Origin of Species Variorum

→ far more easily than land-shells, across three or four hundred miles of open sea. 1859 1861 1866

far more easily than land- shells, across three or four hundred miles of open sea. 1860

across three or four hundred miles of open sea far more easily than land-shells. 1869 1872

→ analogous facts. 1859 1860 1861 1866

nearly similar cases. 1869

nearly parallel cases. 1872

→ animals of certain whole 1866 1869 1872

certain 1859 1860 1861

→ animals belonging to other classes; thus 1866

the other inhabitants; 1859 1860 1861

other classes: thus 1869

other classes; thus 1872

→ the 1859 1860 1861 1866

or recently took, the 1869 1872

→ In the plants of the Galapagos Islands, 1859 1860 1861 1866

Turning to plants, 1869 1872

→ the 1859 1860 1861 1866

in the Galapagos Islands the 1869 1872

→ All such cases 1866

Such cases 1859 1860 1861

All such differences in number, and the absence of certain whole groups of animals and plants on islands, 1869

All such differences in number, and the absence of certain whole groups of animals and plants, 1872

→ the 1859 1860 1861 1866

supposed differences in their 1869

supposed differences in the 1872

→ of the islands; 1859 1860 1861 1866 1872

OMIT 1869

→ is 1866 1869 1872

seems to me 1859 1860 1861

→ seems to have been at least 1861 1866

I believe, has been at least 1859 1860

seems to have been fully 1869 1872

→ mammals, 1859 1860 1861 1866

a single mammal, 1869 1872

→ the adaptation of hooked seeds for transportal by 1859 1860 1861 1866

that hooked seeds are adapted for transportal in 1869

that hooks serve for the transportal of seeds in 1872

→ This case presents no difficulty on my view, for 1859 1860 1861 1866

But 1869 1872

shores;

shores:

now, though we do not know how sea-shells are dispersed, yet we can see that their eggs or larvæ, perhaps attached to

sea-weed

seaweed

or floating timber, or to the feet of wading-birds, might be transported →far more easily than land-shells, across three or four hundred miles of open sea. The different orders of insects

inhabiting

Madeira

~~apparently~~

apparently

present →analogous facts.

Oceanic islands are sometimes deficient in →animals of certain whole classes, and their places are

apparently

....

occupied by →animals belonging to other classes; thus in the Galapagos Islands reptiles, and in New Zealand gigantic wingless birds,

take,

take

→the place of mammals. Although New Zealand is here spoken of as an oceanic island, it is in some degree doubtful whether it should be so ranked; it is of large size, and is not separated from Australia by a profoundly deep

sea;

sea:

from its geological character and the direction of its mountain-ranges, the Rev. W. B. Clarke has lately maintained that this island, as well as New Caledonia, should be considered as appurtenances of Australia. →In the plants of the Galapagos Islands, Dr. Hooker has shown that →the proportional numbers of the different orders are very different from what they are elsewhere. →All such cases are generally accounted for by →the physical

conditions;

conditions

→of the islands; but this explanation →is not a little doubtful. Facility of

immigration,

immigration

→seems to have been at least as important as the nature of the conditions.

Many remarkable little facts could be given with respect to the inhabitants of

oceanic

remote

islands. For instance, in certain islands not tenanted by →mammals, some of the endemic plants have beautifully hooked seeds;

and

yet