RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. 'Huxley says old Ganoids are much related to Lepidosiren which connects amphibians & Fishes'. CUL-DAR80.B16. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Text prepared and edited by John van Wyhe. 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 volumes CUL-DAR80-86 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man (1871).
Darwin cited this in Descent 1: 204.
B16
Huxley says old Ganoids are much related to Lepidosiren which connects amphibians & Fishes
B16v
Intercalary
(1) ornithorhynchus any amphibian affinities? (not strictly more than all lower animals.—
(2) Old Batrachians or amphibians in any degree intercalary with Reptilia— Huxley thinks not.
(Selachians are known to have reptilian affinities C.D)
(3) What Fishes are most Reptilian
See Academy — Ganoid —
Dipterus see X Decale on Class of Ganoid
very like Lepidosiren
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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