F380    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1860. The origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. New York: D. Appleton. New edition, revised and augmented.   Text   Image   PDF

. But if we look to varieties produced under nature, we are immediately involved in hopeless difficulties; for if two hitherto reputed varieties be found in any degree sterile together, they are at once ranked by most naturalists as species. For instance, the blue and red pimpernel, the primrose and cowslip, which are considered by many of our best botanists as varieties, are said by G rtner not to be quite fertile when crossed, and he consequently ranks them as undoubted species. If we thus argue

F380    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1860. The origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. New York: D. Appleton. New edition, revised and augmented.   Text   Image   PDF

explained if we believe that these species have descended from a striped progenitor, in the same manner as the several domestic breeds of pigeon have descended from the blue and barred rock-pigeon! On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, why should the specific characters, or those by which the species of the same genus differ from each other, be more variable than the generic characters in which they all agree? Why, for instance, should the colour of a flower be more

F380    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1860. The origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. New York: D. Appleton. New edition, revised and augmented.   Text   Image   PDF

continuous succession of genera, 277. on close alliance of fossils in consecutive formations, 293. on embryological succession, 295. Pierce, Mr., on varieties of wolves, 87. Pigeons with feathered feet and skin between toes, 18. breeds described, and origin of, 25. breeds of, how produced, 41, 44. tumbler, not being able to get out of egg, 83. reverting to blue color, 144. instinct of tumbling, 191. carriers, killed by hawks, 315. young of, 387. Pistil, rudimeutary, 392. Plants, poisonous, not affecting

A30    Review:     [Owen, Richard]. 1860. [Review of Origin & other works]. Edinburgh Review, 111: 487-532.   Text   Image   PDF

tail to the head. You will find in the sea species of parrots whose plumage is so varied, the very rarest of birds and the most singularly marked, and they conform to fish coloured like them, black, brown, grey, yellow, green, red, violet, gold and blue coloured, and precisely in the same places where the plumages of these same birds are diversified in such a bizarre way.] Demaillet, it must be admitted, enters more fully into the details of the operation of 'natural selection,' in changing the

A512    Review:     [Church, W. R.] 1860. [Review of] On the origin of species. Guardian (London) (8 February): 134-135.   Text   Image   PDF

supposed original parent of all, the rock-pigeon. This pigeon is of a slaty-blue colour, has a white rump, a dark bar across the tail, and white-edged feather tails. These marks are characteristic of no special breed, and yet perpetually recur, as it were accidentally, in every breed. Whence, then, are they derived, if not from a common ancester? If, then, it must be granted that plants and animals have a great power of variability under man's culture, how is that variability developed? What is

A2915    Periodical contribution:     Brent, B. P. 1860. The Canary and the British finches. The wild Canary of Madeira. Cottage Gardener and Country Gentleman (17 April): 43.   Text   PDF

madeira. Of its habits, Dr. Heineken says, that it builds in thick, bushy, high shrubs and trees, with roots, moss, feathers, hair, c.; that it pairs in February, lays from four to six eggs of a pale -blue colour, and hatches live times (not unfrequently six), in a season. He observes that it is very familiar, haunting and breeding in gardens about the city. It is a delightful songster, says the Skylark's, but none of the Woodlark's song, although three or four Skylarks in confinement, in Funchal

A53    Review:     Hopkins, William. 1860. Physical Theories of the Phenomena of Life. Fraser's Magazine. 61 (June): 739-752; 62 (July): 74-90.   Text   Image   PDF

difficulties; for if two hitherto reputed varieties be found in any degree sterile together, they are at once ranked by most naturalists as species. For instance, the blue and red pimpernel, the primrose and Jowslip, which are considered by many of our best botanists as varieties, are said by G rtner not to be quite fertile when crossed, and he consequently ranks them as undoubted species. If we thus argue in a circle, the fertility of all varieties produced under nature will assuredly have to be

A51    Review:     [Gray, Asa]. 1860. Darwin and his reviewers. Atlantic Monthly. 6 (October): 406-425.   Text   Image   PDF

stood sentinel upon the lawn, as they had stood almost a century ago, when the Revolution rolled that way and found them young One summer morning, when the air was full of country sounds, of mowers in the meadow, blackbirds by the brook, and the low of kine upon the hill-side, the old house wore its cheeriest aspect, and a certain humble history began. Nan! Yes, Di. And a head, brown-locked, blue-eyed, soft-featured, looked in at the open door in answer to the call. Just bring me the third volume

CUL-DAR86.C19    Abstract:    [1861--1877]   Gould [III]: 52-120; IV: pl 211   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [C19] Mr Gould male intense blue on Breast more splendid far more splendid than ♀ p. 52 Campylopterus hemileucurus females as 5 to 2 males (Wallace doubts) Is male most beautiful, or is female in any way aberrant? In this group are males generally more beautiful than ♀. p. 64 Lampornis, tails more beautiful in female than in male - is it upper surface : ratio of sexes. [in margin:] For Salvin 67 Lamp. porphyrurus, female resemble male in its tail

F381    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1861. On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London: John Murray. 3d ed. Seventh thousand.   Text   Image   PDF

pigeon was not feather-footed or turn-crowned, we could not have told, whether these characters in our domestic breeds were reversions or only analogous variations; but we might have inferred that the blueness was a case of reversion, from the number of the markings, which are correlated with the blue tint, and which it does not appear probable would all appear together from simple variation. More especially we might have inferred this, from the blue colour and marks so often appearing when

F381    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1861. On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London: John Murray. 3d ed. Seventh thousand.   Text   Image   PDF

very apt suddenly to acquire these characters. To give one instance out of several which I have observed:—I crossed some white fantails, which breed very true, with some black barbs—and it so happens that blue varieties of barbs are so rare that I never heard of an instance in England; and the mongrels were black, brown, and mottled. I also crossed a barb with a spot, which is a white bird with a red tail and red spot on the forehead, and which notoriously breeds very true; the mongrels were

F381    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1861. On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London: John Murray. 3d ed. Seventh thousand.   Text   Image   PDF

becoming nowhere feral; these species having very abnormal characters in certain respects, as compared with all other Columbidæ, though so like in most other respects to the rock-pigeon; the blue colour and various black marks occasionally appearing in all the breeds, both when kept pure and when crossed; the mongrel offspring being perfectly fertile;—from C 2 [page] 2

F381    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1861. On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London: John Murray. 3d ed. Seventh thousand.   Text   Image   PDF

plants, not to the vera causa of community of descent, and a consequent tendency to vary in a like manner, but to three separate yet closely related acts of creation. With pigeons, however, we have another case, namely, the occasional appearance in all the breeds, of slaty-blue birds with two black bars on the wings, a white croup, a bar at the end of the tail, with the outer I 3 [page] 17

F381    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1861. On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London: John Murray. 3d ed. Seventh thousand.   Text   Image   PDF

been a tendency to reproduce the character in question, which at last, under unknown favourable conditions, gains an ascendancy. For instance, it is probable that in each generation of the barb-pigeon, which produces most rarely a blue and black-barred bird, there has been a tendency in each generation in the plumage to assume this colour. This view is hypothetical, but could be supported by some facts; and I can see no more abstract improbability in a tendency to produce any character being

F381    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1861. On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London: John Murray. 3d ed. Seventh thousand.   Text   Image   PDF

artificially fertilised with their own pollen, and (excluding all cases such as the Leguminosæ, in which there is an acknowledged difficulty in the manipulation) half of these twenty plants had their fertility in some degree impaired. Moreover, as Gärtner during several years repeatedly crossed the primrose and cowslip, which we have such good reason to believe to be varieties, and only once or twice succeeded in getting fertile seed; as he found the common red and blue pimpernels (Anagallis

F381    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1861. On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London: John Murray. 3d ed. Seventh thousand.   Text   Image   PDF

sediment is being deposited over nearly the whole bed of the sea, at a rate sufficiently quick to embed and preserve fossil remains. Throughout an enormously large proportion of the ocean, the bright blue tint of the water bespeaks its purity. The many cases on record of a formation conformably covered, after an enormous interval of time, by another and later formation, without the underlying bed having suffered in the interval any wear and tear, seem explicable only on the view of the bottom of

F381    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1861. On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London: John Murray. 3d ed. Seventh thousand.   Text   Image   PDF

plants, 50. Cape de Verde islands, 430. ——, on classification, 451. Cape of Good Hope, plants of, 142, 405. Berkeley, Mr., on seeds in salt-water, 388. Cassini on flowers of compositæ, 162. Bermuda, birds of, 422. Catasetum, 456. Birds acquiring fear, 232. Cats, with blue eyes, deaf, 12, —— annually cross the Atlantic, 394. ——, variation in habits of, 96. ——, colour of, on continents, 150. —— curling tail when going to spring, 221. ——, footsteps and remains of, in secondary rocks, 329. Cattle

F381    Book:     Darwin, C. R. 1861. On the origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. London: John Murray. 3d ed. Seventh thousand.   Text   Image   PDF

RENGGER. STAG-BEETLES. Rengger on flies destroying cattle, 75. Selection, natural, circumstances favourable to, 107. Reproduction, rate of, 66. Resemblance to parents in mongrels and hybrids, 296. —— objections to term, 84. Sexes, relations of, 92. Reversion, law of inheritance, 14. Sexual characters variable, 174. —— power of, exaggerated, 107. —— selection, 92. —— in pigeons to blue colour, 180. Sheep, Merino, their selection, 32. Rhododendron, sterility of, 274. ——, two sub-breeds

F1714    Periodical contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1861. Cross-breeding in plants. Fertilisation of Leschenaultia formosa. Journal of Horticulture and Cottage Gardener 1 (28 May): 151.   Text   Image   PDF

distinct varieties of the Hollyhock, Stocks, c., must know whether it is indispensable to keep the parent plants apart. I will not trouble Mr. Beaton again if he will have the kindness to procure for me answers on one or two points quoted in his paper (June 26, 1860) from the king of British cross-breeders —namely, whether I understand rightly that the white Anemone apennina seeding in a mass with the blue (Anemone apennina?) produced many pale shades? For this seems to be a case of two varieties

CUL-DAR54.50-54,54v,55-61    Note:    1861.09.07--1861.09.16   Dionaea [application of water, carbonate of ammonia, hair, nitrate of   Text   Image

White Stick blue pin over footstalk Sept 16' 10º 9' put leaf in small Bottle with lump of Cyanide of Pot — bottle most imperfectly closed. 11º 45' aft 1º 35' had not closed Touched with Bristle closed at once Put bit of [illeg] in (a) (Previously tried this with other leaf Blue–headed stick I it closed suddenly after [experiment] of only about a minute but most likely almost certainly I touched sensitive Hair. Sept 17 12º still closed — looks brown externally (B) as the tortoises which I

CUL-DAR54.50-54,54v,55-61    Note:    1861.09.07--1861.09.16   Dionaea [application of water, carbonate of ammonia, hair, nitrate of   Text   Image

Blue–headed stick I Sept 8th I blew as hard as I could out of fine point close to Hairs no effect — dropped large drop of water from same height no effect X 8º 45' managed to put on but of Human Hair much longer than the bit, which excited Drosera.– Sept 9' 9º A m. This leaf had not closed. Filament hard-blowing drop of w. from height Sept 8 Green–Head stick III put on fly touched Hair at 9º 10; touched with Hair in Handle required a considerable touch then closed suddenly — X Sept 9th 9º Leaf

CUL-DAR54.50-54,54v,55-61    Note:    1861.09.07--1861.09.16   Dionaea [application of water, carbonate of ammonia, hair, nitrate of   Text   Image

Brown worsted Sept 9th 9º A.m Last night a fly was caught in this leaf which includes fragment of Hair to measure. Sept 9th 9º A. m. Blue Headed stick I with pin on leaf — In Putting in bit of cork I almost certainly (?) did not touch any hair, yet leaf snapped — This includes bit of Hair to be measured. Sept 10' 9º — Leaf 2/3 open with cork Sept 11 9º nearly open. Sept 11' 6 P.m. quite open The Hairs in Handle which caused movement yesterday projects 4/10 of an inch — say rather less than 1/2

A6598    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, Alfred Russel. 1862. List of birds from the Sula Islands (East of Celebes), with descriptions of the new species. [Read 13 January 1862.] Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (9 December): 333-346, pls. 38-40.   Text

Delicate cobalt-blue, paler and with an ashy tinge on the body beneath; the belly and under tail-coverts nearly white, tinged with ashy blue; wings and tail ashy, the feathers with the outer edges blue; bill and eyelids blue; iris dark; feet blue-lead. Total length 6 inches; wing 3 inches. Hab. Sula Islands and Celebes. Remarks. I have retained for this species the name attached to my Celebesian specimen by Mr. G. R. Gray. In both sexes it is alike, and differs from the common M. cærulea of

CUL-DAR84.2.98-104    Abstract:    1862--1867   [List of reference for Descent] `Ibis' 1862-1866   Text   Image

, Robert. 1863. The ornithology of Formosa, or Taiwan. Ibis 5: 377-435. PDF] Vol 6. 1864 p. 65 Mr C. A. Wright says the Petrocincla Cyanea or blue solitary thrush, is female dull-coloured when adult?? in the nest the male may be easily distinguished from the females by their blue wing coverts. (colour of ♀ not mentioned) [Wright, Charles A. 1864. List of the birds observed in the Islands of Malta and Gozo. Ibis 6: 42-73. PDF] p 104. Mr Wallace on genus Pitta, makes a nest not domed, yet sexes nearly

A6598    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, Alfred Russel. 1862. List of birds from the Sula Islands (East of Celebes), with descriptions of the new species. [Read 13 January 1862.] Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (9 December): 333-346, pls. 38-40.   Text

across the back; wings and tail beneath blue; quills black, the outer edge green above, the inner edge blue beneath; bill black; cere and base of the upper mandible yellow; feet yellow; iris yellow. Total length; 5 inches; wing 3 inches; bill, to nostril, inch. Hab. Sula Islands Remarks. In this fine species the sexes are alike. I have named [page] 33

A6598    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, Alfred Russel. 1862. List of birds from the Sula Islands (East of Celebes), with descriptions of the new species. [Read 13 January 1862.] Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (9 December): 333-346, pls. 38-40.   Text

FACIALIS. Nigro-chalybeus; fronte, gula facieque albis; rostro pedibusque nigris. Male entirely glossy blue-black, except the chin and face, as far as the eyes, white; bill and feet black. Total length 14 inches; wing 7 inches; tail 6 ; inches. Hab, Sula Islands. This species, of which I possess but a single fine specimen, is very like E. melanorhynchus of Celebes, but is smaller and of different proportions, the wing of that species being 8 inches, and the tail 8 inches in length. The white of the

A6598    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, Alfred Russel. 1862. List of birds from the Sula Islands (East of Celebes), with descriptions of the new species. [Read 13 January 1862.] Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (9 December): 333-346, pls. 38-40.   Text

; pedibus rubris. Fœm. Dorso scapularibusque fusco-viridibus; tectricibus caudœ inferioribus albis, viridi maculates. Greenish yellow, richer on the rump, and lighter beneath; top of head and cheeks in front of the eyes ashy blue, paler near the bill; keel of the bill bare above the nostrils; chin nearly white; sides of the neck above and between the shoulders tinged with orange-brown; wings slaty black; secondaries and wing-coverts more or less broadly yellow-margined; under tail-coverts rufous, more

CUL-DAR54.29-38    Note:    1862.09.14   Drosera rotundifolia [application of hair, toenail, sulphate of zinc,   Text   Image

retards action of meat. [in margin:] Blue Stick Thursday 18th Bichloride of mercury (dry) after 10' tried on 5 hairs acted on one (perhaps some accident) but caused no movement in 4. Meat put on produced no movement — Glands became black shrivelled; but almost entirely after a bit of meat has been added; perhaps the meat causes absorption then poisoned [B5v

F1717    Periodical contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1862. On the two forms, or dimorphic condition, in the species of Primula, and on their remarkable sexual relations. [Read 21 November 1861] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London (Botany) 6: 77-96.   Text   Image   PDF

other hand, is quite sterile with its own pollen: several plants grew in my garden, remote from the short-styled plants; their stigmas were coloured blue with their own pollen; but although they produced a vast number of flowers, they did not produce a single seed-capsule. It seemed a hopeless experiment; but I had so much confidence from my trials on Primula, that I put a little pollen from the short-styled plants on the stigmas (already blue with their own pollen) of twelve flowers on two of

F1719    Periodical contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1862. Peas. Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette no. 45 (8 November): 1052.   Text   Image   PDF

Darwin, C. R. 1862. Peas. Gardeners' Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette No. 45 (8 November): 1052. [page] 1052 Peas. Will any one learned in Peas have the kindness to tell me whether Knight's Tall Blue and White Marrows were raised by Knight himself? If so, I presume that they are the offspring of the crosses described by him in the Philosophical Transactions for 1799.1 I find that the name Knight tacked to a Pea is not a guarantee that the sort was of his production. I will beg permission to

A282    Book:     Lyell, Charles. 1863. The geological evidences of the antiquity of man with remarks on the origin of species by variation. 3d ed., revised. London: John Murray.   Text   Image

the strata between East and West Runton. Section of concentric beds west of Cromer. 1 Blue clay. 2 White sand. 3 Yellow sand. 4 Striped loam and clay. 5 Laminated blue clay. bent round a small mass of chalk, or, as in fig. 31, where the blue clay, No. 1, is in the centre; and where the other strata, 2, 3, 4, 5, are coiled round it; the entire mass being twenty [page] 22

A6596    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, Alfred Russel. 1863. List of birds collected in the island of Bouru (one of the Moluccas), with descriptions of the new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (13 January): 18-36, pls. 4-6.   Text

minoribus cœruleis; uropygio albo; tectricibus caudœ superioribus albis, rufo tinctis et nigro marginatis; rectricibus mediis elongatis cœruleis, ad basin fusco et albo maculatis, spatulis albis cœruleo marginatis; aliis albis, externe fusco-cœruleo marginatis, interne albo et nigro maculatis; gula albescente; tectricibus caudœ inferioribus albis. Forehead and crown black, with the feathers blue-margined; a band over the eyes and round the nape brighter blue; ear-coverts, back, and wings deep black

A6596    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, Alfred Russel. 1863. List of birds collected in the island of Bouru (one of the Moluccas), with descriptions of the new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (13 January): 18-36, pls. 4-6.   Text

signs of glossy blue and rufous white beneath; they probably show the immature plumage of the species, of which I have specimens from Ceram and the small islands east of it, and also from Morty, north of Gilolo. MONARCHA LORICATA. (Pl. VI.) Nigro-chalybea, subtus alba; mento gulaque squamatis, nigro-chalybeis; cauda alba, rectricibus mediis nigris, duabus utrinque juxta medium nigro terminatis; rostro pedibusque cœruleo-plumbeis. Blue-black; beneath pure white, except the throat, which is

A6597    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, Alfred Russel. 1863. A list of the birds inhabiting the islands of Timor, Flores, and Lombock, with descriptions of the new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1863 (24 November): 480-497, pl. 39.   Text

olive-margined, the outer three on each side white, narrowly margined with dusky and an olive edge; bill dusky, beneath yellowish; feet lead-colour. Total length 4 inches; wing 2 inches; tail 1 inch; bill, to front, 4/10 inch. Hab. Timor. MYIAGRA RUFIGULA. Cyaneo-plumbea; capite cyaneo-chalybeo; gula et pectore intense rufo-castaneis, abdomine albo; cauda fusco-nigra, rectricibus duabus extimis externe albo marginatis. Lead-blue; head steel-blue; throat and breast vivid chestnut-red; belly and

A6596    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, Alfred Russel. 1863. List of birds collected in the island of Bouru (one of the Moluccas), with descriptions of the new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (13 January): 18-36, pls. 4-6.   Text

MUNIA MOLUCCA. Loxia molucca, L.; Pl. Enl. 139. 2. Hab. Bouru and the Moluccas. TRERON AROMATICA. Columba aromatica, Gm. C. viridis amboinensis, Br. Orn. i. p. 146; Pl. Enl. 163 (fig. pessima). Bill, cere, and eyelids pale dull blue, tip of the bill becoming yellow in dry specimens; iris white; feet dusky purple. Total length 11 inches; wing 6 inches. Hab. Bouru, and probably Amboyna and Ceram. Remarks. Brisson's description of this species is most accurate, and, with the bird before one

A282    Book:     Lyell, Charles. 1863. The geological evidences of the antiquity of man with remarks on the origin of species by variation. 3d ed., revised. London: John Murray.   Text   Image

drift consists of the following subdivisions, beginning with the lowest: No. 2. Stratified loam and sand, five feet thick, containing at one spot, near the base of the cliff at s, fig. 48, Cardium edule, Tellina solidula, and Turritella, with fragments of other shells. Between No. 2 and the chalk No. 1, there usually intervenes a breccia of broken chalk flints. No. 3. Unstratified blue clay or till, with small pebbles Sourthrn extremity of M ens Klint (Puggaard). A Horizontal drift. B Chalk

CUL-DAR84.2.191-192    Abstract:    [Undated]   Jerdon T.C `Birds of India' 1863 II: [much of]   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online 191 T. C. Jerdon, Birds of India. Vol. II. Part I. 1863 p. 96 The Bullfinch Pycnonotus hæmorrhous fight with great spirit — under tail-coverts crimson — when excited they often spread out their feathers laterally, so as to be seen even from above.   Display Q [See Descent 2: 41; 96.] p. 97 Phyllornis Jerdoni the ♀ is bright-coloured with blue patch above, nest open. p. 282 The Sultan yellow-tit. Melanochlora sultanea - magnificent bird, nest in holes

A282    Book:     Lyell, Charles. 1863. The geological evidences of the antiquity of man with remarks on the origin of species by variation. 3d ed., revised. London: John Murray.   Text   Image

3. R. etruscus Falconer, a comparatively slight and slender form, also with an incomplete bony septum,* occurs deep in the Val d'Arno deposits, and in the 'Forest bed,' and superimposed blue clays, with lignite, of the Norfolk coast, but nowhere as yet found in the ossiferous caves in Britain. Dr. Falconer announced in 1860 his opinion that the filling up of the Gower caves in South Wales took place after the deposition of the marine boulder clay, an opinion in harmony with what we have since

A6597    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, Alfred Russel. 1863. A list of the birds inhabiting the islands of Timor, Flores, and Lombock, with descriptions of the new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1863 (24 November): 480-497, pl. 39.   Text

tectricibusque caudœ superioribus coccineis; macula nuchali fulvescente; alis caudaque subtus glauco-viridibus, rectricibus flavo terminatis. Green, above darker; middle of the body beneath with a yellowish tinge; nape fulvous orange; elongate spot on throat red, rump and upper tail-coverts crimson; tail above dark green tipped with yellow and red; quills and tail-feathers beneath margined with verditer-blue; bill red; feet orange-red. Total length 4 inches; wing 3 inches. Hab. Flores. Remarks. This

A6597    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, Alfred Russel. 1863. A list of the birds inhabiting the islands of Timor, Flores, and Lombock, with descriptions of the new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1863 (24 November): 480-497, pl. 39.   Text

; breast tinged with rosy ash; tail and under tail-coverts dark rufous; rump and upper tail-coverts glossy chestnut-brown; bill and feet blue-lead; iris dark. Total length 4 inches; wing 2 1/5 inches. Hab. Lombock and Flores. Remarks. Very near Munia maja, L., but differs in the much paler colouring of both upper and under surface. AMADINA INSULARIS. Fusco-cinerea, subtus albida; gula et pectoris lateribus cinereis, macula pectorali nigra undulata; macula magna auriculari, antice nigro marginata, rufa

CUL-DAR110.A31-A33    Printed:    [1863--1868]   On the existence of two forms, and on their reciprocal sexual relation, in several species of the genus Linum. [Read 5 February.] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society (Botany) 7: : pp. 81-83 And clipping from On the specific difference between Primula veris, pp. 449-450 (F1744)   Text   Image

know not which), and there was no trace of dimorphism. Again, I raised 111 plants from seed sent me from Kew, incorrectly named L. Austriacum; the plants were tall and straight, having a rather different aspect from the wild species seen at Torquay, with extremely fugacious blue flowers: in all these plants the stigmas stood on a level with the anthers or projected a very little above them. I protected the flowers from insects; but every one of the 111 plants produced plenty of seed. I mention

A6596    Periodical contribution:     Wallace, Alfred Russel. 1863. List of birds collected in the island of Bouru (one of the Moluccas), with descriptions of the new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (13 January): 18-36, pls. 4-6.   Text

EOS RUBRA, var. Psittacus borneus, L. P. ruber, Gm., Wagl. Mon. Psitt. p. 558. Hab. Bouru, Amboyna, Ceram, and Matabello Islands. The specimens are rather smaller than those from Amboyna, and have more blue on the wing-coverts, and often a greenish tinge on the wings and tail, which makes them agree with the descriptions of P. borneus of the old authors. Might not Bouru have been mistaken for Borneo, and thus led to the erroneous name? Note. Besides the preceding five species of Psittaci

F1723    Periodical contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1863. On the existence of two forms, and on their reciprocal sexual relation, in several species of the genus Linum. [Read 5 February] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society (Botany) 7: 69-83. 1 text figure.   Text   Image   PDF

know not which), and there was no trace of dimorphism. Again, I raised 111 plants from seed sent me from Kew, incorrectly named L. Austriacum; the plants were tall and straight, having a rather different aspect from the wild species seen at Torquay, with extremely fugacious blue flowers: in all these plants the stigmas stood on a level with the anthers or projected a very little above them. I protected the flowers from insects; but every one of the 111 plants produced plenty of seed. I mention

F1724    Periodical contribution:     Darwin, C. R. 1863. On the thickness of the Pampean formation, near Buenos Ayres. [Read 3 December 1862] Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 19 (1 February): 68-71, 2 text figures.   Text   Image   PDF

of the great estuarine or Pampean formation near Buenos Ayres is nearly 210 feet. Fig. 2.—Detailed Section of the Artesian Well at Barracas. Thickness in metres. a. Sand................................................... 4.33 b. Very arenaceous clay......................... 8.02 c. { Fine clay............................................. 1.05 Blue plastic clay................................. 2.90 d. Tosca with calcareous nodules.......... 2.30 e. Yellow sand, very fine and fluid, with quartz

CUL-DAR49.88    Note:    1863.05.00   L[obelia] fulgens in Hot-House — front of column & lower lip of corolla   Text   Image

in little blue Lobelia

CUL-DAR76.B88    Note:    1863.06.24   Salvia tenori / Fertilised 5 flowers & marked with white threads -   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [88] Jun 24th 1863 Salvia Tenori over Fertilised 5 flowers marked with white threads — others untouched. (saw many Hive Bee visiting open plants bringing out anther) July 9th fertilised 3 flowers— (2 on one stem) white wool, with pollen of tall blue Salvia. patens? in Flower garden (Dichogamy) July 15. Every Every flower of plant uncovered had fine seeds. — I examined six spikes under net all the 5 flower which I fertilised produced fine seeds.— On 6

CUL-DAR83.45    Abstract:    [1864--1870]   Brehm `[Thierleben?]' I: 117   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [45] Brehm vol I 117 Chrysothrix torquata face naked — white. shading into blue — Pithecia whiskers beard large Brehm, Alfred Edmund. 1864-1867. Illustrirtes Thierleben. Eine allgemeine Kunde des Thierreichs. 4 vols. Hildburghausen: Verlag der Bibliographischen Instituts. [Darwin Library-Down] vol. 1 PDF link vol. 2 PDF link vol. 3 PDF link vol. 4 PDF lin

CUL-DAR84.2.133    Abstract:    [1864--1871]   Audubon ` IV: 392; Jerdon I   Text   Image

The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [133] Young males of Tanagra rubra distinguishable from females. Audubon. Vol. IV. p. 392. do a blue Nuthatch.  Jerdon. Vol I. p. 389, distinguishable even in nest. Dendrophila frontalis Stonechat - Young ♂ Black-cock? Saxicola rubicola p 203. The following additional instances may be just mentioned. Audubon, John James. 1831-1839. Ornithological biography: Birds of the United States of America. 5 vols. Edinburgh: Adam Black. vol. 4 PDF Jerdon, Thomas

CUL-DAR242[.29]    Note:    1865   [Emma Darwin's diary for: 1865]   Text   Image

Sunday, 7 May 1865 Monday, 8 May 1865 Cicely Cic - Tuesday, 9 May 1865 Susan Mary Wednesday, 10 May 1865 C. very unwell all day. Thursday, 11 May 1865 Friday, 12 May 1865 I took blue pill Susan Mary went C. poorly Saturday, 13 May 1865 H. to London C. tol May 186

CUL-DAR242[.29]    Note:    1865   [Emma Darwin's diary for: 1865]   Text   Image

Sunday, 9 July 1865 v.g. day bad sickness 12.30 p.m. Monday, 10 July 1865 g. day- Tuesday, 11 July 1865 hot very brisk Wednesday, 12 July 1865 v.g. day began quinine sick 10-30 Thursday, 13 July 1865 rather uncomf sick 5- uncomf night Took blue pill Friday, 14 July 1865 uncomf. mg. S. E. W. came began chalk Saturday, 15 July 1865 sick 10- 1-30 4- 6-30 10- very uncomf 8 July 186