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From S. P. Woodward   [after 4 June 1856]1

p. 399.2 Vitrina limpida, Gould— Lake Superior ill-distinguished from the British sp. See also. V. Angelicæ of Greenland.

Marine shells of New England ill-distinguishable from British p. 358.

Psammobia fusca = Tellina solidula var?

———— sordida = calcaria?

Cryptodon flexuosus Brit. = C. Gouldii, Phil. of Greenland & US.

Lima sulcata, Leach of Arctic seas & US probably same as L: subauriculata Mont.

Terebratulina caput-serpentis Brit = T. septentrionalis, Couth. Mass.

Cancellaria buccinoides, Couth. Mass. = C. viridula, Müll. Norway.

Trichotropis conica, Möll Greenland = var. of T. Borealis Brit.

CD annotations

Left margin: ‘22’3 brown crayon
Bottom of page: ‘Note given me by Woodward cases of representative shells doubtful whether vars or species— not many if any such cases in Mediterranean’ pencil
1
Dated by the relationship to the letter to S. P. Woodward, [after 4 June 1856]. This note supplements the answers given by Woodward on the manuscript of the letter to S. P. Woodward, [after 4 June 1856] (see CD’s annotations).
2
The page references are to Woodward 1851–6, where most of the species noted are referred to. The general argument in Woodward 1851–6, 3: 398–9, also alluded to on p. 358, was that the Canadian lakes contain a few freshwater molluscs identical, or nearly identical, to European species. Woodward proposed that these species ‘strengthen the evidence … of a land-way across the north Atlantic having remained till after the epoch of the existing animals and plants.’ (p. 398).
3
The number of CD’s portfolio of notes dealing mainly with palaeontology and extinction.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-1807,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-1807