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element of extreme difficulty in mundine geological chronology.
Annals of Natural History Vol. I ?? p. 318 some remarks on Bonaparte's¹ list of birds in Europe & N. America on closely allied species replacing each other. good to consult.

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p. 326 wild ass extending over 90° of Long. & Col. Sykes² alludes to some other case of 180° & great diff. of Lat^d.
p. 355. Echidna of Van Diemen's land & Australia different.³ Temminck Fauna Japonica (??)⁴ 82 Mammalia
p. 293 Phalangista⁵ of Australia & Van Diemen's land diff.—

¹ Charles Louis Bonaparte, Prince of Musignano, "A geographical and comparative list of Birds of Europe and North America ", Annals of Natural History, vol. 1, 1838, pp. 318-320.
² Annals of Natural History, vol. 1, 1838, p. 322, "Proceedings of Learned Societies … A Paper was read by Colonel Sykes, ' On the identity of the Wild Ass of Cutch and the Indus, with the Dzeggetai (Equus hemionus of Pallas) '."
³ Annals of Natural History, vol. 1, 1838, p. 335 : "Miscellaneous". … On the two species of Echidna, by J. E. Gray. "Sir E. Home, in his paper in the Phil. Trans. for 1802, figured two specimens of this animal, and Cuvier (Règne Animal, vol. i, p. 225) considered them as two species, naming the one Echidna Hystrix, and the other E. setosa ; but most succeeding zoologists have regarded them as a single species … The E. Hystrix, Cuv. … came from the continent of New Holland, while E. setosa, Cuv. … is confined to Van Diemen's Land".
⁴ Annals of Natural History, vol. 1, 1838, p. 335 : "Miscellaneous" … "Zoology of Java". "Temminck, in the Fauna Japonica, states, that he knows 82 kinds of mammalia, 455 birds, and 90 species of amphibia, as inhabiting that Island, although the interior is almost entirely unknown".
⁵ John Edward Gray, "A reply to Mr Ogilby's Communication to the Annals of Natural History respecting Phalangista cookii ", Annals of Natural History, vol. 1, 1838, pp. 293-7.

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Habits can only be used in classification as indication of structure (including brains & other organs difficult to analyse), will not this separate facts about abortive organs &c.
The doctrine of monsters¹ is preeminently worthy of study on the idea of those parts being most easily mortified which last produced — insane men in civilized countries — this is well worthy of investigation.

¹ John Hunter, in Richard Owen, Descriptive and illustrated Catalogue of the Physiological Series of Comparative Anatomy contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, London, 1833 1: iv.

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Institut 1838. p. 174. Aperçu very good on insectivorous quadrupeds — geographical range very good.— Blainville¹

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Ovington's² voyage to Surat floating isl^d off coast of Africa p. 69 with tall grass. p. 72 hairy sheep

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Edinburgh Transact Vol. IX p. 107 An Ascaris inhabits the eyes of horses in India in which it may be seen swimming about.³
A. Smith⁴ is firmly believed in representation, certain birds in many families, & very often in number 5 will have long tail.— in raptorial birds, & tigers & sharks, being spotted & colours of little value

¹ Henri-Marie de Blainville, L'Institut, tome 6, 1838, p. 174, Zoologie : Mammiferes Insectivores.
² John Ovington, Voyage to Suratt 1689, London, 1696.
³ Alexander Kennedy, "Account of a non-descript Worm (the Ascaris pellucidus) found in the eyes of Horses in India", Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh, vol. 9, 1823, p. 107.
⁴ Andrew Smith, possibly personal communication.

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Dr Smith¹ if black & white man crosses, children heterogenous, he feels sure of this, first offspring most like parents mother.— like dogs Smith knew Chinese hairless dog & common spaniel crossed.— 3 puppies perfectly like Chinese & 3 perfectly like spaniel even when grown up.— Are mules homogenious owing to no attempt to keep up offspring, are not half lion & tigers ditto. (see Griffith)² & half Muscovy ducks, black cock & pheasant see Jardine's Journal.³ — consult on this point — pigs always go against this, without number of vertebra new acquisition, we must

¹ ditto ; cf. also Edward Blyth, "An attempt to classify the varities of animals", Magazine of Natural History, vol. 8, 1835, pp. 40-53 ; on p. 52 : "The mixed offspring of different varieties of Man thus generally blends the character of each, though instances are not wanting of its entirely resembling … either one or the other of its parents".
² Edward Griffith, The Animal Kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization, by the Baron Cuvier … with additional descriptions of all the species, London, 1827.
³ William Thompson, "On the hybrids produced in a Wild State between the Black-Grouse (Tetrao tetrix) and the Common Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus)", Magazine of Zoology and Botany, vol. 1, 1837, p. 450.

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∴ Those animals, which only propagate by scission can not alter much ? !
M^r Brown showed me Bauer's¹ drawings of a curious plant where a tube consisting of pistils & stamens united into long organ, moved on being touched, so as to protect itself, one segment of the corolla being (probably) smaller to allow it to lie on one side.— but in other species, this segment is converted into hood which possesses power of movement & not the organ itself

¹ Ferdinand Bauer, in Matthew Flinders, A Voyage to Terra Australis, London, 1814, vol. 2.

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How except by direct adaptation has such a change been effected.— the consciousness of the plant that this part must be protected however it may be effected.—

Prodromus Florae Norfolkicae. 1833 Steph. Endlicher¹ (He will give sketch of botany of islands of south sea says so in preface.—

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M^r Brown¹ says character of Flora N. Zealand & N. Caledonia with a dash of New Holland. same species as in N. Zealand — Some species of Australian Genera

¹ Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher, Prodromus Florae Norfolkicae; sive catalogus stirpium quae in insula Norfolk annis 1805-5 a Ferdinando Bauer collectae … Vindobonae, 1833.