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Wallace, A. R. 1880. Island life: or, the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates. London: Macmillan & Co.
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rows of scales, the tail thicker, and the muzzle longer. In colour it is ashy brown above, greenish blue beneath, with a white line black-margined on the sides, and it seems to be tolerably abundant in the islands. This lizard is especially interesting at the only vertebrate animal which exhibits any peculiarity. Birds. Notwithstanding its small size, low altitude, and remote position, a great number of birds visit Bermuda annually, some in large numbers, others only as accidental stragglers
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rows of scales, the tail thicker, and the muzzle longer. In colour it is ashy brown above, greenish blue beneath, with a white line black-margined on the sides, and it seems to be tolerably abundant in the islands. This lizard is especially interesting at the only vertebrate animal which exhibits any peculiarity. Birds. Notwithstanding its small size, low altitude, and remote position, a great number of birds visit Bermuda annually, some in large numbers, others only as accidental stragglers
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Wallace, A. R. 1880. Island life: or, the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates. London: Macmillan & Co.
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17 Melizophilus undatus Dartford Warbler. 18 Sylvia rufa Greater Whitethroat. 19 salicaria Garden Warbler. 20 atricapilla Blackcap. 21 orphea Orphean Warbler. 22 Phylloscopus sibilatrix Wood Wren. 23 trochilus Willow Wren. 24 collybita Chiffchaff. 25 Regulus cristatus Golden-crested Wren. 26 ignicapillus Fire-crested Wren. 27 Troglodytes parvulus Wren. 28 Sitta cœsia Nuthatch. 29 Motacilla alba White Wagtail (also W. Africa). 30 flava Blue-headed Wagtail. 31 Anthus pratensis Meadow-Pipit. 32
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17 Melizophilus undatus Dartford Warbler. 18 Sylvia rufa Greater Whitethroat. 19 salicaria Garden Warbler. 20 atricapilla Blackcap. 21 orphea Orphean Warbler. 22 Phylloscopus sibilatrix Wood Wren. 23 trochilus Willow Wren. 24 collybita Chiffchaff. 25 Regulus cristatus Golden-crested Wren. 26 ignicapillus Fire-crested Wren. 27 Troglodytes parvulus Wren. 28 Sitta cœsia Nuthatch. 29 Motacilla alba White Wagtail (also W. Africa). 30 flava Blue-headed Wagtail. 31 Anthus pratensis Meadow-Pipit. 32
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Wallace, A. R. 1880. Island life: or, the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates. London: Macmillan & Co.
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CENTRAL OR NORTH-EAST ASIA. 1 Lanius collurio Red-backed Shrike (also all Africa). 2 Oriolus Galbula Golden Orio'e (also all Africa). 3 Turdus musicus Song-Thrush. 4 iliacus Red-wing. 5 pilaris Fieldfare. 6 Monticola saxatilis Blue rock Thrush. 7 Ruticilla suecica Bluethroat (also India in winter). 8 Saxicola rubicola Stonechat (also India in winter). 9 œnanthe Wheatear (also N. America). 10 Acrocephalus arundinaceus Great Reed-Warbler. 11 Sylvia curruca Lesser Whitethroat. 12 Parus major Great
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Blue Titmouse. 8 ater Coal Titmouse. 9 palustris Marsh Titmouse. 10 Acredula caudata Long-tailed Titmouse. 11 Ampelis garrulus Wax-wing. 12 Anthus richardi Richard's Pipit. 13 Alauda alpestris Shore Lark (also N. America). 14 Plectrophanes nivalis Snow-Bunting (also N. America). 15 lapponicus Lapland Bunting. 16 Emberiza rustica Rustic Bunting (also China). 17 pusilla Little Bunting. 18 Linota linaria Mealy Redpole (also N. America). 19 Pyrrhula erythrina Scarlet Grosbeak (also N. India, China). 20
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CENTRAL OR NORTH-EAST ASIA. 1 Lanius collurio Red-backed Shrike (also all Africa). 2 Oriolus Galbula Golden Orio'e (also all Africa). 3 Turdus musicus Song-Thrush. 4 iliacus Red-wing. 5 pilaris Fieldfare. 6 Monticola saxatilis Blue rock Thrush. 7 Ruticilla suecica Bluethroat (also India in winter). 8 Saxicola rubicola Stonechat (also India in winter). 9 œnanthe Wheatear (also N. America). 10 Acrocephalus arundinaceus Great Reed-Warbler. 11 Sylvia curruca Lesser Whitethroat. 12 Parus major Great
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Blue Titmouse. 8 ater Coal Titmouse. 9 palustris Marsh Titmouse. 10 Acredula caudata Long-tailed Titmouse. 11 Ampelis garrulus Wax-wing. 12 Anthus richardi Richard's Pipit. 13 Alauda alpestris Shore Lark (also N. America). 14 Plectrophanes nivalis Snow-Bunting (also N. America). 15 lapponicus Lapland Bunting. 16 Emberiza rustica Rustic Bunting (also China). 17 pusilla Little Bunting. 18 Linota linaria Mealy Redpole (also N. America). 19 Pyrrhula erythrina Scarlet Grosbeak (also N. India, China). 20
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F1280
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Darwin, C. R. 1880. The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species. London: John Murray. 2s edition.
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shall presently return. Differently from what occurs in L. grandiflorum, the long-styled flowers have stamens hardly more than half the length of those in the short-styled. The size of the pollen-grains is rather variable; after some doubt, I have come to the conclusion that there is no uniform difference between the grains in the two forms. The long stamens in the short-styled form project to some height above the corolla, and their filaments are coloured blue apparently from exposure to the
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F1280
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Darwin, C. R. 1880. The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species. London: John Murray. 2s edition.
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other Monocotyledonous plant is known to be heterostyled. Moreover, The flowers are irregular, and all other heterostyled plants have almost symmetrical flowers. The two forms differ somewhat in the colour of their corollas, that of the short-styled being of a darker blue, whilst that of the long-styled [page] 18
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NHM-WP6.4.1
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[1880]
"Darwin's notes on 'Island Life'" and "Notes have been recorded in text."
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!] marginal insertion by Darwin in the same blue ink.
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Wallace, A. R. 1880. Island life: or, the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates. London: Macmillan & Co.
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to Texas and New Mexico in America, and to North India and Lake Baikal in Asia; while the little northern willow-wren (Phylloscopus borealis) ranges from Norway across Asia to Alaska, and southward to Ceylon, China, Borneo, and Timor. Of very restricted continental ranges the best examples in Europe are, the little blue magpie (Cyanopica cooki) confined to the central portions of the Spanish peninsula; and the Italian sparrow found only in Italy and Corsica. In Asia, Palestine affords some
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Wallace, A. R. 1880. Island life: or, the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates. London: Macmillan & Co.
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. cyaneicollis); and among insects we have at Santarem, on the south bank of the Amazon, the beautiful blue butterfly, Callithea sapphira, while almost opposite to it, at Monte-alegre, an allied species, Callithea Leprieuri is alone found. Perhaps the most interesting and best known case of a series of allied species, whose ranges are separate but conterminous, is that of the beautiful South American wading birds, called trumpeters, and forming the genus Psophia. There are five species, all found in
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Wallace, A. R. 1880. Island life: or, the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates. London: Macmillan & Co.
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and less brightly coloured, and with black orbits; yet these are the most widely separated species of the genus. 12. Garrulus lidthi. This is the handsomest of all the jays, the head, neck, and wings being azure blue. Its locality was long doubtful, but it has now been ascertained to inhabit Japan, where it is evidently very rare, its exact habitat being still unknown. In the accompanying map (see frontispiece) we have laid down the distribution of each species so far as it can be ascertained from
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Wallace, A. R. 1880. Island life: or, the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates. London: Macmillan & Co.
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remarkable case among European birds is that of the blue magpies, forming the genus Cyanopica. One species (C. cooki) is confined (as already stated) to the wooded and mountainous districts of Spain and Portugal, while the only other species of the genus (C. cyanus) is found far away in North-eastern Asia and Japan, so that the two species are separated by about 5,000 miles of continuous land. Another case is that of the curious little water-moles forming the genus Mygale, one species M. muscovitica
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Wallace, A. R. 1880. Island life: or, the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates. London: Macmillan & Co.
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named Urotrichus, of which one species inhabits Japan and the other British Columbia. The cuckoo-like honey-guides, forming the genus Indicator, are tolerably abundant in tropical Africa, but there are two outlying species, one in the Eastern Himalaya mountains, the other in Borneo, both very rare, and quite recently an allied species has been found in the Malay peninsula. The beautiful blue and green thrush-tits forming the genus Cochoa, have two species in the Eastern Himalayas, while the
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Wallace, A. R. 1880. Island life: or, the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates. London: Macmillan & Co.
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like starlings to the hang-nests, Icteridæ and these four peculiar families comprise more than a hundred species, and give a special character to the ornithology of the country. Add to these such peculiar birds as the mocking thrushes (Mimus), the blue jays (Cyanocitta), the tanagers, the peculiar genera of cuckoos (Coccygus and Crotophaga), the humming-birds, the wild turkeys (Meleagris), and the turkey-buzzards (Cathartes), and we see that if there is any doubt as to the mammals of North
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Wallace, A. R. 1880. Island life: or, the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates. London: Macmillan & Co.
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.5 to 21 per cent., and the tail from 14 to 22.5 per cent. In Sialia sialis (the blue-bird) the middle toe varied from 77 to 91 inch, and the hind toe from .58 to .72 inch, or more than 21.5 per cent. on the mean, while the bill varied from .45 to .56 inch in length, and from .30 to .38 inch in width, or about 20 per cent. in both cases. In Dendrœca coronata (the yellow-crowned warbler) the quills vary in proportionate length, so that the 1st, the 2nd, the 3rd, or the 4th, is sometimes longest
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Wallace, A. R. 1880. Island life: or, the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates. London: Macmillan & Co.
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in caves, brick-earths, and gravels of palæolithic age. Entire skeletons of this animal have been found at Leeds in a bed of dark blue clay overlaid by gravel. Further north, at Kirkdale cave, in N. Lat. 54 .15', remains of the hippopotamus occur abundantly along with those of the ox, elephant, horse, and other quadrupeds, and with countless remains of the hyænas which devoured them; while it has also been found in cave deposits in Glamorganshire, at Durdham Down, near Bristol, and in the post
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Wallace, A. R. 1880. Island life: or, the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates. London: Macmillan & Co.
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6. Cardinalis virginianus. (The Cardinal bird.) Migrates from Carolina southward. 7. Chamæpelia passerina. (The Ground Dove.) Louisiana, W. Indies, and Mexico. 8. Ortyx virginianus. (The American Quail.) New England to Florida. 9. Ardea herodias. (The Great Blue Heron.) All North America. 10. Fulica americana. (The American Coot.) Temperate and tropical North America. It will be seen that these are all very common North American birds, and most of them are constant visitors from the mainland
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Wallace, A. R. 1880. Island life: or, the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates. London: Macmillan & Co.
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Africa. The genera which are more peculiarly Indian are, Copsychus and Hypsipetes, also found in Madagascar; and Palœornis, which has species in Mauritius and Rodriguez, as well as one on the continent of Africa. A black parrot (Coracopsis), con-generic with two species that inhabit Madagascar and with one that is peculiar to the Comoros; and a beautiful red-headed blue pigeon (Alectorœnas pulcherrimus) allied to those of Madagascar and Mauritius, but very distinct, are the most remarkable
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Wallace, A. R. 1880. Island life: or, the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates. London: Macmillan & Co.
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varies greatly in colour in the different islands, so that he could always tell from which particular island a specimen had been brought. This is analogous to the curious fact of certain lizards on the small islands in the Mediterranean being always very different in colour from those of the mainland, usually becoming rich blue or black (see Nature, Vol. XIX. p. 97); and we thus learn how readily in some cases differences of colour are brought about by local conditions. Snakes, as is usually
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A1016
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Wallace, A. R. 1880. Island life: or, the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates. London: Macmillan & Co.
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not yet risen from the ocean. The whole of this part of the country consists of Palæozoic and Secondary formations with granite and metamorphic rocks, the Secondary deposits being largely developed on both sides of the central range, extending the whole length of the continent from Tasmania to Cape York, and constituting the greater part of the plateau of the Blue Mountains and other lofty ranges. During some portion of the Secondary period, therefore, this side of Australia must have been almost
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to Texas and New Mexico in America, and to North India and Lake Baikal in Asia; while the little northern willow-wren (Phylloscopus borealis) ranges from Norway across Asia to Alaska, and southward to Ceylon, China, Borneo, and Timor. Of very restricted continental ranges the best examples in Europe are, the little blue magpie (Cyanopica cooki) confined to the central portions of the Spanish peninsula; and the Italian sparrow found only in Italy and Corsica. In Asia, Palestine affords some
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. cyaneicollis); and among insects we have at Santarem, on the south bank of the Amazon, the beautiful blue butterfly, Callithea sapphira, while almost opposite to it, at Monte-alegre, an allied species, Callithea Leprieuri is alone found. Perhaps the most interesting and best known case of a series of allied species, whose ranges are separate but conterminous, is that of the beautiful South American wading birds, called trumpeters, and forming the genus Psophia. There are five species, all found in
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and less brightly coloured, and with black orbits; yet these are the most widely separated species of the genus. 12. Garrulus lidthi. This is the handsomest of all the jays, the head, neck, and wings being azure blue. Its locality was long doubtful, but it has now been ascertained to inhabit Japan, where it is evidently very rare, its exact habitat being still unknown. In the accompanying map (see frontispiece) we have laid down the distribution of each species so far as it can be ascertained from
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remarkable case among European birds is that of the blue magpies, forming the genus Cyanopica. One species (C. cooki) is confined (as already stated) to the wooded and mountainous districts of Spain and Portugal, while the only other species of the genus (C. cyanus) is found far away in North-eastern Asia and Japan, so that the two species are separated by about 5,000 miles of continuous land. Another case is that of the curious little water-moles forming the genus Mygale, one species M. muscovitica
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named Urotrichus, of which one species inhabits Japan and the other British Columbia. The cuckoo-like honey-guides, forming the genus Indicator, are tolerably abundant in tropical Africa, but there are two outlying species, one in the Eastern Himalaya mountains, the other in Borneo, both very rare, and quite recently an allied species has been found in the Malay peninsula. The beautiful blue and green thrush-tits forming the genus Cochoa, have two species in the Eastern Himalayas, while the
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like starlings to the hang-nests, Icteridæ and these four peculiar families comprise more than a hundred species, and give a special character to the ornithology of the country. Add to these such peculiar birds as the mocking thrushes (Mimus), the blue jays (Cyanocitta), the tanagers, the peculiar genera of cuckoos (Coccygus and Crotophaga), the humming-birds, the wild turkeys (Meleagris), and the turkey-buzzards (Cathartes), and we see that if there is any doubt as to the mammals of North
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.5 to 21 per cent., and the tail from 14 to 22.5 per cent. In Sialia sialis (the blue-bird) the middle toe varied from 77 to 91 inch, and the hind toe from .58 to .72 inch, or more than 21.5 per cent. on the mean, while the bill varied from .45 to .56 inch in length, and from .30 to .38 inch in width, or about 20 per cent. in both cases. In Dendrœca coronata (the yellow-crowned warbler) the quills vary in proportionate length, so that the 1st, the 2nd, the 3rd, or the 4th, is sometimes longest
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in caves, brick-earths, and gravels of palæolithic age. Entire skeletons of this animal have been found at Leeds in a bed of dark blue clay overlaid by gravel. Further north, at Kirkdale cave, in N. Lat. 54 .15', remains of the hippopotamus occur abundantly along with those of the ox, elephant, horse, and other quadrupeds, and with countless remains of the hyænas which devoured them; while it has also been found in cave deposits in Glamorganshire, at Durdham Down, near Bristol, and in the post
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6. Cardinalis virginianus. (The Cardinal bird.) Migrates from Carolina southward. 7. Chamæpelia passerina. (The Ground Dove.) Louisiana, W. Indies, and Mexico. 8. Ortyx virginianus. (The American Quail.) New England to Florida. 9. Ardea herodias. (The Great Blue Heron.) All North America. 10. Fulica americana. (The American Coot.) Temperate and tropical North America. It will be seen that these are all very common North American birds, and most of them are constant visitors from the mainland
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Africa. The genera which are more peculiarly Indian are, Copsychus and Hypsipetes, also found in Madagascar; and Palœornis, which has species in Mauritius and Rodriguez, as well as one on the continent of Africa. A black parrot (Coracopsis), con-generic with two species that inhabit Madagascar and with one that is peculiar to the Comoros; and a beautiful red-headed blue pigeon (Alectorœnas pulcherrimus) allied to those of Madagascar and Mauritius, but very distinct, are the most remarkable
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varies greatly in colour in the different islands, so that he could always tell from which particular island a specimen had been brought. This is analogous to the curious fact of certain lizards on the small islands in the Mediterranean being always very different in colour from those of the mainland, usually becoming rich blue or black (see Nature, Vol. XIX. p. 97); and we thus learn how readily in some cases differences of colour are brought about by local conditions. Snakes, as is usually
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not yet risen from the ocean. The whole of this part of the country consists of Palæozoic and Secondary formations with granite and metamorphic rocks, the Secondary deposits being largely developed on both sides of the central range, extending the whole length of the continent from Tasmania to Cape York, and constituting the greater part of the plateau of the Blue Mountains and other lofty ranges. During some portion of the Secondary period, therefore, this side of Australia must have been almost
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F1323
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Darwin, C. R. 1880. Erasmus Darwin und seine Stellung in der Geschichte der Descendenz-Theorie von Ernst Krause. Mit seinem Lebens- und Charakterbilde von Charles Darwin. Leipzig: E. Günther.
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* from Heauty's ears, Not the bright stars, which night's blue arch adom, Nor rising snns that gild the vemal Morn, Mine ,mth such lustre as the lern- thnt flows Cown Firtue's manhj cheek for other's «W, « Dieso eindringlichen Wortf werdfn ihren Emkwock kanm vfrfehlt lmbcn, und neben dem Eindrnck, welchen die Beden von Will.crforce nnd Pitt anf das Partament machten, dürfte auoh da8 Dichtorwort seinen Einfluss bei der bald naoh seinem Tode (1807) erfolgten Aufhebong in Sklavenhandels gehabt haben
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Darwin, C. R. 1880. The power of movement in plants. London: John Murray.
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. Crown 8vo. 10s. 6d. FACTS AND ARGUMENT FOR DARWIN. By FRITZ MULLER. Translated by W. S. DALLAS. Woodcuts. Post 8vo. 6s. DE COSSON (E. A.). The Cradle of the Blue Nile; a Journey through Abyssinia and Soudan, and a residence at the Court of King John of Ethiopia. Map and Illustrations. 2 vols. Post 8vo. 21s. DENNIS (GEORGE). The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria. A new Edition, revised, recording all the latest Discoveries. With 20 Plans and 150 Illustrations. 2 vols. 8vo. 42s. DENT (EMMA). Annals
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Wallace, A. R. 1880. Island life: or, the phenomena and causes of insular faunas and floras, including a revision and attempted solution of the problem of geological climates. London: Macmillan & Co.
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and west of Celebes, 423 of Celebes, 428 peculiar to Celebes, 429 of New Zealand, 447, 453 wingless, of New Zealand, 447 Blackburn, Mr. T., on the beetles of the Sandwich Islands, 305 Blakiston and Pryer on birds of Japan, 368 Blanchard, M. Emile, on flora of Madagascar, 411 Bland, Mr., on land-shells of Bermuda, 260 Blanford, Mr. W. T., on small effect of marine denudation, 218 Blocks, travelled and perched, 106 Blue magpies, range of, 15 Borneo, geology of, 350 mammalia of, 351 birds of, 352
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and west of Celebes, 423 of Celebes, 428 peculiar to Celebes, 429 of New Zealand, 447, 453 wingless, of New Zealand, 447 Blackburn, Mr. T., on the beetles of the Sandwich Islands, 305 Blakiston and Pryer on birds of Japan, 368 Blanchard, M. Emile, on flora of Madagascar, 411 Bland, Mr., on land-shells of Bermuda, 260 Blanford, Mr. W. T., on small effect of marine denudation, 218 Blocks, travelled and perched, 106 Blue magpies, range of, 15 Borneo, geology of, 350 mammalia of, 351 birds of, 352
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Brunton, Thomas Lauder. 1880. Indigestion as a cause of nervous depression. The Practitioner: A Journal of Therapeutics and Public Health, 25 (Oct. and Nov.) [Copy not found, CCD29:549. Identified in F3701 ]
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Periodical contribution:
Darwin, C. R. 1880. The sexual colours of certain butterflies. Nature. A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science 21 (8 January): 237.
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marks of pure white, and they present an elegant appearance; but when viewed in front, in which position, as Dr. Schulte remarks, the male would be seen by the female when approaching her, the white marks are surrounded by a halo of beautiful blue. Mr. Butler,2 also showed me in the British Museum an analogous and more striking case in the genus Apatura, in which the sexes likewise differ in colour, and in the males the most magnificent green and blue tints are visible only to a person standing in
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CUL-DAR205.2.210
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Mr Henry Forbes in a letter to Mr Moresby says that Herons at Keeling Isd
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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [210] Mr Henry Forbes in a letter (March 19th 1880) to Mr Moresby says that Herons at Keeling Isld build in a tree with hooked seeds, that the birds feathers get coated with the seeds to such a degree that the proprietor of this isld says they sometimes die.— Birds— hooked seeds [in blue crayon:] Distribution of Seed
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CUL-DAR65.8
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CUL-DAR226.1.228
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Bei Charles Darwin `Frankfurter Zeitung': 1-2 [base of 8 cols] (Recollection of a visit to Down House)
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a pair of such expressive, sparkling blue eyes that we immediately felt drawn to him, and realised the great injustice people do Charles Darwin. The very prominent, snow-white eyebrows are the most striking feature of his face. His hair has for the most part fallen victim to his age. In his appearance and in his pleasant, affable behaviour and his movements he is completely the English country gentleman, and hardly anything would reveal his profession. His wife and daughter assisted him in the
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Periodical contribution:
Darwin, C. R. 1880. [Words attributed to Darwin]. In E. von Hesse-Wartegg, Bei Charles Darwin. Frankfurter Zeitung und Handelsblatt (30 July): Feuilleton.
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seventy-one years, as by uninterrupted work, with a noble countenance framed by a white beard, and a pair of such expressive, sparkling blue eyes that we immediately felt drawn to him, and realised the great injustice people do Charles Darwin. The very prominent, snow-white eyebrows are the most striking feature of his face. His hair has for the most part fallen victim to his age. In his appearance and in his pleasant, affable behaviour and his movements he is completely the English country gentleman
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CUL-DAR65.118
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1880.10.20
Gizzard of Worms / I found to day embedded in castings in sand
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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online 118 Gizzard of Worms Oct 20th 1880 — I found to day embedded in castings in sand Pot I 2 of the Black glass — beads (with inside packed with sand) a fragment of blue glass — This proves that worms both hard objects — incredible, considering proved powers of taste, that they mistook them for food. These beads show no signs of abrasion. (N.B. In Ch IV I have discussed pretty fully about the sucking of stones) I have only just alluded to stones in
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CUL-DAR64.1.54
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1880.10.23
Coloured lights / Before previous day & night — do not come out if Lamp
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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online 54 Oct 23d 80 Coloured lights Before previous day night — do not come out if Lamp kept near. I tried on one worm, blue red lights, I perceive no difference, but this worm was not very sensitive. Some nights ago I tried green light worm long remained out of holes when thus illuminated. I may say their sensitiveness depend on intensity of light — red light not affected- single small candle generally withstand for 5 to 15 minutes, but occasionally dashed
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CUL-DAR65.27-28
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1880.11.04--1880.11.05
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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online 27 Nov 4 1880 Instincts Lining Burrows large Pot I all with fine sand — large worms put in This day turned pot I upside down dissolved the sand — in 2 castings at mouth, 3 of the black glass beads in each no signs of attrition. Very many black beads 2 bits of blue glass in all parts of sand, near walls of burrows ie in castings — The burrows lined with castings, but the lining differ only in the red colour of the sand (ie the oxide of iron) having
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CUL-DAR64.1.73
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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online 73 Nov 27 80 [in margin:] Digestion Celery leaf dragged into hole quite moist apparently very lately moistened by worms slightly, but distinctly alkaline with best neutral litmus paper Nov 30 Celery leaf again wettish turn litmus paper blue Celery preferred to all other leaves including cabbage — Ivy, Lime, ampelopis Dec 2d preferred the parsnip — lime ampelopis cabbage Dec 2d Celery (fresh spec) in both pots cabbage in one pot wet distinctly alkaline
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be influenced by being told that a considerable body num ber of scientific men can, which others cannot reconcile the results [illeg] by science with revealed word, or or natural even with natural what is generally [illeg] natural religion, whilst others cannot do so. I beg leave to remain I = Conference on Religion) To W. R. Brown[e] 1880.12.22 [In blue crayon, not Darwin's hand:] to W Brown 1880 [33v
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1881 All early part of year Worm-Book.1 published Oct 10th - 2000 copies sold immediately 5000 printed by December corrected a new Edit. November on the action of C. of ammonia on Chlorophyll2 on roots of Euphorbia. other Plants 1 Earthworms. 2 Darwin 1882. published...immediately] in blue ink. November...Euphorbia.] in blue ink. [60] [1881
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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online (9 Absorption by roots Mercurialis perennis — Left in C. of A. (4 to 1000) for 26°— no aggregation visible externally — In the young white roots cells full of hyaline starch granules, coloured beautifully blue by sta iodide. Near tip of roots orange no blu
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(a) I think some little of the dine granular matter is starch; but I am not sure, as it was difficult to feel sure about the blue colour with such extremely minute particles (1
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1880 March 4th - 8th Erasmus April 8 - 13 Abinger, Horace Ida May 25 to June 8 Southampton. Aug 14th to Cambridge, 19th Erasmus, 21st Home Oct 28 to Nov. 2nd Henrietta's House Nov. 8th Eliz. Wedgwood died. Dec. 7 Erasmus. 11th Leith Hill Place. 15th Home. Aug 14th...21st Home] in blue ink. Nov. 8th Eliz. Wedgwood died.] in pencil. Dec. 7...Home. ] in blue ink. [59v] [1881
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Dionæa I believe, of a Chlo: grain: In another slice similar blue spheres; but in one (no 2) near margin of leaf, where must aggregated masses were all green green, there were no blue spheres. Slice (2) near margin, full of most curious shaped green aggregated masses, like those in Drosera figured by Frank; some of these united by threads— In many of these elongated, oddly shaped masses smaller spheres were embedded— Not one gr. of chlorophyll Examined after soaking in alcohol. Slice (3) like
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September 25th. Henrietta Emma. D.1 born. 1843 July 12th My Josiah Wedgwood died. Sixteen months about Volcanic Isls Book October 18th to 29th at Shrewsbury. 1 Henrietta Emma Darwin (1843-1929). 1843 July 12th. My Josiah Wedgwood died. ] blue ink. [23v] [1845
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1880 Circumnutating movements All Spring finishing M.S. of Power of Movement in Plants 1 then Proof Sheets Began in Autumn on Worms. Nov. 6th 1500 copies of Power of Movement sold at Murray's Sale 1 Movement in plants. All Spring...Murray's Sale] in blue ink. [59] [1880
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starch for they were coloured by iodine bright blue had quite defined outline. Some of the spheres were also became blue, the same cells containing some spheres blue some yellow in all other respects identical; I attribute the former or blue ones in infinitely minute particles of starch disseminated in the agg: matter. The larger spheres after iodine were a bright orange. In one case round a particle I saw a ghost of a spherical rounded mass; the last remnant (
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blue in roots — case like that of stolons young shoots of Mercurialis perennis; but the blue in latter case also appears in stump projecting above plain water. Butter-cup in sol. of 4 to 1000 for 21°— near tips brown matter minute hyaline spheres in some exterior cells. — no regular alternation of granular matter
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Oct 12' From what I have just seen with leaf of Tropæolum, I am inclined to suppose that many of the spheres in Dionæa were merely rounded grains of starch. At least those are such grain in Tropæolum. By squashing the blue bal spheres in dionæa, this colour seemed to me to consist of excessively fine particles chiefly coating them. — Certainly no starch grains in the oddly aggregated green matter, in the thinner slices.— (6) (
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joyful years, 2014. 7 John Maurice Herbert (1808-1882), barrister and judge. 8 Thomas Butler (1806-1886), son of Samuel Butler Head Master of Shrewsbury School. 9 George Ash Butterton (1805-1891), clergyman and headmaster. 1827 In Spring ... Uncle Jo] added in blue ink. [clipping pasted on 6
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Darwin, C. R. 1881. The formation of vegetable mould, through the action of worms, with observations on their habits. London: John Murray.
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should be caused. When under these circumstances worms were illuminated by a bull's-eye lantern having slides of dark red and blue glass, which intercepted so much light that they could be seen only with some difficulty, they were not at all affected by this amount of light, however long they were exposed to it. The light, as far as I could judge, was brighter than that from the full moon. Its colour apparently made no difference in the result. When they were * For instance, Mr. Bridgman and Mr
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should be caused. When under these circumstances worms were illuminated by a bull's-eye lantern having slides of dark red and blue glass, which intercepted so much light that they could be seen only with some difficulty, they were not at all affected by this amount of light, however long they were exposed to it. The light, as far as I could judge, was brighter than that from the full moon. Its colour apparently made no difference in the result. When they were * For instance, Mr. Bridgman and Mr
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Anon. 1881. [Review of Earthworms] Apotheosis of the worm. Evening Star (Washington), (17 December): 6.
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. It will not do hereafter to despise the worm, for, as a London paper well says, It from this time forth will wear the blue ribbon of science
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, has fallen into some errors, which, in the case of a man of his celebrated accuracy, are not a little remarkable. Apparently, Blue-books are less in this great philosopher's line of study than pigeons or carnivorous plants. Mr. Darwin says that he took an active part in trying to get an Act passed such as would have removed all just cause of complaint (on the subject of Vivisection), and at the same time have left physiologists free to pursue their researches, a Bill very different from that
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deeply grateful to such distinguished men as the late Sir Charles Bell, and others still living, who have confessed their experiments to have been unnecessary, cruel, and without results. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, SHAFTESBURY. Grosvenor Square, April 18. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.' Sir,—Mr. Darwin in a letter which you publish to-day, has fallen into some errors, which, in the case of a man of his celebrated accuracy, are not a little remarkable. Apparently, Blue Books are less in this great
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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online (3 1881 Phyllanthus consanguineus July 10 — waved 3 le branches with leaves (looked like compound leaves) in water 84°-85° for 4'. but leaves cohered for a time, the bloom was not well removed, — pinned. open 7 leaves on one side (with Blue line on cork) 7 on opposite side — on one set, (as well as some other free leaves) placed drops of water at 9˚ 30; a.m.; but drops did not cohere well. — (12˚ brushed 2 or 3 leaves with water at 90° as drops wd not
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matter chiefly in the upper lower epidermis— The central cells in disc only occasionally with aggregated masses. — When iodine was added to the slide had penetrated into the central cells the elliptical some rounded grains became beautifully blue, the green aggregated spheres yellow, which agrees with this being protoplasm. — It is clear that in immense starch grains are left quite bare. It is certain that in Drosera the epidermis cells contain grains of chlorophyll. (Aug 22d. A leaf had been
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1881 Drosera Sept. 29th Leaf full-grown fine red, lately from common in sol 7 to 1000 at 12˚ 20' 27th, examined sliced 3 leaves — very numerous elliptical spherical Ch. grain, which become blue with iodide— also innumerable minute spheres, far smaller than the ordinary Ch. grains) which became orange with the iodide. In very many cells compact spherical aggregations of orange-brown matter, but no translucent ordinary aggregated spheres, except within tentacles— Case very odd is too late in
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1881 Geranium In some cells only fine granular matte. Therefore I conclude that Ch. grain break up by action of C. of amm this matter together with the cell-sap. aggregate first into small spheres, which run together to form the large spheres. (In another leaf kept same time in C. of amm. viz for 12˚ on the 31st to 11˚ on Oct— 2d. there was no aggregation plenty of Ch. grains. After Acetic A. had been added, the gr. disappeared, only the minutest particles were left, which were coloured blue
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impression that these grains were breaking up into the minute irregular grains;— Therefore I F. thought that they might be starch. Therefore I added iodine of Pot, but the grain did not blue, but they all rapidly disappeared as single grain became confluent into irregular amorphous masses perhaps in part dissolved. Now F. found yesterday that the aggregated spheres were dissolved not when iodine was added after the slice had been cleaned by alcohol. Therefore I believe that the aggregation of these
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in 1/2 hour on green matter or granular matter. At 11˚ some filaments irrigated with sol of 7 to 1000 instantly granules appeared in 3 young cells, which were as transparent as glass. By 1˚ 45' some green spheres were formed one of spiral bands contracted. At 1˚ 50' added acetic A. then iodide (which I believe removed all the granular matter?!!!) Some of the green masses become a little blue in centres but not so the hyaline spheres.— (
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the spheres or irregular aggregated masses.— such grains of Chlr: could have contained no starch, the bright orange spheres with bright blue grains of starch in some cell looked very pretty [7
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epidermis. In the case of both the orange pale spheres in epidermis, there were many cells with no ch. grains — Iodide of Pot + Iodine irrigated one of slices. The pale spheres now become orange the cuticle also orange. In many cases there were blue grains in some cells or coating the orange spheres aggregated masses— Much starch near vascular bundles— After Iodine it was still more clear that in many of green epidermic cells, (almost all contain when fresh Ch. grains) there were now no Ch. grains, as
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Sarracenia a moderately thick root — In thin rootlets, the 2 exterior rows of cells with orange spheres (it is clear that the originally brown masses turn orange) — In the large parenchyma cells many starch grains, which turned blue with iodine — round in the most of the vascular bundle many oval spherical orange masses.— In epidermis of thicker roots the cells filled with granular orange matter, instead of the aggregated oval spherical masses
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several cells differ. (The transverse slices of fresh roots from ammon examined yesterday showing no aggregation were well irrigated with 7 to 1000 left for 22°, out of 5 slices only 2 showed any coloured cells these were blue instead of green. I could distinguish in only some of them a little very fine granular matter, these few coloured cells occurred only
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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [77] Decr 12th Strawberry. [line in pencil illeg] Osmic A. completely blackens. In C. of A 4 to 1000 for 24° The blue [illeg] Roots from a stolon was left for, they were — great aggregation roots rendered almost opake. — Near all the tips the cells all were mostly full of brown granular matter — higher up I think some alternation; but granular matter not in epidermic cells, but in layers beneath. — In fresh root very transparent white only starch
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F. made yesterday slices of other fresh roots, (not left in water, nor were those just described) no agg. visible, they were irrigated with 7 to 1000 for 23° now (25th) they show no agg. in epidermis, nor any blue cells — So that I may now feel certain that the blue cells do not exist before the application of the C. of Amm
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Primrose Dec. 23d Irrigation during 65' with 7 to 1000 produced no marked effect. — After 22° in the sol. some dark blue central cells with æ I looked at the former root which had now been nearly 48° in sol. in one roots mo many isolated cells with dark blue globular masses. I irrigated the long transverse slices examined yesterday not those grown near leaf-root with the iodine — (but before the iodine several of the agg mass in parenchyma endoderm were greenish) the agg. masses in the
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, more or less near the vascular bundle but in endoderm. These blue cells contain starch grains granular matter. This is the sole curious phenomenon in the roots of Primula acaulis. No in the thin roots, looking old, stuffed with starch grain, even in extremely thin sub-rootlets. these blue cells have appeared. In some of such rootlets, however, many of the parenchyma cells were filled with orange granular matter in those I cd see no starch æ 5
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Primrose a single cell in middle of parenchyma was gorged with coarse granular more or less confluent globules, which are oft generally hyaline colourless, but were formerly found to be of a rich blue — To day I found only a trace yet distinct of blueness one cell green another yellowish.— Again close round vascular bundle many elongated cells in single rows with hyaline more less confluent, rather coarse globules. F. thought starch. Dec. 23d examined without slicing roots kept in water for 48
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not caused by about 1° of irrigation. I am almost certain that the very minute grains in the blue cells are themselves blue
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The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online [46] Cœlebogyne ilicifolia (Euphorb?) — Roots immersed Fresh roots with no blue cells — innumerable oil-globules no starch — some hyaline globules — After immersion for 21° in sol. of 4 to 1000 — many separate cells in parenchyma close to vascular bundles of the thinnest moderately thick rootlets, coloured blue, more or less dark, sometimes greenish. — In the blue cells granular matter sometimes oil globules— S. Ether dissolved the oil, but did not
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mongrel piebald lot, or more probably the speedy and complete loss of the pale-blue tint; for the primordial slaty colour would be transmitted with prepotent force. Supposing, however, that some pale-blue males and slaty females were produced during each successive generation, and were always crossed together, then the slaty females would have, if I may use the expression, much blue blood in their veins, for their fathers, grandfathers, c., will all have been blue birds. Under these circumstances
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most beautiful species the head is bald, and of a rich cobalt blue, crossed by several lines of black velvety feathers. 74 Fig. 47. Paradisea Papuana (T. W. Wood). ———————————— in 'Annals and Mag. of Nat. Hist.' vol xiii. 1854, p. 157: see also Mr. Wallace's much fuller account in vol. xx. 1857, p. 412, and in his 'Malay Archipelago.' 74 Wallace, 'The Malay Archipelago,' vol. ii. 1869, p. 405. [page] 38
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spots, each of which consists of two or three black dots with a surrounding dark zone. But the chief ornament is a space parallel to the dark-blue shaft, which in outline forms a perfect second feather lying within the true feather. This inner part is coloured of a lighter chestnut, and is thickly dotted with minute Fig. 52. Side view of male Argus pheasant, whilst displaying before the female. Observed and sketched from nature by Mr. T. W. Wood. [page] 40
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Order, Neuroptera.—Little need here be said, except as to colour. In the Ephemeridæ the sexes often differ slightly in their obscure tints;49 but it is not probable that the males are thus rendered attractive to the females. The Libellulidæ, or dragon-flies, are ornamented with splendid green, blue, yellow, and vermilion metallic tints; and the sexes often differ. Thus, as Prof. Westwood remarks,50 the males of some of the Agrionidæ, are of a rich blue with black wings, whilst the females are
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be successfully carried out. The chief obstacle would be the early and complete loss of the pale-blue tint, from the necessity of reiterated crosses with the slaty female, the latter not having at first any latent tendency to produce pale-blue offspring. On the other hand, if one or two males were to vary ever so slightly in paleness, and the variations were from the first limited in their transmission to the male sex, the task of making a new breed of the desired kind would be easy, for such
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Darwin, C. R. 1882. The action of carbonate of ammonia on the roots of certain plants. [Read 16 March] Journal of the Linnean Society of London (Botany) 19: 239-261, 2 text figures.
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the formerly described case of Phyllanthus, and these resembled nascent root-hairs. Within one of these papillæ, granules surrounded by the shrunken utricle could be seen. In the parenchyma single cells were seen containing minute hyaline globules, which were colourless or pale or dark blue, or occasionally greenish or yellowish. Many of the endoderm-cells likewise contained more or less confluent hyaline globules; but these were colourless, and larger than those in the parenchyma. They resembled
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tissue! It was a always jour maigre at these feasts of reason. A refreshing episode amid these sad records of (probably hospital) suffering was my good luck in procuring (for 6d !) a splendid blue grey hound of the snowball breed designed as a handsome present for Squire — but just fresh cut down by the Ostler from a stagecoach where a carelss guard had suffered him to hang himself by jumping off unnoticed — but unlamented. Enter page 10a here at the anatomy school His arrival in a barrow was
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No.1 p.14 by his convivial air) at once offered him my hand, which he as readily accepted; but with a most ferocious grin of that blue red ribbed face, and a jerk that nearly dislocated my shoulder made me fairly stagger, this too cordial response taken the form of a prolonged tug instead of a momentary pluck, my poor arm wd have been past retrieving, I have entered this among many merciful escapes. Raz I looked blank at each other, he reddening with emotion, I (I am pretty sure) deadly pale
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in so striking a manner, as the above exotic genera. In Lycæna agestis both sexes have wings of a brown colour, bordered with small ocellated orange spots, and are thus alike. In L. œgon the wings of the males are of a fine blue, bordered with black, whilst those of the female are brown, with a similar border, closely resembling the wings of L. agestis. Lastly, in L. arion both sexes are of a blue colour and are very like, though in the female the edges of the wings are rather duskier, with the
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differently coloured in the several species, yet certain spots, marks, or stripes are retained by all. Analogous cases occur with the breeds of the pigeon, which usually retain the two wing-bars, though they may be coloured red, yellow, white, black, or blue, the rest of the plumage being of some wholly different tint. Here is a more curious case, in which certain marks are retained, though coloured in a manner almost exactly the opposite of what is natural; the aboriginal pigeon has a blue tail, with the
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early age from the females by shewing more pure white.46 The males of a forest-thrush and of a rock-thrush (Orocetes erythrogastra and Petrocincla cyanea) have much of their plumage of a fine blue, whilst the females are brown; and the nestling males of both species have their main wing and tail-feathers edged with blue, whilst those of the female are edged with brown.47 In the young blackbird the wing feathers assume their mature character and become black after the others; on the other hand
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Darwin, C. R. 1882. [Extracts from Darwin's draft chapter 10 of Natural selection]. In Romanes, G. J., Animal intelligence. London: Kegan Paul Trench & Co.
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association between the colour of A and the honey upon it, such that, when they again returned and found B in the place of A, they were guided by their memory of the colour rather than by their memory of the position. It was thus shown that the insects could distinguish green, red, yellow, and blue. These experiments also brought out the further fact that both bees and wasps exhibit a marked preference for some colours over others. Thus, in a series of black, white, yellow, orange, green, blue, and red
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Darwin, C. R. 1882. The action of carbonate of ammonia on the roots of certain plants. [Read 16 March] Journal of the Linnean Society of London (Botany) 19: 239-261, 2 text figures.
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pulcherrima, Manihot Glaziovi, Croton oblongifolium, and Hevea Spruciana were not affected. Nor were those of Mercurialis perennis, as far as the exterior cells are concerned; but here and there a single cell in the parenchyma became blue; but these cells were not carefully examined*. Judging from the cases presently to be given, they probably contained granules which had been precipitated by the ammonia solution. On the other hand, the roots of Phyllanthus compressus were conspicuously acted on
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afforded by the three genera of Australian bower-birds already mentioned. Their bowers (see fig. 46, p. 382), where the sexes congregate and play strange antics, are variously constructed, but what most concerns us is, that they are decorated by the several species in a different manner. The Satin bower-bird collects gaily-coloured articles, such as the blue tail-feathers of parrakeets, bleached bones and shells, which it sticks between the twigs, or arranges at the entrance. Mr. Gould found in
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, that these drive away all other coloured varieties, such as white, red, and yellow; and from another observer, that a female dun carrier could not, after repeated trials, be matched with a black male, but immediately paired with a dun. Again, Mr. Tegetmeier had a female blue turbit that obstinately refused to pair with two males of the same breed, which were successively shut up with her for weeks; but on being let out she would have immediately accepted the first blue dragon that offered. As
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former and recent times. But it deserves especial attention that brilliant colours have been transferred much more rarely than other tints. For instance, the male of the red-throated blue-breast (Cyanecula suecica) has a rich blue breast, including a sub-triangular red mark; now marks of nearly the same shape have been transferred to the female, but the central space is fulvous instead of red, and is surrounded by mottled instead of blue feathers. The Gallinaceæ offer many analogous cases; for
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