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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [B129] p 331 332} 2 males to 1 female 307 Carp 336 Bream} but no proof that more than the requisite 373 Minnow see Loudon p. 682 --- (Also for sexual selection important) {373 Spawn of the Minow vol 5. p. 681 Mag of Nat. Loudons Mag Males of minnow 10 times as numerous during spawning Yarrell. B. Fishes Vol I. on 2 males requisite for one female. Polyandry [B129v
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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [158] p. 208. Yarrell. (vol. 3 p. 259) has described seasonal changes in the male Pintail Ducks - males commence in July to resemble female - by August 4th hardly distinguishable from females - By 3d week in October the male has almost perfectly recovered masculine plumage. p. 216 Wood-duck (Aix sponsa) male has long pendent tufts of beautiful feathers, which he can erect - in the female only a rudimentary crest. Male a beautiful bird. Mr Ross, King
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It seems from Lib. of Useful Knowledge that sheep originally black Yarrell thinks the occasional production of black lambs is owing to old return. The Rev. R. Jones told me precisely the same story about southern, see p. 43 supra, breed of cattle with white heads, which years afterwards occasionally went back - (Effect of imagination on mother white peeled rods mentioned in old Testament placed before sheep it has been thought that silver pheasants about a house made other pheasants have white
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Die Saugethiere, Vogel Amphibien nach ihren Geograph. Verbreitung. Tabellarisch zusammengestellt. Dr. H. Pompper. Leipzig 1841. (new by Berghaus for Birds) Die Wirbelthiere Europas. von Keyserling Prof. Blasius. Brunswick 1840 I fancy only a Catalogue Schinz seems to have written on inhabitants animals of high valley of Ursern in Alps (Johnston Atlas) Nott Gliddon Types of Mankind (read) Carpenter has written in Encyclop of Anatomy Physiology, article on Variation races of mankind. Yarrell has
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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online 103 Cervus campestris spotted white when a fawn compare with fallow? deer Moschus c. c. - like young blackbirds Dr Bachman told me that 1/2 Muscovy common duck were often caught wild off coast of America - showing that hybrids can fare for themselves first year the bird fanciers match their birds to see which will sing longest they in evident rivalry sing against each other, till it has been known one has killed itself. Sir J. Sebright has almost lost
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CUL-DAR74.55-64,66-103
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(54) Vol VI. Hort. Trans anticipated - the fruit of two contained a good deal of sugar - one, sent to the Hort Gardens, presents a greater extent of deviation from the character of its female parent, than any others of a numerous family my garden contains (case of variation in progeny ) - thinks the imperatrice plum not a very old variety - These facts hostile, to Yarrell views p 540 Mr Williams details a method of grafting by which the Golden Pippin was preserved but the very care requisite
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Besides claspers the male Rays even the [illegible] species have cluster of
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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [B40] Besides claspers the male Rays eyes to others recent species have cluster of spines outside the eyes a regular row towards the upper, outer surface of the pectoral fins. The males of some species which in others under the [illeg]. Dr. G. suspects that these species which are only temporarily developed during the breeding season – are inward brought into action the doubly [illeg] of the side of the as prehensile body organs. - The ♀ larger than
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Naturgeschichte aller Vögel Deutschlands. Ilmenau. 40. Colquhoun, John. 1840. The moor and the loch: containing practical hints on most of the Highland sports; and notices of the habits of the different creatures of game and prey in the mountainous districts of Scotland. Edinburgh and London. 41. Yarrell, William. 1837-45. A history of British Birds. London. 42. Murchison, Roderick Impey, Verneuil, Edouard de, and Keyserling, Alexander von. 1845. The geology of Russia in Europe and the Ural mountains
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Sexual Selection (Abstracts not Periodicals) M Scrope Art of deer. H. [Hunting] (17) Stags found locked together dead. Also about the younger stags coming in leaving some offspring. Lloyd. Scand. Adventure (18) Hooks to male salmon jaws B do do p 452 Remarkable attachment of ♂ Shieldrake Duck ♀ M Bells Quadrupeds (25) p. 99. Moles ( guanacos) fight much for females even kill each other M do do p. 395 Female Rein-deer has horns B Yarrell. British Birds (41) Much on sexual difference of Birds M
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CUL-DAR29.3.78
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Darwin, C. R. [Notes on preserving Beagle specimens]. CUL-DAR29.3.78 Transcribed by Kees Rookmaaker and edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/) [1] Before packing up skins rub the box inside with turpentine. putting tobacco camphor c with it. — Leadbeater1 at Zool: put turpentine in tow2 lap it in paper Lap seeds in the capsule in brown paper. dry but not hot. Henslow3 Jars. first half putrid bladder. then 2 coverings of Lead or Tin foil. not large enough to be
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Periodical contribution:
Barlow, Nora ed. 1963. Darwin's ornithological notes. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 2 (7): 201-278. With introduction, notes and appendix by the editor.
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carrion feeding hawks possess both the sense [altered from power] of sight and smell in a high degree. End of MS. 48 (b). In Beagle '45, p. 185, the discussion is given in the main text, as Darwin had received further evidence against the acute sense of smell of the turkey-buzzard and gallinazo. The date of Owen's communication to the Zool. Soc. was 14th March, 1837, and Darwin was present. Owen's information about the olfactory nerves of the vulture was given in a letter to Mr. Yarrell, the
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Hybrid offspring, much larger than the dam, from those imported by Ld Powis.1 Hybrid dogs offspring seldom intermediate between parents. — How easily does Wolf Dog cross? Mr Yarrel2 thinks oldest variety impresses the offspring most forcibly, Esquimaux dog Pointer. Game fowls have courage independently of individual force. 1 Undoubtedly Lord Powis. See Darwin, Charles. 1868. Variation of animals and plants under domestication 1: 83; vol. 2, p. 45. London, Murray. [Ba] 2 William Yarrell
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How long back have insects been known? As Gould1 remarked to me, the beauty of species is their exactness,' but do not known varieties do the same, May you not breed ten thousand greyhounds will they not be greyhounds? — Yarrell's remark2 about old varieties affecting the cross most well worthy of observation. — 1 John Gould. Probably personal communication. [deB] 2 William Yarrell. Probably personal communication. [deB] 17
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Mr Yarrell1 says that old races when mingled with newer, hybrid variety partakes chiefly of the former. Eyton's2 paper on Hybrids Loudon's Magazine. Gould3 on Motacilla, Loudon Mag. September or Octob 1837 Species peculiar to Continent England. 1 William Yarrell. Probably personal communication. [deB] 2 Thomas Campbell Eyton. Some remarks upon the theory of hybridity , Mag. Nat. Hist. N.S., vol. 1, 1837, p. 357. [deB] 3 John Gould. Observations on some species of the genus Motacilla of
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de Beer, Gavin ed. 1960. Darwin's notebooks on transmutation of species. Part III. Third notebook [D] (July 15 to October 2nd 1838). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 2 (4) (July):119-150.
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Mr Yarrell1 says the male Axis of India, breeds at times when horns not perfect (is not this so in S. America with C. campestris, refer to my notes) Mr Yarrell supposes this a consequence of that female breeding all the year round. Ask Colonel Sykes2. 100 Even our domesticated cattle have tendency to breed at particular times. Mr Yarrell has old book 1765 ? Treatise on Domestic Pidgeon,3 in which it appears that all the varieties now known were then existing. he has also some very fine recent
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de Beer, Gavin ed. 1960. Darwin's notebooks on transmutation of species. Part II. Second notebook [C] (February to July 1838). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 2 (3) (May): 75-118.
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CHARLES DARWINS SECOND NOTEBOOK ON TRANSMUTATION OF SPECIES FEBRUARY-JULY 1838 Inside front cover CHARLES DARWIN written between (begining of February July 1838) two pidgeons which cross keep colour on wing. Effects of colour on parent, white room. How are varieties ? Books about amount of difference when hybrids produced have any close species ever yet failed. About trades affecting form of man. Could you get racehorse from cart horse All good References selected Dec 13 1856. Also worked
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de Beer, Gavin ed. 1960. Darwin's notebooks on transmutation of species. Part II. Second notebook [C] (February to July 1838). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 2 (3) (May): 75-118.
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white varieties by picking the yellow ones crossing with dark bantam produced old variety. The pidgeons which have such different skulls, but same marks on wings are Blue Pouter small Bald Heads Mr.Yarrell will mention in his work.6 I am sorry to find Mr.Yarrell's evidence about old varieties is reduced to scarcely anything, almost all imagination He says he recollects all half Bred cattle of Ld Darnleys were most like parent Brahmin bulls Mr.Y. is inclined to think that the male communicates
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de Beer, Gavin ed. 1960. Darwin's notebooks on transmutation of species. Part III. Third notebook [D] (July 15 to October 2nd 1838). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 2 (4) (July):119-150.
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effect of heredity in in. Mr Yarrell does not know 154 of any case of old male becoming like female, though many of old female becoming like cocks. It is very singular so many Gallinaceous birds have cock hen plumage so different, yet the Cassowary Guinea fowl cannot be distinguished. A capon will sit upon eggs as well as often better than a female. this is full of interest, for it shows latent instincts even in brain of male. Every animal surely is hermaphrodite (as is seen in plumage of hybrid
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de Beer, Gavin, Rowlands, M. J. eds. 1961. Darwin's notebooks on transmutation of species. Addenda and corrigenda. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 2 (6) (October) 185-200.
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1845, vol. 3, p. 130. The Grey Phalarope . On p. 133; The females of this species appear to assume more perfect colours, in the breeding season, and to retain them longer than the males 2 Charles Darwin. Journal of Researches, etc. London 1839, p. 66; Polyborus Novae Zelandiae. 3 Edward Blyth. Presumably unrecorded remark at a meeting of the Zoological Society. 4 The lower half of this page lightly scored through. 5 Rev. John Bachman. Personal communication. 6 Edward Stanley. A Familiar History
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Barrett, P. H. ed. 1960. A transcription of Darwin's first notebook [B] on 'Transmutation of species'. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 122: [245]-296, for 1959-1960 (April).
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Darwin, op. cit., note 56 (p. 163 in Darwin). 83. Yarrell, William, author of numerous papers including: On the laws which regulate the change of plumage in birds. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London, 1:13-20, 1835. 84. Eyton, Thomas C. 1837. Some remarks upon the theory of hybridity. Magazine of Natural History, and Journal of Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Geology, and Meteorology, London, 1:357-359. Conducted by J. C. Loudon. [page] 291 BARRETT: DARWIN'S FIRST EVOLUTIONARY NOTEBOO
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de Beer, Gavin, Rowlands, M. J. and Skramovsky, [Mrs] B. M. eds. 1967. Darwin's notebooks on transmutation of species. Part VI. Pages excised by Darwin. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 3 (5) (21 March): 129-176.
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species. Yarrell says the bird fanciers say the throw of any two species crossed is uncertain. Yarrell remarks he has somewhere met conjecture that all salt-water [recte fresh water] fish were once salt water (as they almost must have been on elevation of continents) but Ogilby well answers that nearly all F.W. Fish are Abdominals that order first converted. is it an old order geologically? 4 Richard Owen. 5 William Ogilby. 6 Rev. John Bachman. [page] 15
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de Beer, Gavin, Rowlands, M. J. and Skramovsky, [Mrs] B. M. eds. 1967. Darwin's notebooks on transmutation of species. Part VI. Pages excised by Darwin. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 3 (5) (21 March): 129-176.
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band, like in plumage of ducks. 102 Mr. Yarrell says in very close species of birds, habits when well watched always very different. the two redpoles can hardly be told apart, so that after differences were pointed out Selby confounded them, yet can readily be told by incubation other peculiarities. (Mem. Goulds Willow Wren.) (Goulds story of Water-Wagtails mistaken both species scattered over Europe) The habits of some same North American European birds slightly different Barn Owl in the former
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de Beer, Gavin, Rowlands, M. J. and Skramovsky, [Mrs] B. M. eds. 1967. Darwin's notebooks on transmutation of species. Part VI. Pages excised by Darwin. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 3 (5) (21 March): 129-176.
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Thomas Campbell Eyton. 58 William Yarrell. 59 George Robert Waterhouse, Observations on the Rodentia , Magazine of Natural History, vol. 3, 1839, p. 106. 60 Thomas Campbell Eyton, Some remarks upon the Theory of Hybridity , Magazine of Natural History, vol. 1, 1837, p. 357. 61 See Darwin's Fourth Notebook on Transmutation of Species , Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist)., Historical Series, vol. 2, 1960, p. 173, footnote 1. 62 Alexander Walker, Intermarriage, London, 1838. 63 Coenraad Jacob Temminck
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de Beer, Gavin ed. 1960. Darwin's notebooks on transmutation of species. Part I. First notebook [B] (July 1837-February 1838). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 2 (2) (January): 23-73.
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. Nat. Hist., N.S., London 1837, vol. I. p. 357. 4 William Yarrell. Probably personal communication. 5 Wynne. Untraced. 6 William Darwin Fox. Probably personal communication. 7 William Kirby. On the power, wisdom, and goodness of God, as manifested in the creation of animals and in their history, habits, and instincts, (The Bridgwater Treatises) London 1835, vol. I, p. 141: There is another function which is devolved upon animals with respect to the vegetable kingdom: to keep the members of it
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de Beer, Gavin ed. 1960. Darwin's notebooks on transmutation of species. Part I. First notebook [B] (July 1837-February 1838). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 2 (2) (January): 23-73.
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he expressed much surprise at the fact. 6 John Phillips. Treatise on Geology. Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia, London 1837. 7 John Phillips. A Treatise on Geology. Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia, London 1837, p. 83: Most of the fossil cephalopoda belong to extinct genera. 8 Charles Lyell. No reference to this subject in Lyell's published works has been traced. 9 John Phillips. A Treatise on Geology. Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia, London 1837, p. 90. Fishes with placoid and ganoid scales are shown
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de Beer, Gavin ed. 1960. Darwin's notebooks on transmutation of species. Part II. Second notebook [C] (February to July 1838). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 2 (3) (May): 75-118.
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68 little bird. In same way Wilson1 (p. 5) describes many kinds of birds uniting together in pursuit of Blue Jay, when birds hears cry of distress of other parents. Shows community of language. Desert country is as effectual as a cold one in checking beautiful colours of species. Mem. St. Jago; solitary Halcyon bird of passage. M.coronata of Latham, wrong. Mr.Yarrell says that some birds or animals are placed in white rooms to give tinge to 69 offspring. Darkness effect on human offspring
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de Beer, Gavin ed. 1960. Darwin's notebooks on transmutation of species. Part III. Third notebook [D] (July 15 to October 2nd 1838). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 2 (4) (July):119-150.
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case opposed to this fact views. 1 The remaining words on this cover inserted at a later date. 2 Thomas Campbell Eyton. 3 Sir Robert Heron, cf. Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, London 1868, vol. 2, p. 92. Footnote: Extract of a letter from Sir R. Heron, 1838 given me by Mr. Yarrell . 4 This and the following two sentences, inserted in pencil at a later date. 5 Robert Waring Darwin. 6 Mark, Dr Darwin's coachman at Shrewsbury, cf. Emma Darwin, Cambridge 1904, vol. 2, p. 13. 7
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de Beer, Gavin ed. 1960. Darwin's notebooks on transmutation of species. Part III. Third notebook [D] (July 15 to October 2nd 1838). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 2 (4) (July):119-150.
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les causes de l'existence du bassin des mers, de son d placement, de son transport successif sur les diff renis points de ce globe, enfin sur les changements que les corps organis s vivants exercent sur la nature et l' tat de cetie surface, Paris 1802. (cf. Darwin's Second Notebook MS. p. 119.) 5 William Darwin Fox. Probably personal communication. 6 Erasmus Darwin. Zoonomia, vol. 1, London 1794, Section XXXIX. 7 Thomas Livingstone Mitchell. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia
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de Beer, Gavin ed. 1960. Darwin's notebooks on transmutation of species. Part III. Third notebook [D] (July 15 to October 2nd 1838). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 2 (4) (July):119-150.
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by hairy ones, which never dry up peal off their skin (not being wanted for war) hence never fall off. Curious the rapidity of the change in 5 or 6 weeks after castration, fresh horns begin to grow. 1 Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, op. cit., vol. 1, p. 306. 2 William Yarrell. cf. Darwin's Second Notebook on Transmutation of Species, MS. pp. 1 121 (The supposition that the oldest variety has the greatest effect on offspring when crossed). 3 William Herbert. Amaryllidaceae, London 1837. On p. 343: In
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de Beer, Gavin ed. 1960. Darwin's notebooks on transmutation of species. Part I. First notebook [B] (July 1837-February 1838). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 2 (2) (January): 23-73.
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, aient fourni des voyageurs vers un point voisin de leur antipode et soient venus ainsi d poser en France les d bris, juste sujet de notre admiration, que nous avons cit s dans cet crit; non, il n'en est point ainsi. Je m'en tieus pour d n gation, quant ce sujet, aux principes et aux donn es philosophiques de mes m moires sur les milieux ambians 4 N. Baer. Aurochs du Caucase L'Institut, Paris, 5, 1837, 218, p. 260. 5 William Darwin Fox. Probably personal communication. 6 William Yarrell. Probably
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de Beer, Gavin ed. 1960. de Beer, G. ed. 1960. Darwin's notebooks on transmutation of species. Part IV, Fourth notebook [E] (October 1838-10 July 1839). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 2 (5) (September): 151-183.
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[?recte some]. 118 Varieties are made in two ways local varieties when whole mass of species are subjected to same influence, this would take place from changing country: but greyhound race-horse poulter Pidgeon have not been thus produced, but by 1 William Yarrell who believed that in a cross the oldest variety had the greatest influence on the characters of the mongrel offspring, cf. Darwin's Second Notebook on Transmutation of Species, MS. pp. 1 and 121. 2 Alexander Walker. Intermarriage
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de Beer, Gavin, Rowlands, M. J. eds. 1961. Darwin's notebooks on transmutation of species. Addenda and corrigenda. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 2 (6) (October) 185-200.
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of Darwin Papers at the University Library Cambridge, 1960). The parallel between the behaviour of the Chillingham cattle and William Cowper's hares is drawn in Darwin's Fourth Notebook MS. p. 117. 2 J. Hindmarsh. Ann. Nat. Hist., vol. 2, London 1838-1839, p. 156. 3 Webb Hall. 4 This sentence slightly scored out. 5 Hector Boece (Boethius). G. Kenneth Whitehead, The Ancient White Cattle of Britain and their Descendants, London [1953], On p. 24; These animals, states Hector Boece (Variously spelt
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de Beer, Gavin, Rowlands, M. J. and Skramovsky, [Mrs] B. M. eds. 1967. Darwin's notebooks on transmutation of species. Part VI. Pages excised by Darwin. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 3 (5) (21 March): 129-176.
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morceaux, au moment m me o ils venaient de la recevoir . 44 John Gould ; he described Furnarius and Synallaxis in the Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle, vol. 2, 1841. 45 William Yarrell, probably personal communication. 46 Richard Owen, A description of a specimen of the Plesiosaurus macrocephalus, Conybeare, in the collection of Viscount Cole , [read 4 April 1838], Trans. Roy. Geograph. Soc., vol. 5, 1840, p. 534. 47 William Whewell, The Bridgewater Treatises on the Power Wisdom and Goodness
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de Beer, Gavin, Rowlands, M. J. and Skramovsky, [Mrs] B. M. eds. 1967. Darwin's notebooks on transmutation of species. Part VI. Pages excised by Darwin. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 3 (5) (21 March): 129-176.
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Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, Three expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, London, 1838. 75 Richard Owen, Remarks on the Entozoa , Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. 1, 1835, p. 387. 76 Philip Parker King, Survey of the Intertropical and West Coasts of Australia, London, 1818-22. 77 William Yarrell. Reference untraced. 78 John Hunter, Observations on certain parts of the Animal Oeconomy, with notes by Richard Owen, London, 1837, pp. 422-66 : Observations on Bees . 79 Marie-Jules-C sar de Savigny
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de Beer, Gavin, Rowlands, M. J. and Skramovsky, [Mrs] B. M. eds. 1967. Darwin's notebooks on transmutation of species. Part VI. Pages excised by Darwin. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 3 (5) (21 March): 129-176.
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entirely, changed his residence a great many miles yet one day a cow walked in, then disappeared, three days afterwards came again, bringing with her the other younger cow. 29 Mr. Blyth3 remarked that greater difference in the 4 Struthionidae, than in many large orders of birds. The Emu Cassowary closest. Ostrich Rhea closest. 1 William Darwin Fox, personal communication. 2 William Yarrell ; this and the following pages read like notes taken at a discussion meeting of the Zoological Society. 3 Edward
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de Beer, Gavin, Rowlands, M. J. and Skramovsky, [Mrs] B. M. eds. 1967. Darwin's notebooks on transmutation of species. Part VI. Pages excised by Darwin. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Historical Series 3 (5) (21 March): 129-176.
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studying. Archiv fur Natur-geschichte.30 152 September 11 Generation Mr. Yarrell says it is well known that in breeding very pure South Down that the ewe must never be put to any other breed else all the lambs will deteriorate. Lord Moreton's31 case When cows have twins, though capable of producing both pair of male female. if there be one female, she will be free Martin.32 See Hunter's Owen 27 Alcide Dessalines D'Orbigny, L'Homme am ricain (de l'Am rique m ridionale),eonsid r sous ses rapports
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Anthus comes very near A. pralinsis, which like its southern representative is said by Mr Yarrell (p 392) to have a very high northern range. Iceland 65° though centre of island Georgia 54° 30' Iceland must be about 20 times as big as Georgi
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June 26th — Yarrell: Black Swan in domestication nature strictly monogamous — geese polygamous (?when wild) but even some birds are so when wild — wild ducks monogamous; tame ones highly polygamous — change of instinct by domestication. — Notices of the Indian Archipelago Published at Singapore in 1837. by Mr J. H. Moore. — p. 1 Elephant Rhinoceros Leopard (but not Royal Tiger) c. are found but only in one part the northern peninsula of Borneo. — Ox hog natives of Borneo. 175
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, vol. 18. 1841, p. 327; read 2 April 1839. 2 Thomas Campbell Eyton. 3 William Yarrell. 169
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Hunt (the intelligent Keeper) remarked that he had never seen any of the American Monkey show any desire for women — very curious, as they depart in structure The monkeys understand the affinities of man, better than the boasted philosopher himself it is chiefly shown in old male.— A very green monkey (from Senegal he thinks Callitrix Seba ??) he has seen place its head downwards to look up womens petticoats — just like Jenny with Tommy ourang.— Very curious.— Mr Yarrell has seen Jenny, when
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. 2 William Yarrell who believed that in a cross the oldest variety had the greatest influence on the characters of the mongrel offspring, cf. Darwin's Second Notebook on Transmutation of Species, MS. pp. 1 and 121. 11
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with notes by Richard Owen. vol. 4 of The works of John Hunter, F.R.S. with notes. ed. by James F. Palmer. 4 vols. London. 1835-7. Malthus, Thomas Robert. 1826. An essay on the principle of population. 6th ed. 2 vols. London. [Darwin Library in CUL] Owen, Richard. 1839. Entozoa. In vol. 2, pp. 111-144, of Todd, Robert Bentley, The cyclopedia of anatomy and physiology. 5 vols. London. 1836-59. Parent-Duchâlet, Alexandre Jean Baptiste. 1836. De la prostitution dans la ville de Paris considéré
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the Highland Society of Scotland] Agricola, Georg Andreas. 1721. A philosophical treatise of husbandry and gardening; being a new method of cultivating and increasing all sorts of trees, shrubs, and flowers. Revised by Richard Bradley. London. American Journal of Science and Arts. ed. by B. Silliman. New Haven, Conn. 1818-45. Second series, 1846-. [vols. 38 45 in Darwin Library in CUL. Abstract in CUL-DAR74.116-36 and 205.9.2.87-100.] [Chambers, Robert]. 1844. Vestiges of the natural history of
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Maximilien Newuied is publishing Travels into interior of N. America — in Geograph Journ Soc [Wied-Neuwied 1839-41] Siebold's Japan — do [von Siebold 1833-50] Kalm's Travels in N. America — much Nat. Hist [Kalm 1770-1] Sir. W. Jardines. Naturalist Library. Vol 26 — Account of Domestic Foreign Bees: [Jardine ed. 1840] (Athenaeum 1840 p. 195) Boitons Harmonia Ruralis — Yarrell probably has it. account of habits of birds. [Bolton 1794-6] Temminck Manuel D'ornithologie. 2d Edit: Introduction on
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] Todd, Robert Bentley, ed. 1836-59. The cyclopedia of anatomy and physiology. 5 vols. in 6. London. [Darwin Library in CUL] Wied-Neuwied, Maximilian Alexander Philipp zu. 1820-1. Reise nach Brasilien in den Jahren 1815-17. 2 vols., and atlas. Frankfort. [? ed.] Yarrell, William. 1843. A history of British birds. 3 vols. London. [Darwin Library in CUL. Abstract in CUL-DAR71.166-79.] *14
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riproduzione végétale. Pisa. [Abstract in CUL-DAR71.95-111.] Holland, Henry. 1839. Medical notes and reflections. London. [Darwin Library; 3d ed. (1855) also in Darwin Library in CUL] Hunt, John. 1806. Anatomical reflections on the formation of animals, and the new opinions of Henry Cline. London. Le Couteur, John. 1836. On the varieties, properties and classification of wheat. Jersey and London. [Darwin Library; 2d ed. (1872) also in Darwin Library in CUL] Memoirs of the Caledonian Horticultural Society
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man better than the boasted philosopher himself)) it is chiefly shown in old male. A very green monkey (from Senegal he thinks Callitrix Sebe??) he has seen place its head downwards to look up women's petticoats, just like Jenny with Tommy ourang. Very curious. Mr. Yarrell has seen Jenny, when Keeper was away, take her chair bang against the door to force it open, when she could not succeed of herself. I saw the male Jenny untying a very difficult knot the sailor on board the ship could not
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at last got dusky, then took white Chinese Bantam crossed got some yellow others yellower white varieties by picking the yellow ones crossing with dark bantam produced old variety. — The pidgeons which have such different skulls, but same marks on wings are Blue Pouter small Bald Heads Mr Yarrell will mention in his work.1 I am sorry to find Mr Yarrell's evidence about old varieties is reduced to scarcely anything, — almost all imagination — He says he recollects all half Bred cattle of Ld
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chestnut for many generations back, was crossed with Bay mare, only by a few generations, that offspring would be chestnut. — On this principle I may add, that fact of half cross with parents, going back to either parent is lucidly explained. — Mr Yarrell states that if any odd pidgeon crossed with common pidgeon, offspring most like latter, because oldest variety. — He says of two varieties of
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great monstrosities being produced, handed down with ease, is analogous to what occurs in plants. — All these facts clearly point out two kinds of varieties. — One approaching to nature of monster, hereditary, other adaptation. — ⸮ Mr Yarrell says, that after breeding in pidgeons with very much care that, it requires the greatest difficulty to rear them, eggs hatched under other birds brought up by hand. — These facts all account for 5-12 excised 13
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