RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1855. [Annotations in his copy of:] Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 2, vol. 15 (1855) and vol. 16 (1855). CUL-DAR.LIB.723. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Kees Rookmaaker and edited by John van Wyhe 2016. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. CUL-DAR.LIB.PER U244-U255

This includes Darwin's reading notes on A. R. Wallace, 1855. On the law which has regulated the introduction of new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (ser. 2) 16 (93): 184-196.

On Darwin's widely misunderstood remarks on Wallace's paper, see: John van Wyhe, The impact of A. R. Wallace's Sarawak Law paper reassessed. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences. 60 (December 2016): 56-66.


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Catalogue Apidae F. Smith

p. 51

p. 56

p. 110

113

141

184 Wallace's Paper

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238

239

386

p 430

New [illeg] of genera of Brachiopoda

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439

451

457

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vol. 15

[p. 35. Sketch of the life of the late professor Edward Forbes]

46 Area of genra. Diagram of [illeg] in & slower going out of genera — continuous range in time.

21 5 Forbes in Many of zoology & Bot. vol. I

[p. 64. On the painted pig of the Camaroons. By John Edward Gray]

66 Gr. On collection of heads of wild Boars (Ch. 4)

[p. 158. On a marsupial frog from Venezuela. By D. F. Weinland]

158 On a marsupial frog with dorsal sack for young

These are [illeg] good not so close a parallel.

[p. 224. On some staphylinidae found in the nests of termites. By M. Schiödte]

224 On Termites having soldiers & workers. — workers not larvae.

Hymenopt. & termites have wrokers and others as odd as electrical fishes.

[p. 226. On the anatomy of the walrus. By Owen.

229. On dentition of Walrus deviating greatly from type & variableOwen.

[p. 278. On Ancylus oblongus and A. fluviatilis. By William Clark.]

283. On variability of teeth in molluscs, applicable to great difference in allied speices

vol. 16

[p. 47. On double montrosities in fishes]

51 on single germ in double monsters

[p. 69. On certain zoological arguments commonly adduced in favour of the hypothesis of the progressive development of animal life in time, by T.H. Huxley]

69 Huxley on no new classes; only few new orders

[p. 101. Brief notices of several new or little-known species of Mammalia, lately discovered and collected in Nepal, by Brian Houghton Hodgson. By T. Horsfield.]

110 7 species of otter in Nepaul, but not numerous in individuals.

[p. 184 On the law which has regulated the introduction of new species. By A.R. Wallace]

185 Wallaces paper: laws of Geograph. Distrib. Nothing very new. — 186. His general summary "Every species has come into existence coincident in time & space with preexisting species." — Uses my simile of tree — It seems all creation with him — Alludes to Galapagos.

189 on even adjoining species being closest — (it is all creation, but why does his law hold good; he puts the facts in striking point of view — 194 argues against our supposed geological perfect knowledge — explains rudimentary organs on same idea

(I shd state that put generation for creation & I quite agree)

[p. 429. A few remarks on the Brachiopoda. By Thomas Davidson.]

430. Davidson. Excellent table showing continuous genera in time.

439. Brachiopoda divisions.

[pp. 456-457, book review]

457. Lepidosiren half Batrachian bone structure.—


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