RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstracts on Sports, many references. CUL-DAR193.87. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2022. 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. The volume CUL-DAR193 contains notes for Darwin's book Variation under domestication (1865-75).

See the full references in The Complete Library of Charles Darwin.

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Faivre var. de Especes p. 44

[Faivre, Ernest. 1868. La variabilité des espèces et ses limites. Paris: Germer Baillière. [inscribed] CUL-DAR.LIB.186 PDF]

Carriere. Fix des Vars. p. 34-58 see paper

[Carrière, Élie-Abel. 1865. Production et fixation des variétés dans les végétaux. Paris: Libraire agricole de la Maison Rustiane. [inscribed] CUL-DAR.LIB.107 PDF]

Shirref on Wheat p 47.

[Shirreff, Patrick. 1873. Improvement of the cereals; and, An essay on the wheat-fly. Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood. CUL-DAR.LIB.586 PDF Variation 2d ed. 1: 410: "My father repeatedly tried this experiment, and always with the same result. I may here mention that maize and wheat sometimes produce new varieties from the stock or root, as does the sugar-cane.72
72 For wheat, see 'Improvement of the Cereals,' by P. Shirreff, 1873, p. 47."]

Gard. Chronicle. 1868 p 326

― 1870. p. 388

p. 1505

1871. p. 646

Masters 8vo Pamphlet 743

[Masters, Maxwell Tylden. 1872. Bud-variation. Popular Science Review 11: 244-256. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 743] PDF]

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