RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Falconer and Cautley. CUL-DAR83.104. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 2.2022. 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 2: 304, n41: "Falconer and Cautley, 'Proc. Geolog. Soc.' 1843; and Falconer's 'Pal. Memoirs,' vol. i. p. 196."
H. Falconer and P. T. Cautley. 1843. On some fossil remains of anoploterium and giraffe, from the Sewalik Hills, in the north of India. Proceedings of the Zoological Society 4, no. 98 (15 Nov.): 235-249.
H. Falconer. 1868. Palaeontological Memoirs and Notes of the late Hugh Falconer: With a biographical sketch of the author. London.
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Falconer & Cautley in Proc. Geolog Soc. 1843. & Falconers Pal. Memoir Vol. I. p. 196 first showed that Moschus aquaticus resemble the Anoplotherium pachyderms & departs from the type of the true Ruminants in a number of osteological characters, especially in the metacarpals being distinct along their whole length.
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