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It would be curious experiment to know whether soaking seeds in salt water &c has any tendency to form varieties?

Ed. N. Phil. J. Morse found in Virginia p. 325. July 1828.¹ Animal now confined to extreme North.— || do p. 326.² 2 Fossil species of ox in N. America; as well as 2 recent

¹ Edinburgh New Philosoph. Journ. vol. 5, 1828, p. 325, "Discovery of a fossil walrus or sea-horse, in Virginia. [deB67]

² J. E. Dekay. "On a fossil ox from the Mississipi ", Edinburgh New Philosoph. Journ., vol. 5, 1828, p. 326. [deB67]

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See Geolog. Proc. p. 569. 1837.¹ Account of wonderful fossils of India.— & p. 545 gnat monkey²

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Mr Johnston³ says Mag of Zooly & Bot. p 65 Vol II talking of annelidae.— "The fact is an additional illustration ofthat axiom in Natural History that all aberrant & osculant groups are not only few in species, but every two or three these form genera — this is from unfavourable conditions there are many gaps. & those forms which nevertheless have produced species, have produced fe

¹ Sir Proby T. Cautley & Hugh Falconer. "On the remains of a fossil Monkey from the Tertiary strata of the Sewalik Hills in the north of Hindostan ", Proc. Geol. Soc., vol. 2, No 51, 1837, p. 568. [deB67]

² Sir Proby T. Cautley & Dr Royle: in an extract from a letter in Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. vol. 2, No. 51, p. 545 "… The animal must have been much larger than any existing monkey …" [deB67]

³ George Johnston. "Miscellanea Zoologica. The British Ariciadea ". Mag. Zool. Bot. vol. 2, 18., p. 65:— "not only comparatively few species, but at the same time these species so dissimilar among themselves that each, or every two or three of them, will be found to have characters which are properly generical ". [deB67]

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Marcel Serres p. 331. L'Institut — considers that mercu

Geo. Journ. p. 325. Vol. IV. Ducks on rivers in Guiana, build top of trees carry duckling to the water in their beaks, & the young one inland directly by instinct, can dive & conceal themselves in the grass.—

Beatson St. Helena says no trees succeed so well at St. Helena, as. Pineaster & Mimosa called Botany Bay Willow

V. Dr Royle introductory remarks to Himalaya Mountains —

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Bory St. Vincent Vol. III. p. 164. L île de la Reunion présente elle seule plus d'espèces polymorphes que toute la terre ferme de l'ancien monde" —

Considers forms in recent volcanic islets not well fixed.

Peron thinks Van Diemen's land long separated from Hobart Town — from difference of races of men and animals

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See R. N. p. 130 Speculations on range of allied species. p. 127. p. 132¹

There is no more wonder in extinction of individuals than of species

Paris Tertiary Shells in India!?² A p. 28³

Dr Beck.⁴ & Lyell,⁵ most curious law of species few in Arctic. in proportion to genera: agrees with late production of those regions, & consequently

¹ Sir John Richardson. Report on North American Zoology (6th Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1836). An offprint was given by the author to Darwin and was heavily annotated by him ; now in Cambridge University Library. Information kindly supplied by Dr Sydney Smith. [deB67]

² Sir Charles Lyell. Principles of Geology, 5th ed. Loudon, 1837 3: 378-379:— "The Recent Strata form a common point of departure in all countries … Thus, for example, if strata should be discovered in India or South America, containing the same proportion of recent shells as are found in the Paris Basin, they also might be termed Eocene ". [deB67]

³ Red Notebook, pp. 153-2 A28 (Text). McCleland 1837:567. JvW

⁴ Heinrich Henrichsen Beck. "Notes on the Geology of Denmark ", Proc. Geol. Soc. vol. 2, 1838, p. 217. [deB67]

⁵ Sir Charles Lyell. Principles of Geology, 5th ed., London 1837, vol. 3. See also Alexandre de Humboldt, Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles, Paris 1820, tome 18, p. 422 ; table: "Sur les lois que l'on observe dans la distribution des formes végétales ". [deB67]

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not many, yet multiplied: NB How does this bear with law referred to by Richardson¹ in Report about each genus having its parent type in hotter parts of world

Is monkey peculiar to C. de Verd's? No Macleay Name given in Congo Expedition²

We need not expect to find species varieties, intermediate between every species.— Who can find trace or history of species between

¹ Sir John Richardson, Report on North American Zoology, (Rep. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci. [Bristol 1836] vol. 5, 1837, pp. 121-224. [deB67]

² Reference uncertain. Capt. Tuckey's Narrative of an expedition [to explore] The River Zaire usually called the Congo, in South Africa in 1816. John Murray 1818. p. 36. "The only species here is the green monkey (Cercopithecus sabaeus)." [deB67]