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same (Palm & Thormium tenax) as in New Zealand & Australia. some species of Australian genera ∴ good case. rather large flora (150 ?)

M^r Brown did not observe scarcely any Australian character in Timor plants, yet it seems there may be Eucalyptus! — 20 (Hostile fact)

Be cautious about Goulds² case of birds of Van Diemens land & Australia.— The wombat (Brown)³ is found in Is^d of Bass's Straits

100 Robert Brown, in Matthew Flinders, A Voyage to Terra Australis, London, 1814, Appendix III; possibly also personal communication.
101 John Gould, Synopsis of the Birds of Australia and the adjacent islands, London, 1837-8.
102 proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 49, the wombat "was brought from one of the islands in Bass's Straits".

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The common mushroom & other cryptogamic plants same in Australia & Europe.¹ — if creation be absolute theory, the creation must take place as when creator sees the means of transport fail.— otherwise no relation between means of transport & creation exists.— pool may have been created at many spots & since disseminated.
See Habits of Malay fowls² p. 5 (note) on some papers on instincts³

¹ Robert Brown, in Matthew Flinders, Voyage to Terra Australis, London, 1814, Appendix III, p. 539 : "southern extremity of Van Diemen's Island, where the necessary conditions exist, the relative proportion of Cryptogamous plants is not materially different from that of the south of Europe".
² French 1825. An inquiry respecting the true nature of instinct, and of the mental distinction between brute animals and man; introductory to a series of essays, explanatory of the various faculties and actions of the former, which have been considered to result from a degree of moral feeling, and of intellect. Zool. J. Lond. 1:1-32,153-73,346-67, p. 5.
³ John Oliver French, "An inquiry respecting the true nature of instinct, …" Zoological Journal, vol. 1, 1825, pp. 1-3, 153-173, 346-366.

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L'Institut 1838 p. 184 Botany of Bonin¹ "grande analogie avec la Flore du Japon", some European & Sandwich species & some of Japan. I do not understand any new ones.— Memoir will be published St. Petersbourgh Academy Journal. Paper read in 1837 semestre..

I suspect some valuable analogies might be drawn between habitual actions of plants when exciting cause is absent & memory of animals.— (surely in plants

¹ Heinrich Gustav Bongard, L'Institut, tome 6, 1838, p. 184, "Mémoire sur la végétation des Iles de Bonin" ; original in Bull. Scient. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pétersbourg, tome 2, 1838, pp. 369-372.

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movements effects of irritability, though means injection of fluid different from contraction of fibre) — it is most remarkable habitual action in plants, it allows of any degree in lowest animals — habitual action in intestines subject to sympathetic nerves.—
The vividness of first thoughts memory in children or rather their memory, very remarkable — scenes in themselves accidental — my first thought of sea side.—

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N.B. I met an old man who told me that the mules between canary birds & goldfinches differed considerably in their colour & appearance.
Every now & then — short-tailed cat ?cut? has its offspring short tails / one born at Maer
Tuckeys Voyage¹ p. 36 "Cercopithecus sabaeus" said to be monkey of S^t Jago C de Verds; same as on coast of Africa.— Macleay tells me same thing
p. 55. 40 leagues from land several patches of reeds & trees.²
p. 259. 120 ft in length. some branches of Justicia still growing passed us.³

¹ James Kingston Tuckey, Narrative of an Expedition to explore the River Zaire, usually called the Congo 1816 … London, 1818.
² ibid., p. 55, "When forty leagues from the land, several floating patches of reeds and trees passed u".
³ ibid., p. 259, "120 feet in length and consisting of reeds resembling the Donax, and a species of Agrostis, among which were still growing some branches of Justicia". These notes show that Darwin was already concerned with the survival of land organisms in sea water.

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do. p. 243 (Professor Smith's Journal) on the heights of St. Jago found a Euphorbia so near Piscatoria as scarcely to be distinguished from it.¹.— & several old acquaintances which grow on the lower region of the Canary islands.—

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¹ ibid., p. 243, "I found at last an Euphorbia, that bore so near a resemblance to piscatoria as scarcely to be distinguished from it".