RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Geoffroy, Jussieu in Memoires du Museum (Paris), vols. 17, 19. CUL-DAR73.34-35. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/).
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Kees Rookmaaker, edited by John van Wyhe 3.2014. RN1
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Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, Isidore. 1828. Remarques sur les caracteres generaux des singes americains. Memoires du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 17: 121-165.
Jussieu, Adrien du. 1830. Memoire sur le groupe des Meliacées. Memoires du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 19: 153-304.
Tome XVII. Caracteres des Singes Americains. Frid. G. St. Hilaire. p. 129. The distribution of Mammifer more distinct, & this accords well their late credit subsequent to division of continent.
Frid. G. St. Hilaire has written "Considerations generales sur les Mammiferes" & in this has discussed domestication.
Cuvier in Tom. I. (p. 657) of Ossemens Fossiles has discussed extinct species but varieties of present species.
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Tom. 18. nothing
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Tom. XIX. Memoire sur le groupe des Meliacees. p. 157. — Les feuilles sont alternes dans toutes les Meliacees; on ne peut citer à cette règle qu'une exception unique (Quivisia oppositifolia), qui d'ailleurs n'est. CD.
pas constante." Case of anomaly in species being variable. — My books is not same of 4th series in Acente spingiter, parallel case. In Pollicipes the branchiae or prismae variavle. (?)
do. p. 181. the Meliacees present remarkable variation in the structure of their seeds, of which embryo sometimes naked & sometimes with perisperm &c &c. — "il existe même un genre (amongst the Gallifères & I presume Sterculia), dans les espèces duquel la radicule regarde tantot le hile et tantot l'extremite opposée." Does this point vary in actual species."
do. p. 210. — a relation in march of affinities in the Adrilacees & their geograph. distrib. A corollary of this, in the concentration of the species of the same genus in same regions of the world.
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Vol. XX end of series. Nothing. —
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