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L'Institut. 1838. p. 67. Australian rodents

Abstract of Infusoria. p do p. 62. Ehrenberg

Annals of Nat. Hist, precursor of magazine??? p. 75. roe of Asterias in stomach, of Sammon remain after rest of animal digested.— 19 (Important)

do p. 98. on a quaternary arrangement of Cryptogamic plants.— Owing to Plants not being adapted to Air!!

p. 101 — &c. valuable paper on quadrupeds of Van Diemen's land, which appear diff. from Australia (Waterhouse disputes this) says differently)

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do. do. on the genus Procyon..— by Wiegman

Classified catalogue of animals of Nepal read before Linnaean Soc. Feb. 1838.—

Annals of Natural History, vol I p. 159 curious account of Titmouse feeding young of redstart & actually driving away parent birds.— showing how blind a storge

From what I see of S. American birds, genera blend into each other in very same district.— The same Mem Tennioptera & Tyrannula (NB work out how many forms Tyrannula can we worked out into. Milvulus

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A communication¹ to Geograph. Soc. in February or March 1838 on soil in Siberia being frozen to 400 ft in depth (& Erman's² suspicion that it is not 700) is applicable to metamorphosis theory suppose when rhinoceros lived. mean temp 60° mean then temp at depth of four hundred feet would be 60° + 6° (??) therefore 34° degrees of change have travelled that thickness in that period & no ways assisted by fluid currents which may take place in metamorphic action.—

¹ K. E. von Baer, "On the ground ice or frozen soil of Siberia", Journ. Roy. Geograph. Soc., vol. 8, 1838, p. 212; "Recent intelligence upon the frozen ground in Siberia ", ibid., p. 401.
² Adolph Erman, letter from, Journ. Roy. Geograph. Soc., vol. 8, 1838, p. 214.

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Geograph Journal vol. I p. 17 &c excellent sketch of plants of New Holland. supplementary to Appendix to Flinders Voyage by Brown.¹ — Great space seems to act per se as barrier — Mem. Tartary & China, both coasts of New Holland.— Compare birds of Australia with plants, with this object in view. 20

The intimate relation of Life with laws of chemical combination, & the universality of latter render spontaneous generation not improbable.—

¹ Robert Brown, "General view of the Botany of the vicinity of the Swan River ", Journ. Roy. Geograph. Soc., vol. 1, 1832, p. 17.

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 How remarkable that Turdus Magellanicus. in the. S. Hemisphere, (replaced to the North by other species.—) should build a nest lined with mud, in forest where not a tree in which it builds, a berry on which it feeds, or insects it devours is same species, yet that it should so strictly f agree in habits with the Turdus Musicus not found in N. America whose Southern range is? One The black & white thrush of Azara builds its nest in same country something same manner, much mud.— These facts show, habits heredetary whilst species have changed

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Argumentum ad absurdum. The creative American halo has extended to Juan Fernandez in birds, but ?whether to same island in plants? — What is this halo..— Continents are not stationary unerring proofs not always continents..— it is a plastic virtue..— it is expression for ignorance
Two grand classes of varieties.; one where offspring picked, one where not..— the latter made by man & Nature; but cannot be counteracted by Man.— effect of external contingencies & long bred in.— Mem, an a statement in M^r Wynne's book, about not altering breed of animals in certain countries.—