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Index to contents of Drawer

1 Rabbit of P. Santo: lop-eared Mr Turnbull.—

2. Birds of Australia & Whewells Inductive Sciences  

5. Niata ox & extract on Ancora sheep =

having looked them over. ─  

7. aberrant genera having few species:  

Hooker & Bentham discussion on & List of Leguminosae by Bentham  —

8. Notes from Waterhouse & Schonherr

On range of genera with respect to size.

Some remarks on theoretical genera distribution.—

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Catalogue

9. D^r Asa Gray. Result showing "close species" belong to large genera: ) (The genera which have varieties are also large genera; & their relation in number between the genera which have close species & varieties) (on the proportion of nat. Introduced plants useless now, but list showing the proportion of nar. fam. very different in some cases in U. States & England: Europe ought to be comparison: V. Decandolle who will probably do it.) (List of alpine plants with ranges over world.) (Speculations on the travelling of arctic plants for America & Europe.)

10. Henslow's list of plants, deduction from & remarks showing the large genera include most varieties & varieties thought by some good men to be species. —

11. Watsons Cybele, Ballast plants. — British plants with dif range W or S in Britain. —

The wide ranges in Britain belong to large genera & conversely. — Aliens. & Few remarks on alpine plants. —

12. My M.S. on salting seeds & on floating of plants.

13. H. C. Watson — on relation of number of close species & var. to large genera &; definition & example of the various kinds of close species & how they blend together; discussion how far a small country may be used as test for such calculations; on flourishing species carrying (Wahlenberg) opposed by alpine species not varying.

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Catalogue of Subjects &c. (not solely books)

14. Sulivan notes on Falkland Is^d. —

15 Pfeiffer ranges of Land shells & on varieties found in different islands of Philippines. Abstract of little use Catalogue, of little use — note in ranges of same genera in N. & S. hemisphere, negative & Notes from M^r Cuming about shells in Pacific.

16. Johnstons Physical atlas: on geograph. Bot. & On zoology distinct (on range of bats, with extract from Fischer & letters by Jones). & On decrease of sables &c. & Alpine quadrupeds — Palaeontology excellent by Forbes & on succession of types & on small characters common to whole groups. — On fall of ashes. — On range of ice action in Six Currents of Ocean: — On range of relation to rise of genera in Muridae & carnivora. — (New Map by Forbes on Distrib of marine life)  

17. Hooker Flora N.Z. on size of genera to varieties

Boreau Flore de France on do & common plants: Fuonrohr on do & vars.

Tabulate Dana for range & size of genera

18 My M.S. on History of cultivated plants