F1817    Book:     Barrett, Paul H., Gautrey, Peter J., Herbert, Sandra, Kohn, David, Smith, Sydney eds. 1987. Charles Darwin's notebooks, 1836-1844: Geology, transmutation of species, metaphysical enquiries. British Museum (Natural History); Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   PDF

that the cross would have adapted it to changing circumstances.— More probably during known changes climate became unfit for. subalpina, or some Northern species, being restricted species has been Made.— In the hybrid grouse between Black Cock Ptarmigan (probably subalpina.) former has blue breast, latter reddish, hybrid purple— be careful, See to hybrids between Pheasant Black Cock, other hybrids— The fact of Egyptian animals not having changed is good—' I scarcely hesitate to say that if

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TORN APART NOTEBOOK 105-112 Rhubarb, pollen very minute—not excessively abundant flowers not attractive, very small—stigma rather large rough— flowers common— many winged thrips, covered with pollen— «Thrips» about as large as bit of chopped horse hair with legs take flight— Yet we have crosses— I see Bees almost 106 every flower— Blue-bells— wild-raspberry—leeks— Flowers which thought very unattractive— Found Rhubarb blossom swarming with small Staphylinidae— Anapsis, Melegethes, Leptuse

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brothers sisters in Mankind.— The case of all blue eyed cats (Fox has seen repeated cases) being deaf curious case of corelation of imperfect structure.— 12e Fox says in «Lord» Exeter's Park «or in the Duke of Marlborough» there is a breed of white-tailed squirrels, which form a marked wild variety, doubtful whether all are white. Fox says the Half Muscovy Fox says a settler near Swan river, lost his on two cows entirely, changed his residence a great many miles.— yet one day th a cow walked in, then

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all other species in being of a slate-blue colour, with two black bars on the wings, and with the croup (or loins) white.' [page break

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The Greyhound, was in length (measured same way) 47 V2— in heigt 30 inches Examine Keel of Common Wild Duck— Black Duck Penguin 15 Henslow c Has not H. raised races of white Blue Linum— did parent plants grow near each other.— ? Cannot remember at all. Any cases of plants, which will not produce seed in this country— where cause not apparent— Any where pollen is not produced or small in quantity — Any unproductive, where germen does not swell, although there be pollen.— or FEW. or bad seeds

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so framed that he constantly compared his impressions, wished he had done so so for his interest, found he disobeyed a wish which was part of his system, constant, for a wish which was only short might otherwise have been IFC What . . . [Private.]] grey ink. (Metaphysics . . . 1856] added pencil. Looked . . . 1873—] added blue crayon. 1 My Father says pea-hens do] added pencil. BirthHill...theyseek]addedpencil Cock fowl.] 'f' over't'. 1−1 Waterton 1833:212, '. . . in the wild state . . . the

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twelve feet below the surface, an irregular stratum of fallen trees, of the kind called courida, common on the coast, existed in a semi-carbonized state; but Major Staples discovered, at fifty feet below the surface, another immense fallen forest of the same kind of wood, twelve feet thick; the superstratum being blue alluvium, and the substratum reddish ochre, diminishing in shades to yellow, light straw, and again merging into slate-coloured clay. The remainder, to a depth of one hundred and

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Notebook also contains this reference. 111-2 Lyell 1835a:5, 'Portions of the Mytilus edulis also occur [near Stockholm]; and there has evidently been a great accumulation of this shell in the stratum, but it is almost entirely decomposed, and is only recognized by the violet colour which it has imparted to the whole mass.' P. 7, 'Here [at Blabacken, or blue hills near Stockholm] the violet colour of the decomposed Mytilus edulis is so remarkable as to have given a name to the hill.' Also GSA-.13

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communication. Evidently        Comix. Hooded Crow.—Head, throat, wings, and tail Darwin or Henslow showed his Galapagos specimens to      black, with blue and green reflections. Neck and the rest Don. These were eventually described by J. D. Hooker        of the body smoke-grey. Tail rounded.' (1847a, 1847b). See JR 1845, chap. 17 in which Darwin      102-2 Jenyns 1835:146 treats C. corone and C. comix as uses Hooker's information extensively. See also E104 for a separate species and says the

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page crossed blue crayon. 58−1 Hensleigh Wedgwood: (1803−1891), son of Bessy Josiah Wedgwood II. 58−2 See also Erasmus Darwin 1794, 1:146, '. . .children long before they can speak, or understand the language of their parents, may be frightened by an angry countenance, or soothed by smiles and blandishments.' 59−1 Walter Scott, 1815, 3:26, 'It is even so with me while I gaze upon that ruin; nor can I divest myself of the idea, that these massive towers and that dark gateway . . . is not entirely

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which all but one partly excised leaf have been recovered. Entries in the notebook are in ink, pencil, and blue crayon. The grey ink material runs from the inside front cover to an 'Octob— 19th' entry half-way down page 18. The opening entry on the first page of the notebook is dated 'October 2d. 1838'; the bulk of the notebook was completed by mid-1839 (page 97 is dated 20 July), with later entries being made sporadically. The last dated entry in the body of the text is 28 April 1840 on page 121

F1827    Periodical contribution:     Porter, D.M. 1987. Darwin's notes on Beagle plants. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series. vol. 14(2): 145-233.   Text   Image   PDF

specific gravity. it is collected from under water, is made into balls (as J Button [Jemmy Button, a native of Tierra del Fuego] expresses it. 'all the same Ostrichs egg') burnt: did not effervesce with acids. with bit of Cobalt. gave a promenent [page] 149 1833 Tierra del Fuego ['Fuegian Colors' in margin] blue. I suppose therefore it nearly pure alumine. It occurs in the Slate Mountains. I imagine from the decomposition of the beds of Feldspathic rock. The black I have not obtained: The black, is

F1830    Periodical contribution:     Smith, K.G.V. 1987. Darwin's insects: Charles Darwin's entomological notes, with an introduction and comments by Kenneth G. V. Smith. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series. vol. 14(1): 1-143.   Text   Image   PDF

amongst the soft yellow balls which are excrescences; or rather fungi growing on the Fagus antarcticus, and which are eaten by the Fuegians. COLEOPTERA, Carabidae: Abropus splendidus Waterhouse, G. R. (1842a: genus 134, species 135). (=Habropus carnifex F.), one in the BM (1863 44) with blue handwritten labels. See also entries 906 and 1839. See Fig. 15. The fungus was described by the Revd J. M. Berkeley (1842b: 37) as Cyttaria darwinii and it is illustrated and discussed at some length in the

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: seven in the BM (1885 119), Chiloe, numbered 2368 (1), 2369 (2) and 2371 (4). Passandridae: Catogenus decoratus Newman (1839: 303) may refer here, one in BM (63.44) labelled 'Type' and on blue paper 'South of Chile, C. Darwin'. Described from Chiloe 'in the cabinet of Mr Melly'. Silphidae: Micragyrtes ocelligerus Champion (1918b: 46, gen. et sp.), two in the BM numbered 2369. Hydnobius forticornis Champion (1918b: 47), one in the BM numbered 2369. Staphylinidae: Polylobus darwini Bernhauer

F1830    Periodical contribution:     Smith, K.G.V. 1987. Darwin's insects: Charles Darwin's entomological notes, with an introduction and comments by Kenneth G. V. Smith. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series. vol. 14(1): 1-143.   Text   Image   PDF

BM (1863 44) (=Campalita chlorostictum Dejean spp. helenae), see Wollaston, 1877, Basilewsky, 1972. Elateridae: Anchastus atlanticus Cand z. Three in BM (1871.2, Coleoptera accession no.) 'St Helena', with small blue paper triangle. Scydmaenidae: Anthicus wollastoni (Waterhouse, F. H., 1879: 532), Champion (1895: 75) established that this is not an Anthicid but a Scydmaenid, one in the BM (1879 34) (=Euconnus). Four previously described Wollaston (1877) species of Coleoptera were also

F1827    Periodical contribution:     Porter, D.M. 1987. Darwin's notes on Beagle plants. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series. vol. 14(2): 145-233.   Text   Image   PDF

Every one has heard of the dislocoured [i.e., discoloured] streaks of water in the Equatorial regions. One I examined was owing to the presence of such minute Oscillaria that in each square inch of surface there must have been at least one hundred thousand present. After this I had better be silent. for you will think me a Baron Munchausen amongst Naturalists. From his description, this is certainly Oscillatoria erythraea (Ehrenberg) K tzing (Oscillatoriaceae), a blue-green alga (Cyanophyta

F1830    Periodical contribution:     Smith, K.G.V. 1987. Darwin's insects: Charles Darwin's entomological notes, with an introduction and comments by Kenneth G. V. Smith. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Historical Series. vol. 14(1): 1-143.   Text   Image   PDF

Darwin's MS. Register in Brit. Mus. (Insect Dept.), and the data have been copied (1.xi.1922) from that register and attached to the specimens. The species under which such specimens stand are marked with an asterisk on the preceding page [there are numbers in similar large type on certain of Darwin's named Dytiscidae in Brit. Mus.]. Most of the numbers used are, however, in smaller type, on greenish-blue paper, with a printed line above and to one side of them. Of these there is at present no

F1838    Periodical contribution:     Chancellor, Gordon, Angelo diMauro, Ray Ingle, Gillian King. 1988. Charles Darwin's Beagle Collections in the Oxford University Museum. Archives of Natural History. 15 (2): 197-231.   Text   Image   PDF

end of Beagle Channel. Roots of Fucus. G. Back Hyacinth brownish red with oblong. marks spots of gem-like ultra-marine blue . one white transverse mark longitudinal one on tail; 1st great legs. same colour as body but penultimate limb centre part white edged with do blue . antipenultimate ringed with white. do blue do red . other legs with basal limbs faintly ringed. but ultimate limbs orange. Sides with oblique stripes reddish brown . Animal most beautiful. [page] 21

F1925    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1988. Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

Our first stage was very interesting,2 the day was powerfully hot as we passed through the woods, every thing was still, excepting the large brilliant |136| butterflies, which lazily fluttered about. The view seen when crossing the hills behind Praia Grande is most sublime picturesque. The colours were intense the prevailing tint a dark blue, the sky calm waters of the bay vied with each other in splendor. After passing through some cultivated country we entered a Forest, which in the grandeur

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delightful; after Chiloe T. del Fuego we felt the climate quite delicious; the sky so clear blue, the air so dry the sun so bright, that all nature seemed sparkling with life. The view from the Anchorage is very pretty; the town is built on the very foot of [a] range of hills, which are 1600 feet high, tolerably steep; the surface is worn into numberless little ravines, which exposes a singularly bright red soil between patches of light green grass low shrubs. It is perhaps for this reason the

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Emu ferry, which is thirty-five miles from Sydney |684| near the ascent of the Blue Mountains. This line of road is the most frequented has longest been inhabited of any in the Colony. The whole land is enclosed with high railings, for the farmers have not been able to rear hedges. There are many substantial houses good cottages scattered about; but although considerable pieces of the land are under cultivation, the greater part yet remains as when first discovered. Making allowances for the

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coast, but from the sandy hillocks has a dreary uninteresting appearance. To day the water from its calmness reddish muddy colour looked like that of a river: of course however, the Southern bank is far beyond the reach of vision. The fresher discoloured water from its less specific gravity floats on the surface of the salt. this was curiously shown by the wake of the vessel, where a line of blue might be seen mingling in little eddies with the adjoining fluid. in this case instead of stirring up

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over the mountains, nearly to their base; the glimpses which we had caught through the dusky mass were highly interesting; jagged points, cones of snow, blue glaciers, strong outlines marked on a lurid sky, were seen at different distances heights. In the midst of such scenery, we anchored at C. Turn, close to Mount Saimiento, which was then hidden in the clouds. At the base of the lofty almost perpendicular sides of our little cove there was one deserted wigwam, and it alone reminded us that man

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rhinoceros on the wide plain, or the hippopotamus wallowing in the mud of some African river. Amongst the other most remarkable spectacles, which we have beheld, may be ranked, the stars of the Southern hemisphere, the water-spout the glacier leading its blue stream of ice in a bold precipice overhanging the sea a lagoon island, raised by the coral forming animalcule an active volcano the overwhelming effects of a violent earthquake. These latter phenomena perhaps possess for me a higher

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, as an inland lake does from a little pool. It is not only the darkness of the blue, but the brilliancy of its tint when contrasted with the white curling tip that gives such a novel beauty to the scene. I have seen paintings that give a faithful idea of it. |43| 31st In the morning very uncomfortable; got up about noon enjoyed some few moments of comparative ease. A shoal of porpoises dashing round the vessel a stormy petrel skimming over the waves were the first objects of interest I have

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interest. I am frequently in the position of the ass between two bundles of hay. so many beautiful animals do I generally bring home with me. In the morning a few drops of rain fell. 31st This morning the view was very fine. the air being singularly clear. the mountains were projected against dark blue or black clouds. Judging from their appearances I should have thought the air was saturated with moisture. The Hygrometer proved the contrary, the diff: between Temp Dew point being 29.6: this is

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view is one of the finest in the Brazils. But their beauties are as nothing compared to the Vegetation; I believe from what I have seen Humboldts glorious descriptions are will for ever be unparalleled: but even he with his dark blue skies the rare union of poetry with science which he so strongly displays when writing on tropical scenery, with all this falls far short of the truth. The delight one experiences in such times bewilders the mind. if the eye attempts to follow the flight of a

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in consequence the comparative state of dryness of the road has been today very remarkable. After dinner I walked to the Bay had a good view of the Organ mountains; I was much struck by the justness of one of Humboldts observations, that hills in a Tropical country seen from a distance are of a uniform blue tint, but that contrary to what generally is the case the outline is defined with the clearest edge. Few things give me so much pleasure as reading the Personal Narrative; I know not the

F1925    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1988. Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

26th We entered the bay about 9 oclock: just as we were coming to an anchor, signals were made from the Druid, a frigate lying here; which (to our utter astonishment amusement) ordered us to Clear for action shortly afterward Prepare to cover our boats . We set sail again the latter part of order was shortly explained by the arriving of 6 boats heavily armed with Carronades containing about 40 marines, all ready for fighting, more than 100 blue-jackets. Captain Hamilton came on board informed

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entered the Northern arm. The scenery becomes very grand, the mountains on the right are very lofty covered with a white mantle of perpetual snow: from the melting of this numbers of cascades poured their waters through the woods into the channel. In many places magnificent glaciers extended from the mountains to the waters edge. I cannot imagine anything more beautiful than the beryl blue of these glaciers, especially when contrasted by the snow: the occurrence of glaciers reaching to the waters

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blue beads. Nothing could be more interesting than some of the family groups. [page] 170 PATAGONES TO B. AYRES AUGUST 183

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; it is a fine river blue water running stream; it is nearly as large as its namesake to the South. 24th Went with my host to the Sierra del Pedro Flaco about 20 miles up the R. Negro: the greater part of the ride was through long grass up to the horses belly. There are few Estancias leagues of camp without a head of cattle. The country left to nature as it now is would easily produce 5 or 6 times the number of cattle. Yet the annual exportation of hides from M. Video is 300 thousand; the home

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rate of from four to six knots an hour. The water is of a fine blue color with a slight milky tinge, but is not so transparent as would be expected; it flows over a bed of pebbles, such as forms the beach surrounding plain. 1 The valley is in a very direct line to the westward, in which the river has [a] winding course, but it varies from five to 10 miles in width, being bounded by perfectly horizontal plains of 3 to 500 feet elevation. 1 Followed by the deleted words; 'excepting where there are

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elevated into dry land only in a very recent period. The soil resulting from the decomposition of these rocks is very fertile; but agriculture is as yet in its rudest forms; to this the structure of the mills boats their method of spinning quite correspond. The inhabitants, judging from their complexions low stature, have s of Fuegian or Boat Indian blood in their veins; they are all dressed in coarse strong woollen garments, which each family makes for themselves dyes with Indigo of a dark blue

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in these regions: she lays out no false hopes; a heavy NW gale with steady rain bespeaks the rising year. Thank God we shall not here see the end of it; but rather in the Pacific, where |510| a blue sky does tell one there is a heaven, a something beyond the Clouds, above our heads. 4th The NW winds continued to prevail we only managed to cross a sort of great bay anchored in an excellent harbor. This is the place where the Anna Pink, one of Lord Ansons squadron, found refuge during the

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which is 1/1000th of an inch, having several envelopes. The snow was only tinged where crushed by the mules hoofs where the thaw had been rapid. When we reached the crest looked backwards, a glorious view was presented. The atmosphere so resplendently clear, the sky an intense blue, the profound valleys, the wild broken forms, the heaps of ruins piled up during the lapse of ages, the bright colored rocks, contrasted with the quiet mountains of Snow, together produced a scene I never could have

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the evening at the house of the Governador ; the Signora was a Limerian affected blue-stockingism superiority over her neighbours. Yet this learned lady never could have seen a Map. Mr Hardy told me that one day a coloured Atlas was lying on a Pianoforte this lady seeing it exclaimed, Esta es contradanca . This is a country dance! que bonita how pretty! On the other hand, the good people at Valdivia hearing so much about our making Charts thought everything a map. As they mistook a Sextant

F1925    Book:     Keynes, Richard Darwin ed. 1988. Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.   Text   Image   PDF

now travelling steadily onwards at the rate of 150 or 160 miles a day. The trade wind night day incessantly blows. With studding sails set on each side we pleasantly cross the blue ocean. Having now left the gloomy region which extends far from the coast of S. America, daily the sun shines brightly in the cloudless sky. 9th This day we saw the first Island which can be truly said to belong to Polynesia. 1 It is called Dog or Doubtful lsd. The latter name expressing all which was known about it. As

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from Sydney, fifteen beds could be made up for travellers. 18th Very early in the morning I walked about three miles to see Govett's Leap; a view of a similar, but even perhaps more stupendous character than that of the Weatherboard. So early in the day the gulf was filled with a thin blue haze, which, although destroying the general effect, added to the apparent depth of the forest below, from the country on which we stood. Mr Martens who was formerly in the Beagle now resides in Sydney, has made

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of the lagoon, resting in its |714| greater part on white sand, is when illuminated by a vertical sun of a most vivid green. This brilliant expanse, which is several miles wide, is on all sides divided either from the dark heaving water of the ocean by a line of breakers, or from the blue vault of Heaven by the strip of land, crowned at an equal height by the tops of the Cocoa nut trees. As in the sky here there a white cloud affords a pleasing contrast, so in the lagoon dark bands of living

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, and during a few days a jet of steam issued from a bold precipice overhanging the sea, not far from the town of Angra. I enjoyed my day's ride, though I did not see much worth seeing: it was pleasant to meet such a number of fine peasantry; I do not recollect ever having beheld a set of handsomer young men, with more good humoured pleasant expressions.1 The men and boys are all dressed in a plain jacket trowsers, without shoes or stockings; their heads are barely covered by a little blue cloth

F3275    Book:     Gregorio, Mario A. -Di, ed. 1990. Charles Darwin's marginalia, vol. 1. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio, with the assistance of N.W. Gill. New York; London: Garland.   Text   Image   PDF

text t whole margin p some pages uncut nondescript brown ink pale ink dark ink ˂ ˃ transcribers' editorial brackets □ß smooth mid-blue paper 09Î rough grey-blue/mottled paper » pencil brown or reddish pencil blue or violet pencil CD's editorial markings on text of book comment cut or damaged e.g. in rebinding of book comment damaged because page ripped away u - whole line/sentence underlined more or less all of passage underlined count lines from bottom of page calculations in margin • word(s

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implying different bouts of attention. We have seen fit to distinguish three broad types: smooth blue paper; rougher yellow-mottled grey-blue paper; and the rest (mainly nondescript white or greyish paper). We report the material from these various locations in the following order: notes and/or slips inside the front cover; notes and/or slips inside the back cover; slips attached anywhere else in the body of the book; marginal marks and comments in the body of the book. [page] x

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less good species being cultivated from seed 46 3m, 4-6m, 7u/wx 50 8u*/8-13w Kept true for 6 generations, but Steudel makes vaj\ of L Galiicum 16m*, 18m*, 16-18m/16-19w From this seed gave p. magna (Steudel makes var of p. magna- 66 4~8m/w In Veronica colours blue or red some interchangeable 13w changed its colour 17-18w seedlings changed colour 25-26u±/25-30w Red vars. of these * blue Angallis kept true for 10 generations but may be thought true species; but he seems to think other differences

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^ 64 2u jowlter\eye /l-8mlw Rollers? 33-34x ^, 39-42m 65 l-3m, 5-12m/8-9Qi , 15-17x^, 29-33m/31u bald I beard , 40-44m 66 4-9m 67 2-2m 68 35-38m 70 5u turned I duck , lu bending \swan , 8-llm/9u his I bird , 29-30m 71 3-6m/4-5u three I long , 5-7m, 22-27m\23u Runts I Runt /27u have\half , 41-43m, 45-46m 72 22« and\more , 12-14m, 23-26m 73 3u blues /wt probably bars 2-2m, 5-7m, 40u sometimes blue 74 9u six\feathers , 20u there I blue , 21-23m 75 8-24m, 29-30m, 33-34m 76 2-Am 77 19-21m, 22-24m, 30

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genera) variable are opposed to periods of variability 54 wt/l-3w i.e. without selection or any new tendency to variation, supposing the new arriver to be already variable- l-8m, 32-34m, wb says very difficult to prove what are purely morphological characters 55 26-28m, 27-32m, wb cases like Kallima 56 31m 58 wt/l-9w asserts the dark colour of wings of female Blue Butterflies is certainly a protection 2-9m, 9z, 9-10u++, Urn, ll-12m, ll-24w I think because his wings have been coloured blue the

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313 savages singing when excited 253 Beauty, 521-522 Blackness 258 intelligence of Negros 306 sexual selection man ♦ 310 Language 313 singing 394 Blue eyes in negress, uncanny 364 M. of N. Your map not alluded to 153 26-29m 253 2-7m, ll-14m, 18-22m 258 20-26m 306 17-23m/19-20w like male Birds 307 29-* 308 ll-14m, 15-16m, 19u women fanciers I18-24w American Men have as long hair as women 310 18-22m 312 ll-15m/?, 26-29m 313 ll-12m/llu the , 16-20m 394 2- 4m, 10-12m 520 6-10m, 16-19m, 29-32m/ 31u

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- Hybrids of Siskin Goldfinch breed inter se, but at first small eggs weak young vii 4~8mjw Read ix Canarienvogel .m/w Read xi Zweyter Anhang .m* xii 6-9m 3 tteu paart I bleiben /w pairs with tame - 4 2u zahnen\zu 13 Ü9-5m/w House Pigeon with black Bars common in Germany 14 lu Feldtauben /wt The field Pigeon great vary in rump l-6m/w For those with blue rumps bring grey, with white reverse 15 ÏÏ5m/u bey \ dunkler 16 15-22w with Bars white Rump 1/2 wild in towers c, c- 17 ÏÏ2-2m 18 8~15w Field Pigeons

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810 wb 100 = 180 811 table divided by red and blue vertical lines, wb x/x/x/xâ 814 4-lOw00 A DICTIONARY of chemistry compiled by H. Watts, 5 vols. suppl.; 2nd edn; London; Longmans, Green Co.; 1871-1872 [Down] che, phy, tm vol. 1,118 33w00 125 wt Morphine 591 5-7m 727 28-30m/29u 1/1000 781 15-26m 866 41-46m, 54-62m 922 36m vol. 2, 21 56-64m 639 ll-13w Albumin Oxygen 60-64m/62u homogeneous substance 640 30-37m/32-33u albumin I composition 643 47~49m 829 25-27m (Liebig) vol. 3, 721 28-33m, 55-60m

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205 23-27m 247 3-Sm 249 5-7m, 29-30m/w pencilled spangled 251 wt seem very upright - apt to jerk their heads 33-34m 252 2-3m 253 2-2m, 8-16m 254 33-34m, wb I saw Aug 55 an Andalusian Fowl all slate colour 255 8-18m/w Spanish Fowl 34u blue\ colour 264 2S-22m 265 17-20m 273 7-9m, 14-18m, 24-26m, 33-35m 275 8-22m 277 36-38m 281 34-38m/- 285 31-32m 286 29-32 m 287 21-25m, 31-33m, 34-35m 288 14-18m 289 9-20m, 18-20m 291 3-9m, 33-34m 292 7-9m 305 26-2Sm 306 20-22m 308 16-20m/18u Aldovrandi , 26u