46

Tom XII p. 410. Thouin sur une nouvelle sorte de Greffe. —

split buds & united them in various ways, but invariably burst apart (so I doubt about hyacinth).

Tom. XIII p. 189. G. Cuvier sur les Brèches Osseuses.

In Corsica, only Rodent bones, a Lagomys northern genus & rat, perhaps recent. Mem. the Ovis musimon an inhabitant of Corsica. —

p. 198 at ile de Cérigo, there are bones, described by Spallanzani, as of a man, not otherwise known. — (Cerigo between Candia & the Peloponesus).

=

Tom. XIV. p. 189. F. Delaroche sur la vessie aerienne des poissons. —

In many genera one species has swim-bladder & one has not. (varies much in size, also in same genus).

p. 190 — when absent, absence complete — does not know a species where it is rudimentary. (very strange). had it not been for this, I shd have thought this variation of existence in same genys, concedes with abortion in the Gadus lota (Geneta Mem. Tome 3. p. 149. (p.9 of my abstract) from deep water in Lake of Geneva said to be "generally atrophied."

I think this is case in point.

47

Tom. XV. Considerations &c. M. Mirbel.

p. 126. Cotyledons organ of vegetation, yet of highest importance in dissification (he disputes the excessive value placed on parts of fructification) (repeats this at p. 473).

p. 129. — there are "familles en groupes" in which nearly every part in every species closely resemble each other, and "familles par enchaînement" — (name expresses what he means & implies that the genera or sub-groups are broken) (just like Milne Edwards remarks) merely depends on extinction.

p. 135

p. 213 & "l'importance des caracteres bien moins de leur constance que de la nécessite de leur coexistence." (the variability & coexistence are probably inverse to each other).

I see (p. 139) Jussieu has remarked "plus il y a des caracteres dependant les uns des autres, moins il sont sujets a varier."