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Report of 3d. Meeting of Brit. Assoc. for 1840. 20

W. Thompson Report on the Fauna of Ireland

p. 361. In N. of Ireland there "are Bush & burrow rabbits" In Annals of Nat. Hist Vol V.

p. 362. notice of Hares burrowing when turned out on exposed island!

p. 370 the Pica melanoleuca was not formerly an inhabitant of Ireland, said to have been blown over by a Gale in latter end of [James] II reign — now common..

Report for 1842. Richardson on the Ichthyology of New Zealand - no snakes but Polack asserts that 3 individuals of Pelamys (snake?)

Penny Encyclop. Sea-snakes were thrown ashore on a piece of timber & R. supposes were killed.

[in margin:] so as he remarks they obey in time, depth & space same law, & my rarity views are born out.

Report for 1843 -On Aegean Invertebrata by Prof. E. Forbes p. 173. Every species has 3 maxima of development in depth, geographic space & depth: there are often a series of representative species in depth - when this happens, the minimum of one species usually commences before that of which it is the representative has attained its corresponding minimum (ie mingle, this is important.) (Gives table of examples.)

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(2) Shows that littoral species are the most numerous, (& these cd hardly ever be preserved without subsidence.)

p. 209 Report on British Fossil Mammalia by R Owen – The difference Has seen upwards of 3000 teeth of fossil Elephant; & their difference from the living species "more or less manifested & all by every specimen."

p. 211 refers "to rare extreme varieties." but then mem. Falconers E.(?) or Mastodon meridionalis

1843. Transactions of Sections p. 67. Waterhouse on the classification of Mammalia

My daus amongst Carnivora in diet & general forms (analogy?) approaches the Insectivora; whilst Gymnura in the Insectivora in general form of skull & in having 6 incisors & in large canins approaches the carnivora; but these two animals do not approach towards each other in corresponding modifications of structure. [insertion: These are aberrant by modification & not by descent.] Aberrant species are readily traced back to their order & where they approach another circle, the affinity is to the order, & not to any particular species.

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(3) do. p. 71. Mr Thompson called attention to increased nidification of woodcocks in Ireland: in [illeg] Roden's park was first observed t remain throughout summer & rear its young in 1835, & in the year of 1843, 22 nests were found, so that now as plentiful in summer as in winter

Report for 1844 On the Extinct Mammals of Australia by R. Owen p. 226. A good case of those mysterious corelations of parts. (where no apparent end is gained) which can be explained by my descent, in "the inward inflection & the broad flattened surface" which the under part of th jaw of all marsupials presents. But then I have to account how it originates in any one instance: yet the mystery, is, not that it has once occurred, but that it is constant in vegetable feeding, carnivorous, insectivorous animals &c.

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4 p 237. speaking of Europe having same type with old Asia & Africa world fossils the Beaver represents the Trongontherium; the Lagomy exists; the Bactrian Camel typifies the huge Merycotherium of Siberia - Elasmotherium & Sivatherium have thus nearest allies in same grand division of the world, -Elasmotherium is according to Cuvier between horse & Rhinoceros - The existing 4-horned Antelopes are peculiar to India

p. 238 The Pangolin gigantesque or Macrotherium of Lartet of older pliocene or Miocene age is most closely nearer related to Mams than to any other Edentata, & this is exclusively African & Asiatic.

p. 306  Agassiz sur les Poissons fossiles de l'argile de Londres - finds in these Eocene beds, the first representative of the great northern family of Gadoidæ - so his table wrong in this.

p. 307. doubts whether he has not inserted too many M. Bolca fish in recent genera-