAR75.16-17. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 5.2021. RN1

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33 p. 81 Glacial action in Corsica & fossils of Lagomys

34 p. 263 Marcel du Sevres on several animals which have become extinct within recent times.

35 p. 538 on some new forms. Mr Leon first discussed in Primordial, before only known in Silurian – Trilobite not so abundant – on distribution of Silurian fossil of same age in N. & S. Europe. (perhaps Latitude)

p. 544 on do.

p. 549 Barrande admits life before his primordial.

p. 550 as do, but concludes very scanty life.

p. 635-665 Barrande on Colonies in Silurian & other frontiers. This paper very important showing how complex appearance & disappearance of forms

Very important remains

36 p. 73 on what characters valuable for Classification; fixity or constancy at any age.

37 381 Delesse; good on manner of Succession of Tertiary shells of Basins

398 On Relation of extinct mammals of Greece to Africa; & on their characters being intermediate

411 on Longevity of molluscas compared with mammals

38 527 do subject; 537 do – 590 do

564 [M. d'Archaic] good sentence on chain of life never broken

656 on extension of knowledge of fossil crustaceans. Milne Edwards

39 323 Bone bed of doubtful position – very thin, wide extent, divided into two by common – new fossils in column with beds above – author remarks vast hidden between Triassic & Lias

p. 390 Conclusion on same subject

395. Delesse, on uppermost beds of chalk, long though poor now very rich; very good to show how imperfect the Record is

366 Many genera first have formed below chalk – all species distinct from Tertiary

40 p. 750 on Richness of Primordial in N. America

41 p 1003 – on Cephalopods of uppermost chalk; more than thought; good

p. 1023 On fossil like of Greece – intermediate between living genera.

1074-5 on representative close species in Tertiary stages – stages will have to be separated – old supposed isthmus

p. 107 a representative vars.

1084 separate gulfs again

42 35 Saporta on five distinct tertiary Floras.

52 Coquand on a new stage in chalk – in France as well as Africa quite distinct from adjoining stages.

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43 405 Gaudry on connecting links between the several species of Hyena.

405 Dupont on 6 successive stages with distinct fossils in carboniferous formation of Belgium.

409 – Remarks that each species first appears with few individuals, then increases & slowly disappears.

44 481 Barande remarks that the sea of Hof was geographically distinct from that of Bohemia. There seem to have been two distinct seas to the N. & to the S.

482 Another isthmus of separation is indicated

516 Barande on his colonies & their relation to the bottom.

518 Do On slight differences in 2 Silurian stages in Canada and on difficulty whether to consider them as distinct formations.

521 Sæmann on Barandes colonies & doubts thereon.

605 Zittel states that in N. Zealand Triassic, Jurassic, or cretaceous & tertiary formations occur.

45 194 Gaudry on mastodons intermediate in structure between Falconer's groups, & sums up that the more specimens one finds the more all such divisions disappear.

46 p. 21 On Equus & Hipparion Pikemi


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