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

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Kees Rookmaaker from photographs by John van Wyhe and edited by John van Wyhe 2016, 9.2025. RN2

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

Wallace, Alfred Russel. 1855. On the law which has regulated the introduction of new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2d ser. 16: (September): 184-196. [CUL-DAR.LIB.PER-U252] Text Image PDF

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

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184 Wallace's Paper

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p 430

New [illeg] of genera of Brachiopoda

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vol. 15

[Anon. 1855. [Review of] J. H. Balfour, Sketch of the life of the late professor Edward Forbes. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2d ser. 15: 35-52.]

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

[Gray, John Edward. 1855. On the painted pig of the Camaroons (Potamochoerus penicillatus). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2d ser. 15: 64-66.]

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

[Weinland, David Friedrich. 1855. On a marsupial frog from Venezuela (Notodelphys ovifera). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2d ser. 15: 158.]

158 On a marsupial frog with dorsal sack for young

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

[Schiödte, Jørgen Matthias Christian. 1855. On some Staphylinidae, found in the nests of termites. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2d ser. 15: 224-226.]

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

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

[Owen, Richard. 1855. On the anatomy of the walrus. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2d ser. 15: 226-229.]

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

[Clark, William. 1855. On Ancylus oblongus and A. fluviatilis. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2d ser. 15: 278-285.]

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

vol. 16

[Quatrefages de Bréau, Jean Louis Armand de. 1855. On double montrosities in fishes. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2d ser. 16: 47-51.]

51 on single germ in double monsters

[Huxley, Thomas Henry. 1855. On certain zoological arguments commonly adduced in favour of the hypothesis of the progressive development of animal life in time. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2d ser. 16: 69-72.]

69 Huxley on no new classes; only few new orders

[Horsfield, Thomas. 1855. Brief notices of several new or little-known species of Mammalia, lately discovered and collected in Nepal, by Brian Houghton Hodgson. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2d ser. 16: 101-114.]

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

[Wallace, Alfred Russel. 1855. On the law which has regulated the introduction of new species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2d ser. 16: 184-196. [CUL-DAR.LIB.PER-U252] Text Image PDF]

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)

[Davidson, Thomas. 1855. A few remarks on the Brachiopoda. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2d ser. 16: 429-445, pl. X. [CUL-DAR.LIB.PER-U252]]

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

439. Brachiopoda divisions.

[Anon. 1855. [Review of] Descriptive and illustrated catalogue of the histological series contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England: Prepared for the microscope. vol. 2: Structure of the skeleton of vertebrate animals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2d ser. 16: 454-457. [CUL-DAR.LIB.PER-U252]]

457. Lepidosiren half Batrachian bone structure.—


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