RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. [Abstract of Annales Des Sciences Naturelles, 1829]. CUL-DAR74.34-35. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 8.2021. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volumes CUL-DAR 72-75 contain Darwin's abstracts of scientific books and journals.


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Tom. XVI p 215 Fr. Cuvier Rapport sur un Mem. de M. Isid. G. St. Hilaire &c.

p. 222 F. Cuvier remarks that nature of hair hair often character of considerable importance in classification of Mammal & G. Hilaire so guided was led to find generic characters in a group of Ateles S. American Monkeys (shows relation of parts, though not cause & effect)

[Frédéric Cuvier. 1829. Rapport fait à I'Académie des Sciences sur un Mémoire de M. Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hiliare, ayant pour titre, etc. Annales des sciences naturelles, vol. 16: 215-224.]

Tom XVII. p. 86 Description d'un novel os de la face chez l'homme par M. Em. Rousseau. calls it "lachrymal externe ou petit unguis" Must not confound it with with" I osselet surnuméraire qu'on rencontre par fois sur le maxillaire supérieur (described by Beclard & by Cloquet) the former occurs 5 or 6 out of 10 heads it often varies in form & size. Is it an aborted bone of other quadrupeds - in one skeleton concurred with osselet of Beclard

[Emmanuel Rousseau. 1829. Description d'un nouvel os de la face chez l'homme. Annales des sciences naturelles, vol. 17: 86-88.]

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Tom XVII. p. 164 "Recherches su l'histoire de nos animales Domest. Dureau de la Malle" in times of Cesar & Nero geese & Ducks were kept in courts netted over, for they cd fly Cd wild fowls mistaken?

[Dureau de la Malle. 1829. Recherches su l'histoire ancienne de nos animaux domestiques et de nos plants usuelles (I). Annales des sciences naturelles, vol. 17: 159-165.]

p. 225 Müller "sur les yeux des insectes &c

p. 225 simple & compound eyes of articulata fundamentally distinct, some orders only one kind, some the other, most both - though Muller says by known agglomeration of simples (p. 104 Tom XVIII) passage is evident from simple to compound, yet the vision is so radically distinct, that it might be difficult to conceive how one kind would pass into other (might not transparent cone wh. does refract a little in compound shorter in crystalline & vitreous?) & now we see no passage is requisite; we might suppose we knew no case of insects having both kinds together.

[M. F. Müller. 1829. Sur les yeux la vision des insectes, des arachnids et des crustacés (I). Annales des sciences naturelles, vol. 17: 225-253.]


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