Origin of Species Variorum

→ or recently took, the 1869 1872

the 1859 1860 1861 1866

→ Turning to plants, 1869 1872

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

→ in the Galapagos Islands the 1869 1872

the 1859 1860 1861 1866

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

Such cases 1859 1860 1861

All such cases 1866

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

→ supposed differences in their 1869

the 1859 1860 1861 1866

supposed differences in the 1872

→ OMIT 1869

of the islands; 1859 1860 1861 1866 1872

→ is 1866 1869 1872

seems to me 1859 1860 1861

→ seems to have been fully 1869 1872

I believe, has been at least 1859 1860

seems to have been at least 1861 1866

→ a single mammal, 1869 1872

mammals, 1859 1860 1861 1866

→ that hooked seeds are adapted for transportal in 1869

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

that hooks serve for the transportal of seeds in 1872

→ But 1869 1872

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

→ OMIT 1869 1872

but still retaining its hooked seeds, 1859 1860 1861 1866

→ which might still retain the hooks, which would not form a more useless appendage than 1869

having as useless an appendage as any rudimentary organ,— for instance, as 1859 1860 1861 1866

still retaining its hooks, which would form a useless appendage like 1872

in the Galapagos Islands reptiles, and in New Zealand gigantic wingless birds,

take

take,

→or recently took, 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. →Turning to plants, Dr. Hooker has shown that →in the Galapagos Islands the proportional numbers of the different orders are very different from what they are elsewhere. →All such differences in number, and the absence of certain whole groups of animals and plants on islands, are generally accounted for by →supposed differences in their physical

conditions

conditions;

→OMIT but this explanation →is not a little doubtful. Facility of

immigration,

immigration

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

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

remote

oceanic

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

yet

and

few relations are more

striking

manifest

than →that hooked seeds are adapted for transportal in the wool

and

fur of quadrupeds. →But a hooked seed might be

transported

carried

to an island by

some

....

other means; and the plant then becoming

slightly

....

modified,

modified

→OMIT would form an endemic species, →which might still retain the hooks, which would not form a more useless appendage than the shrivelled wings under the soldered

wing-covers

elytra

of many insular beetles. Again, islands often possess trees or bushes belonging to orders

which

....

elsewhere

include

including

only herbaceous species; now trees, as Alph. de Candolle has shown, generally have,