Origin of Species Variorum

→ less than 1866 1869

under 1859 1860 1861

less than a 1872

→ have 1859 1860 1861 1866 1869

species have now 1872

→ from various sources 1859 1860 1861 1866

OMIT 1869 1872

→ number of the inhabitants is scanty 1866

number of kinds of inhabitants is scanty, 1859 1860 1861

species are few in number, 1869 1872

→ in kind, the 1866

the 1859 1860 1861 1869 1872

→ ( i.e. 1861 1866 1872

( i . e . 1859

( I. e. 1860 1869

→ expected on my theory, 1859 1860 1861 1866

theoretically expected, 1869 1872

→ of time in 1866 1869 1872

in 1859 1860 1861

→ with facility and 1859 1860 1861 1866

OMIT 1869 1872

→ disturbed; and partly on the frequent arrival of un- modified immigrants from the mother-country, and the consequent intercrossing with them. 1866

disturbed. 1859

disturbed; and partly on the frequent arrival of unmodified immigrants from the mother-country, and the consequent intercrossing with them. 1860 1861

disturbed; and partly on the frequent arrival of unmodified immigrants from the mother-country, with which the insular forms have intercrossed. 1869 1872

have evidence that the barren island of Ascension aboriginally possessed →less than half-a-dozen flowering plants; yet many →have

become

now become

naturalised on it, as they have

New Zealand and on every other oceanic island which can be named. In St. Helena there is reason to believe that the naturalised plants and animals have nearly or quite exterminated many native productions. He who admits the doctrine of the creation of each separate species, will have to

admit,

admit

that a sufficient number of the best adapted plants and animals

have

were

not

been

....

created

for

oceanic islands; for man has unintentionally stocked them →from various sources far more fully and perfectly than

has

did

nature.

Although in oceanic islands the →number of the inhabitants is scanty →in kind, the proportion of endemic

kinds

species

→ ( i.e. those found nowhere else in the world) is often extremely large. If we compare, for instance, the number of

~~the~~

the

endemic land-shells in Madeira, or of

~~the~~

the

endemic birds in the Galapagos Archipelago, with the number found on any continent, and then compare the area of the

island

islands

with that of the continent, we shall see that this is true. This fact might have been →expected on my theory, for, as already explained, species occasionally arriving after long intervals →of time in a new and isolated district, and having to compete with new associates,

would

will

be eminently liable to modification, and

would

will

often produce groups of modified descendants. But it by no means

follows,

follows

that, because in an island nearly all the species of one class are peculiar, those of another class, or of another section of the same class, are peculiar; and this difference seems to depend

partly on

the species which

are

not

~~become~~

become

modified having immigrated →with facility and in a body, so that their mutual relations have not been much →disturbed; and partly on the frequent arrival of un- modified immigrants from the mother-country, and the consequent intercrossing with them.