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Catalogue of Charles Robert Darwin's pamphlet collection: Quarto
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21 546 Hagens on mixed colonies of ants 278 Haliburton on Sucessing 28 Hamilton Address to Royal Geographical Society. 851 Hartmann Zeugung Vererbung 616 Hartmann Die Haussangethiere der Nillander 683 Hartmann Naturgent Milländer (Domestic animals 111 Hardback Deriviation of Man 1007 --- HARTUNG, G. ---- PHILOSIPHIE NAT-WISSENSCAFT 103 Harvey — On Algae of N. America 108 Harvey Remarkable Effect of Cross Breeding 807 Hasse C Morphologie des Gehörorganes 535 Hayden Yellowstone Missouri Rivers
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CUL-DAR252.5
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32 602 Maassen Number and variability of Butterflies 231 (bis) M'Andrew on comparative size of Shells 86 M'Andrew — Geographical Distribution of Testaceous Mollusca 1494 Mc Cook Ants 1494 258 Mac Donnell on Electrical organs 293 M' Donnell on Lepidorizen 1718 w Mac Donnel Vivisection 391 Macknight Madden True principles of Breeding 29 Maclaren — On Grooved Striated Rocks in middle Scotland = Maclay (Von Maklucho=) N. Papuans 584 M'Lenn [illeg] Worship of Animals Plants 928 Magnus Potato graft
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Darwin, C. R. 1878. The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom. 2d ed. London: John Murray.
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bracte , or flower peduncles, or on the outside of their calyx, and these glands secrete minute drops of a sweet fluid, which is eagerly sought by sugar-loving insects, such as ants, hive-bees, and wasps. In the case of the glands on the stipules of Vicia sativa, the excretion manifestly depends on changes in the sap, consequent on the sun shining brightly; for I repeatedly observed that as soon as the sun was hidden behind clouds the secretion ceased, and the hive-bees left the field; but as
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, 330 Neotropical region, mammalia of, 331 birds of, 332 Nests of humming-birds, 137 Newton, Professor, on appearance of living humming-birds, 130 New Zealand, poor in flowers and injects, 235 New World, regions of the, 329 North American earth-works, 292 Nuttall, Mr. on the rufous flame-bearer, 131 Nymphalidæ, local resemblances of species of distinct genera of, 257 O. OCEANIC ISLANDS, peculiar floras of, 269 theory of, 307 Odontomachus, genus of ants, 82 Odour deficient in New Zealand flowers
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Pigs, white poisoned in Virginia, black not, 265 Pipes from N. American mounds, 295 Plantain, 48 Plantain-eaters, 197 Plants, protective coloration in, 223 Platycerium, 47 Plumage of tropical birds, 109 of humming-birds, 128 Polyrachis, genus of ants, 81 Polyalthea, tree with flowers on trunk,35 Polygonum bistorta, P. aviculare, 233 Pontia rapœ, changes of colour of chrysalis of, 168 Ponera clavata, terrible sting of, 82 Portraits on sculptured pipes from mounds, 295 Prosthemadera in the
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CUL-DAR252.5
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Catalogue of Charles Robert Darwin's pamphlet collection: Quarto
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researches. 79 Forbes — On Investigation of British Marine Zoology by the Dredge 884 Forel (Aug) Polyergus rufescens 628 Forel Faux Abruisine Cyques 965. --- FOREL, A. ----- STUDIES ON ANTS 1875. [33
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, attractive, 224 protective, 225 Colours, which first perceived, 243 Cometes sparganurus, very pugnacious, 214 Compositæ, arborescent in oceanic islands, 276 Continent, past changes of the great Eastern, 321 Continents of Tertiary period, probable aspect of, 343 Copridæ, 95 probable use of horns of, 202 Crematogaster, genus of ants, 83 Cross-fertilization of flowers, use of, 228 complex arrangements for, 229 Cuckoos, 104 D. DANAIDæ, warning colours of, 174 Danainæ, Acræinæ and Heliconiinæ, local
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commonest ants in all parts of the world are the species of the family Formicidæ, which do not sting, and are most of them quite harmless. Some make delicate papery nests, others live under stones or among grass. Several of them accompany Aphides to feed upon the sweet secretions from their bodies. They vary in size from the large Formica gigas, more than an inch long, to minute species so small as to be hardly visible. Those of the genus Polyrachis, which are plentiful in all Eastern forests, are
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pugnacious, and, when disturbed will follow the intruders for miles, stinging severely. Orthoptera and other Insects. Next to the butterflies and ants, the insects that are most likely to attract the attention of the stranger in the tropics are the various forms of Mantidæ and Phasmidæ, some of which are remarkable for their strange attitudes and bright colours; while others are among the most singular of known insects, owing to their resemblance to sticks and leaves. The Mantidæ usually called
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disguises. Mr. Belt records a curious instance of the actual operation of this kind of defence in a leaf-like locust, which remained perfectly quiescent in the midst of a host of insectivorous ants, which ran over it without finding out that it was an insect and not a leaf! It might have [page] 9
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flown away from them, but it would then instantly have fallen a prey to the numerous birds which always accompany these roaming hordes of ants to feed upon the insects that endeavour to escape. Far more conspicuous than any of these imitative species are the large locusts, with rich crimson or blue-and-black spotted wings. Some of these are nearly a foot in expanse of wings; they fly by day, and their strong spiny legs probably serve as a protection against all the smaller birds. They cannot
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The Longicorns are elegantly shaped beetles, usually with long antennæ and legs, varied in form and structure in an endless variety of ways, and adorned with equally varied colours, spots and markings. Some are large and massive insects three or four inches long, while others are no bigger than our smaller ants. The majority have sober colours, but often delicately marbled, veined, or spotted; while others are red, or blue, or yellow, or adorned with the richest metallic tints. Their antennæ
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Some live on ants upon the ground, others peck minute insects from the bark of trees; one group will devour bees and wasps, others prefer caterpillars; while a host of small birds seek for insects in the corollas of flowers. The air, the earth, the undergrowth, the tree-trunks, the flowers, and the fruits, all support their specially adapted tribes of birds. Each species fills a place in nature, and can only continue to exist so long as that place is open to it; and each has become what it is
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briefly summarize the general aspects of animal life as forming an ingredient in the scenery and natural phenomena of the equatorial regions. Most prominent are the butterflies, owing to their numbers, their size, and their brilliant colours; as well as their peculiarities of form, and the slow and majestic flight of many of them. In other insects, the large size, and frequency of protective colours and markings are prominent features; together with the inexhaustible profusion of the ants and
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information, those who have attempted to bring live humming-birds to this country have fed them exclusively on syrup; and the weakness produced by this insufficient food has no doubt been the chief cause of their death on, or very soon after, arrival. A box of ants would not be difficult to bring as food for them; but even finely-chopped meat or yolk of egg would probably serve, in the absence of insects, to supply the necessary proportion of animal food. Nests. The nests of the humming-birds are
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resemblance to some species of the uneatable groups found in the same locality. In like manner there are a few eatable beetles which exactly resemble species of uneatable groups; and others, which are soft, imitate those which are uneatable through their hardness. For the same reason wasps are imitated by moths, and ants by beetles; and even poisonous snakes are mimicked by harmless snakes, and dangerous hawks by defenceless cuckoos. How these curious imitations have been brought about, and
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difficult for these birds to swallow such insects, and would therefore be an efficient protection; just as are the hooked spines of some stingless ants and the excessively hard integuments of many beetles, against the smaller insectivorous birds. Cause of the greater Brilliancy of some Female Insects. The facts given by Mr. Darwin to show that butterflies and other insects can distinguish colours and are attracted by colours similar to their own, are quite consistent with the view that colour, which
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of birds, 371; imperfectly developed male and female Termites, 381; on ferns and ants, 406; foodbodies in Cecropia, 406; on the glands on calyx of Malpighice , 407 M ller, Hermann, fertilisation of flowers by insects, 6, 7; on Digitalis purpurea, 82; Calceolaria, 87;Linaria vulgaris, 88; Verbascum nigrum, 89; the common cabbage, 98; Papaver dubium, 107; Viola tricolor, 123, 124; structure of Delphinium consolida, 129; of Lupinus luteus, 147; flowers of Pisum sativum, 160, 161; on Sarothamnus
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F. FEMALE birds, greater brilliancy of some, 211 Female insects, greater brilliancy of some, 203 Ferns, 46 Ferns, preponderance of in Tahiti and Juan Fernandez, 269, 270 Fiji Islands, pale butterflies of, 259 Fire-ants, 83 Fishes, causes of general coloration of, 171 Flowering-trunks, probable cause of, 34 Flowers, comparative scarcity of in equatorial forests, 60 Flowers and insects, 64 Flowers of temperate zones brilliantly coloured, 165 comparatively scarce in tropical forests, 167 Flowers
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CUL-DAR252.5
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Catalogue of Charles Robert Darwin's pamphlet collection: Quarto
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: 309-319, pl. XXIII. (2 copies) [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 1062] PDF 1104 DARWIN, F FOOD BODIES FERN GLAND Darwin, Francis. 1876. On the glandular bodies on Acacia sphaerocephala and Cecropia peltata, serving as food for ants. With an appendix on the nectar-glands of the common brake fern, Pteris aquilina. [Read 1 June.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) (1877): 398-409, pl. VI. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 1104] PDF FD Brit Assoc Rep 1963 1214 Darwin F. Teasel Q.J. M Sc Darwin, Francis
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