RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1849. CUL-DAR256.1. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 7.2022. RN1

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1850. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1849. 2d meeting held at Cambridge, August 1849. Boston.


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86 Agassiz defies anyone to distinguish embryo of Bat, Snake, Bird &c

[Louis Agassiz. The zoölogical character of young mammalia, pp. 85-9.]

147 Adams Land Mollusca W. Indies. Few widely distributed, most very local — general Law in Land Mollusca & indeed in all. Bears on dominant forms. & on Alph. De Candolle very widely if widely distributed

[C. B. Adams. Remarks on the distribution of the testaceous mollusca of Jamaica, pp. 147-48.]

397. A. Gray on Series of Compositæ at Sandwich— extinct genus is confined to Pacific Coast of America— Illustrates Hookers Rule that when genus confined to group — Each isld. has its own Species, — But is this Hookers rule?

[A. Gray. On some plants of the order compositæ from the Sandwich Islands, pp. 397-8.]

434. Agassiz on many extinct types combining characteristics now separated 435

435. Prophetic types & which are the latter. — 437 Embryonic types

[On the differences between progressive, embryonic, and prophetic types in the succession of organized beings through the whole range og geological times, pp. 432-38.]


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