RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. [Index to references on] Variation under Nature. CUL-DAR75.113-117. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 6.2021. Corrections and editing by John van Wyhe 5.2025, 8.2025. RN2

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112 (Reviews) Hoffmann. Table [illeg] of variation of all Plants

Hoffmann, Hermann. 1869. Untersuchungen zur Bestimmung des Werthes von Species und Varietät, ein Beitrag zur Kritik der Darwinischen Hypothese. Giessen: J. Ricker'sche Buchhandlung. [with quotation from Mendel 1865 on p. 52. No Darwin annotations are on this page.][Darwin Pamphlet Collection reviews 112] PDF

Zoological Record 1867 p. 524 variation in tail of tongue of Embiidæ.

118 (4to Pamp) L. Lindsay p. 46 Definition of Sp & var & discussion on do

Lindsay, William Lauder. 1868. Contributions to New Zealand botany. London: Williams and Norgate. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection Quarto 118] PDF

p. 83-88 On extreme variability of certain N. Zealand Plants

121 do Walsh — on 2 forms in the 2 forms of cicada [illeg]

[Walsh, Benjamin Dann.] 1868. The Hellgrammite fly. (Corydalis cornutus, Linn). American Entomologist 1 (December): 61-62. (whole issue) [Darwin Pamphlet Collection Quarto 121] PDF

H. C. Watson. Compendium. C. C. B. p. 37-31 Terms & Definitions for the various aggregates of vars & close species.

Watson, Hewett Cottrell. 1868-1870. Compendium of the Cybele Britannica. London: Thames Ditton. 3 parts. CUL-DAR.LIB.665 PDF, PDF

Murphys Intelligence &c Vol. I see note M.S. on Transitions or vars in [Tifues] p 294-305

Murphy, Joseph John. 1879. Habit and intelligence: a series of essays on the laws of life and mind. 2d ed. London: Macmillan. [Darwin Library-Down] PDF [?]

Quatrefages (Review 146) p. 139 on variability of cultivated Plantago, Decaisne

Quatrefages de Bréau, Jean Louis Armand de. 1868-1869. Origines des espèces animales et végétales. Revue des deux mondes 2d ser. 78 (1868): 832-860; 79 (1869): 208-240; 80 (1869): 64-95, 397-432, 638-672. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection reviews 146] PDF

do p 145 stags of Corsica, introduced & new distribution (like rabbits of P. Santo)

Direct action

F Müller (4to Pamph. 135) Monstrous Begonia under nature (Transition)

Müller, Fritz. 1870. Umwandlung von Staubgefässen in Stempel bei Begonia. Uebergang von Zwitterblüthigkeit in Getrenntblüthigkeitbei Chamissoa. Triandrische Varietät eines monandrischen Epidendrum. Botanische Zeitung 28: 149-153, pl. II. (whole issue) [Darwin Pamphlet Collection Quarto 135] PDF

Walsh ((4to Pamph. 143) p. 16 remarkable variation in antenna

[Walsh, Benjamin Dann and Charles Valentine Riley.] 1869. Why noxious insects increase upon us. [review of articles by E. S. Hull, H. W. Beecher, and Puritan] American Entomologist 2: 1-2. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection Quarto 143] PDF

p. 20 variation of veins in wings of Ten….. , which generally so constant

p. 22 variation in Habit of caterpillar busying for metamorphosis

Marshall (4to Pamph. 157) p. XIII [Florikins] as variable as Ruff

Marshall, Charles Henry Tilson and Marshall, George Frederick Leycester. 1870. A monograph of the Capitonidae, or scansorial barbets. London: By the authors. 35 pls. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection Quarto 157] PDF

Caton (8vo Pamph. 533) p. 3 variability of Deer — good

Leidy, Joseph. 1870. Reptilian remains from the cretaceous formation near Fort Wallace. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia 1: 9-10. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 533] PDF

Günther (8vo Pamph. 525) on doubtful numbers of species of Fish, like Rubus.

Gray, John Edward. 1870. Preface. To: Günther, Albert. 1870. Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum, vol. 8: Physostomi: Gymnotidae, Symbranchidae, Muraenidae, Pegasidae, Lophobranchii, Plectognathi, Dipnoi, Ganoidei, Chondropterygii, Cyclostomata, Leptocardii. London, 7pp. from preface. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 525] PDF

Allen (8vo Pamph. 545) on immense body of facts on variability p. 149-232

Allen, Joel Asaph. 1869. Catalogue of the mammals of Massachusetts, with a critical revision of the species. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College, in Cambridge [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 545] PDF

H. Müller (8vo Pamph. 550) p. 36-38, p. 46-47. intermediate vars of orchids carefully worked out

Müller, Hermann. 1868. Beobachtungen an westfälischen Orchideen. Verhandlungen des Botanischen Vereins Berlin Brandenburg 25: 1-62, pls. I-II. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 550] PDF

Godron (8vo Pamph. 561) on whether forms of Datura are species.

Godron, Dominique Alexandre. 1865. Observations sur les races du Datura stramonium. Nancy: Raybois. (Mémoires de l'Academie de Stanislas). [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 486, 561] PDF

Häckel (8vo Pamph. 567) Sponges — sp. like Foraminifera graduate into each other

Haeckel, Ernst. 1870. Über den Organismus der Schwämme und ihre Verwandtschaft mit den Corallen. Jenaische Zeitschrift für Naturwissenschaft 5: 207-235. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 567] PDF

Sidebotham (8vo Pamph. 577) variability of moths

Sidebotham, Joseph. 1869. On varieties in Lepidoptera. Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester 9: 12-14. (whole issue) [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 577] PDF

Delpino (8vo Pamph. 593) variability in Ento[illeg] & a[illeg] plants

[Delpino, Federico. 1870. Applicazione della teoria darwiniana ai fiori ed agli insetti visitatori dei fiori. Bolletino della Società Entomologica Italiana 2: 140-159. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 593] PDF]

Stoliczka (8vo Pamph. 599) var in [anal] pore of Lizards

[Stoliczka, Ferdinand. 1870. Observations on some Indian and Malayan Amphibia and Reptilia. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 39: 134-157; 159-228, pls. IX-XII. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 599, 676] PDF]

p. 164 variables in almost disappearance of thumb

p. 215 variability of scale, including labials in [illeg]

Speyer (8vo Pamph. 602) p. 63 Many fixed local forms & [illeg] sp. of Setina (Butterfly)

Speyer, Adolf. 1870. Ueber Setina aurita-ramosa und die Bildung montaner Varietäten. Entomologische Zeitung (Stettin) 31: 63-76. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 521, 602] PDF

Kefesten thinks all forms one species; there are 3 forms not connected by gradation

p. 66 intermediate form rare (crossing C.D p. 69) — like different heights — Excellent & full description — good case to show difficulty of distinguishing any local races & species.

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Forel (8vo Pamph. 628) on different value of grebe-chins from different Swiss lakes.

Forel, François-Alphonse. 1869. Faux albinisme de trois jeunes cygnes de Morges, en 1868. Bulletin de la Société Vaudoise des Sciences Naturelles (Lausanne) 10: 132-136. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 628] PDF

Allen (8vo Pamph. 630) variability in nesting in U. States very good case — local habit of nesting on ground like my case of Black-bird.

Allen, Joel Asaph. 1869. Notes on some of the rarer birds of Massachusetts. American Naturalist 3 (December): 505-519. (whole issue) [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 630] PDF

Murie & Mivart. Zoolog. Transact vol. 7 Part I p. 96 on variability of muscle in Lemuridæ & gradation

Murie, James and Mivart, St George Jackson. 1869. On the anatomy of the Lemuroidea. (Read 17 March 1866.) Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 7 no. 1: 1-113, pls. I-IV. [CUL-DAR.LIB.PER-U1453] PDF

p 98 the lower forms

Journal of Linn. Soc vol. XI no. 52 Bot p 225 Baller's manner of classifying vars. of Rosa.

Bot XI. no 53 p 265. Bentham on variability of æstivation in same [illeg] — Gradation between 2 groups.

Bentham's address 1869 (Coff with Journal paper back) p. LXXIV) on certain species not varying whilst most vary in same genus.

Bentham's address 1870 (paper copy) p. LXXX. Close vars of Rubus mostly different in France from here — Excellent on vars in distant countries

Proc. Trans. Soc. 1869 Part II. p 236 — 2 vars of Lepus differing in size of feel in relation to Habit of Snow

1870 Part II. p. 210 in the paper by [illeg] case of variable & too closely allied humming Birds

Proc. Zoolog. Soc. 1876 Part II. p. 563 difference in Birds when bright from distant parts, p 567, 571 & other cases.

Agassiz de l'Espece & de [illeg] p. 380 on great individual variability in sea-shell

Agassiz, Louis. 1869. De l'espèce et de la classification en zoologie. F. Vogeli, trans. Paris: Germer Baillière. CUL-DAR.LIB.6 PDF

Morgan on the Beaver p 44, 289 — change now going on in colour of Rats for protection — curious facts & speculation

Morgan, Lewis Henry. 1868. The American beaver and his works. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott. CUL-DAR.LIB.447 PDF

Harris Ent. correspondence p. 201. marked var in number of joints in antenna of Hessian Fly.

Harris, Thaddeus William. 1869. Entomological correspondence of Thaddeus William Harris, M. D. Ed. by Samuel H. Scudder. Occasional papers of the Boston Society of Natural History, 1. Boston: Society of Natural History. [inscribed by editor][Darwin Library-Down] PDF

Masters on Teratology p. 90 & 320 Var. in phytolotaxis.

Masters, Maxwell Tylden. 1869. Vegetable teratology, an account of the principal deviations from the usual construction of plants. London: The Ray Society. CUL-DAR.LIB.418 PDF

8vo (663) Coues — very valuable paper on variability of Birds in the U. States

Coues, Elliott. 1869. On variation in the genus Aegiothus. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 21: 180-189. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 663] PDF

(676) Stolicza on great variability of wobbly of feet in a Bufo.

Stoliczka, Ferdinand. 1870. Observations on some Indian and Malayan Amphibia and Reptilia. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 39: 134-157; 159-228, pls. IX-XII. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 599, 676] PDF

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Transact Ent. Soc 1871. Part II p. 215 Wollaston on early local Atlantic form presenting some little peculiarity.

[Wollaston, Thomas Vernon. 1871. On additions to the Atlantic Coleoptera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London [4th ser. 4] no. 2: 203-314. [CUL-DAR.LIB.PER-U452] PDF ]

Trans Linn. Soc vol. 26 P. III p. 647 on variability in divergence of leaves Henslow p 657 do.

[Henslow, George. 1870. On the variations of the angular divergencies of the leaves if Helianthus tuberosus. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 26 no. 4: 647-659, pl. L. [CUL-DAR.LIB.PER-U803] PDF]

Zoolog Record 1869 p 566 Vars. in number of ridges in jaws of land-shells.

Riley Noxious insects [p. 172]

Riley, Charles Valentine. 1871-1877. Third to ninth Annual reports on the noxious, beneficial, and other insects in the State of Missouri. 7 vols. Jefferson City: Horace Wilcox. CUL-DAR.LIB.543 PDF

p 141 Remarkable var. in colour of caterpillar of Sphynx on the Azores

p 19 on general characteristics of variation of Birds in Azores.

Flower [illeg] p. 270 variability of Carpal Bones of Cetacea

8vo Pamphlet (694) curious var. of Planorbis apparently Hereditary

Piré, Louis. 1871. Recherches malacologiques. Notice sur le Planorbis complanatus (forme scalaire). Brussels: Nys. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 694] PDF

(721) Nestor parrot in N. Zealand. Occasional wonderful variations in colour.

Potts, Thomas Henry. 1870. On the birds of New Zealand. (Part II.) Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 3: 59-110, 7 pls. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 721] PDF

(727) Balfour on variation on Dimorphism by seasons with Hieracium

Balfour, John Hutton. 1870. On the variation, at different seasons, of a Hieracium, considered to be H. stoloniflorum, Waldst. and Kit., as described in Fries' "Symbolœ ad Historiam Hieraciorum," Upsala, 1848, p. 5. Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh 11 (December): 82-83. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 727] PDF

4to Pamphlet (192) on variation of Lepidoptera — good remarks.

White, Francis Buchanan. 1871. Fauna Perthensis; or, contributions towards a knowledge of the animals inhabiting Perthshire. Part I.—Lepidoptera. Perth: Perthshire Society of Natural Science. [remainder not published][Darwin Pamphlet Collection Quarto 192] PDF

(196) Duval-Jouve, good of Histological difference in closely allied species

Duval-Jouve, Joseph. 1871. Des comparaisons histotaxiques et de leur importance dans l'étude critique des espèces végétales. Mémoires de l'Académie des Sciences et Lettres de Montpellier 7: 471-526. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection Quarto 196] PDF

p. 509 — on variation of the same species not being the same in distant countries.

Transact Ent Soc. 1871 Part IV. p. 420 good on variability of Zygænæ trifolii

[Briggs, T. H. 1871. On the forms of Zygænæ Trifolii, with some remarks on the question of specific difference, as opposed to local or phytophagic variation, in that genus. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London [4th ser. 4] no. 4: 417-440. [CUL-DAR.LIB.PER-U454] PDF]

Hagen Catalogue of Astacidæ. (Cat. Harvard College) p. 13 Variability of

Hagen, Hermann August. 1870. Monograph of the North American Astacidae. Illustrated Catalogue of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College, 3. Cambridge, Mass:University Press. 109pp. [CUL-DAR.LIB.PER-U184] PDF

p. 24 Dimorphism of — one form always sterile

Seidlitz Darwin'sche Theorie p. 37 variability of [enlogne] of Fishes.

Seidlitz, Georg. 1871. Die Darwin'sche Theorie: Elf Vorlesungen über die Entstehung der Thiere und Pflanzen durch Naturzüchtung. Dorpat: C. Mattiesen. [inscribed][Linnean Society of London, C.341/5] & formerly: CUL-DAR.LIB.584 PDF

Weismann  Einfluss der Isolierung p. 20 variable caterpillar in colour in [illeg] case of dimorphism no [illeg] to colour of imagos.

Weismann, August. 1872. Über den Einfluss der Isolirung auf die Artbildung. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann. [inscribed] CUL-DAR.LIB.674 PDF

p. 111 on the manner in which the forms of Planorbis gradually change according to Hilgendorf

This is accurate case known of seeing how species change.

Whole Essay excellent

Allen Mammals & winter Birds of Florida; much on individual & geographical variation, all marked — p 166 song of Birds — numerous Tables of measurements p 196 p 226 [illeg] of colour with [illeg] — Relative size of parts differ like what I have shown in pigeons

Allen, Joel Asaph. 1870. On the mammals and winter birds of east Florida. With an examination of certain assumed specific characters in birds, and a sketch of the bird-faunae of eastern North America. Cambridge, Mass. University Press. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, at Harvard College in Cambridge. 2 no. 3: 161ff. CUL-DAR.LIB.735 PDF

8vo Pamph (735) Famintzin important experiments showing the very lowest organs vary; indirectly & directly by changed conditions

Famintzin, A. 1871. Die anorganischen Salze als ausgezeichnetes Hülfsmittel zum Studium der Entwickelung neiderer chlorophyllhaltiger Organismen. Bulletin de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. Petersbourg 17: 31-70, 3 pls. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 735] PDF

(740) Brock case of inherited scalariform variation in Planorbis

Broeck, Ernest van den. 1872. Considérations sur les déviations scalariformes présentées par les Planorbis complanatus de la mare de Magnée. Annales de la Société Royale Malacologique de Belgique 7: X-XI. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 740] PDF

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Trans. Ent Soc 1872 P. 2 p. 143 on gt. difference in developments of wings in ♀ Acentropus, apparently the same species p. 161 doubts on identity of sp.

p. 162 Variation in genital apparatus of insects.

Dunning, J. W. 1872. On the genus Acentropus. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London [4th ser. 5] no. 2: 121-156. [CUL-DAR.LIB.PER-U457] PDF

Arch. Zoolog. Expr (L. Duthiers) (no. 2) p. 175 C. Dareste says there is no more identity in genus than in adult individuals.

Transact. Zoolog. Soc Vol. VIII. Pt. I. Flower on variability in number of teeth in a Cetacean, in wh. number few.

Ross Graft Theory of Disease p. 262 quotes Wallen definition of a species — as good as any.

Ross, James. 1872. The graft theory of disease, being an application of Mr Darwin's hypothesis of pangenesis to the explanation of the phenomena of the zymotic diseases. London: J. & A. Churchill. [inscribed] CUL-DAR.LIB.547 PDF

Riley 4th Report noxious Insects p. 23 local var of caterpillar new Habit

Riley, Charles Valentine. 1871-1877. Third to ninth Annual reports on the noxious, beneficial, and other insects in the State of Missouri. 7 vols. Jefferson City: Horace Wilcox. CUL-DAR.LIB.543 PDF

p 58 Aphis 2 forms with different Habits

p. 63 vars of Grapes differently attached

p. 123 on caterpillar feeding on one tree in one distinct  on another tree in another district.

772 8vo Pamph — Giuntsburg on var. of important organ in man being early life & consequent death — [rate]

Giuntsburg, Karl Markovich (Günzburg, Charles). 1872. Die Kindersterblichkeit im Allgemeinen und die in den Findelhäusern insbesondere im Lichte der Darwin'schen Theorie. Journal für Kinderkrankheiten 58: 161-180. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 772] PDF

773 p. 47-53. Wilder on variability in number of Vertebræ

Wilder, Burt Green. 1871. Intermembral homologies. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 14: 154-188, 309-339, 399-420. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 773] PDF

780 do. Allen which page variability of Birds in different parts of range

Allen, Joel Asaph. 1872. Notes of an ornithological reconnaissance of portions of Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College, in Cambridge 3 no. 6: 113-183. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 780] PDF

782 Ghiliani — on very close sp. of grasshopper differing only in habit, & vocalization & instincts

Ghiliani, Vittore. 1869. Acclimazione spontanea. Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 1: 268-270. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 782] PDF

789 Marshall variation is not tail-feathers in allied & same species (also laws)

Marshall, William. 1872. Beobachtungen über den Vogelschwanz. Niederländisches Archiv für Zoologie 1: 194-210, 1 pl. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 789] PDF

800 Meehan. var. of Monotopic & wild sp. of plants

Meehan, Thomas. 1872. (On Cope and Price and hypothesis of evolution). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia 24 (May): 125-127. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 800] PDF

804. Jaeger p. 26 variation of insects p. 28 do p. 30 do

Jenyns, Leonard. (Blomefield) 1872. Local biology, followed by remarks on the faunas of Bath and Somerset. [Read 13 November.] Proceedings of the Bath Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club 2(4): 373-426. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 804] PDF

p. 42 Land Mollusca less variable than the aquatic in England

824 Variability of Rubus idaeus (raspberry) forms good.

Areschoug, Fredrik Wilhelm Christian. 1873. Rubus idaeus, its affinities and origin. Journal of Botany 11: 108-115. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 824] PDF

Proc. Zoolog. Soc. 1872. p. 607 Hudson on great difference of note of some Birds in B. Ayres & Patagonia

Hudson, W. H. 1872. On the habits of the swallows of the genus Progne met with the Argentine Republic. With notes by P. L. Sclater. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 40 no. 2: 605-609. [CUL-DAR.LIB.PER-U1399] PDF

Annals & Mag of Nat 1872. p. 248. Great var in teeth & joint of Trimerella ancient Brachiopod.

Davidson, Thomas and King, William. 1872. Remarks on the genera Trimerella, Dinobolus and Monomerella. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4th ser. 10 no. 58: 248-252. [CUL-DAR.LIB.PER-U337] PDF

American Nat. May 1872. p. 266-273 Allen vars in songs & nesting of birds

Allen, Joel Asaph. 1872. Ornithological notes from the West. American naturalist 6: 263-275, 342-351, 394-404. PDF

Jul. p. 402 Allen on intermediate vars & variability, important

Sept. p. 547 Coues on great variability of Opossum, good sentence.

Anon. 1872. [Review of] Catalogue of the penguins in the Museum of the Boston Society of Natural History. American naturalist 6: 545-546. PDF

8vo pamphlets

849 Grote on closely allied moths

Grote, A. R. 1873. Descriptions of Noctuidae, principally from California. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Science 1: 129-155. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 849] PDF

853 Saporta on the filiation of closely allied trees

Saporta, Louis Charles Joseph Gaston de. 1873. Sur les caractères propres a la végétation Pliocène, a propos des découvertes de M. J. Rames, dans le Cantal. [Read 17 February.] Bulletin de la Société géologique de France 3d ser. 1: 212-232. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 853, 907] PDF

Review of me (238) Nicholson on flexible & rigid types — bears on Prof. Jaegers views.

Nicholson, H. A. 1874. On the bearing of certain palaeontological facts upon the Darwinian theory of the origin of species, and on the general doctrine of evolution. Journal and Transactions of the Victoria Institute, 9 (December): 207-231. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection reviews 238] PDF

8vo. 870 Kerner quote & Schlechte Artex. Very good on the effects of

Kerner, Anton Joseph. 1866. Gute und schlechte Arten. Innsbruck: Wagner. (from: Österreichische botanische Zeitschrift 16: 71-76.) [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 870] PDF

884 Forel Var in important parts of ants

Forel, Auguste. 1870. Notices myrmécologiques, I. Sur le Polyergus rufescens. II. Description du Cremastogaster sordidula Nyl. ♂. Mittheilungen der Schweizerische entomologische Gesellschaft 3: 306-312. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 884] PDF

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8vo Pamphlets

915 Jordan on closely allied species, keep constant & do not naturally cross

[Darwin Pamphlet Collection 914 and 915 are missing. 915 could possibly be:
Jordan, Alexis. 1852. De l'origine des diverses variétés ou espèces d'arbres fruitiers et autres végétaux généralement cultivés pour les besoins de l'homme. Lyon: Imprimerie Dumoulin et Ronet. pp. 65-161 of "Mémoires de l'Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Lyon. Classe des sciences. Tome deuxième". CUL-DAR.LIB.751 PDF]

916 Hyatt relations of Jurassic ammonites; very slow loss of embryological characters; bears on acceleration

Hyatt, Alpheus. 1874. Abstract of a memoir on the 'Biological relations of the Jurassic ammonites'. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 17: 236-241. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 916, 945] PDF

917 Barber Mrs protective colours of cocoons

Barber, Mary Elizabeth. 1874. Notes on the peculiar habits and changes which take place in the larva and pupa of Papilio nireus. [Read 2 November.] Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 22: 519-521. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 917] Text PDF

919 Müller Hermann. Gradation in the use of wax by bees; case analogous to saliva of swifts

Müller, Hermann. 1875. Stachellose brasilianische Honigbienen zur Einführung in zoologischen Gärten empfohlen. Der Zoologische Garten 16: 41-55. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 919] PDF

922 Meehan var of Linaria introduced & wild & no plants to cross with

Meehan, Thomas. 1872. On the agency of insects in obstructing evolution. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia 24 (September): 235-237. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 922] PDF

923 Flower past gradual modification of animal forms & gradation

Flower, William Henry. 1873. On palaeontological evidence of the gradual modification of animal forms. Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain 7: 94-104. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 923] PDF

924 Wood-mason blind deep water crustacean with long antenna

Wood-Mason, James. 1873. On Nephropsis stewarti, a new genus and species of macrurous crustaceans, dredged in deep water off the eastern coast of the Andaman Islands. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 42(2): 39-44, pl. IV. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 924] PDF

926 Bedriaga fixed colours of lizards analogous to chameleon & criticism on Eimer's views.

Bedriaga, Jacques von. 1874. Über die Entstehung der Farben bei den Eidechsen. Jena: Hermann Dabis. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 926] PDF

4to Pamphlet (223) Moggridge on Bee Ophrys — varies greatly & yet self-fertilised & cannot cross with Spider O. — varies unlike to what it does in England

Moggridge, John Traherne. 1869. Ueber Ophrys insectifera L. (part.): eingegangen bei der Akademie im November 1868; mit vier Tafeln. Dresden: E. Blochmann & Sohn, 4 pls. (Trans. by H. G. Reichenbach) [Verhandlungen der Kaiserlichen Leopoldino-Carolinischen deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher 35 (1870): (3d paper) 1-16.][Darwin Pamphlet Collection Quarto 223] PDF

(231) Duval-Jouve A Sp. of Cyperus varies much & made into several sp. but its Hist. identical (do. p 406) — remarks on value of Jordan's [illeg] what can ever cause the Hist. to change? He sees no difficulty p. 407.

Duval-Jouve, Joseph. 1874. Étude histotaxique des Cyperus de France. Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France, 21: 114-120. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection Quarto 231] PDF

Proc. Zoolog. Soc. 1874 Part 4. Sharpe p. 581 — many Birds in Britain differ slightly from those on continent. Female Kestril varying like its southern representative

Sharpe, Richard Bowdler. 1874. Contributions to a history of the Accipitres or birds of prey. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 42 no. 4: 580-584, pl. LXVIII. [CUL-DAR.LIB.PER-U1407] PDF

— – p. 596 good case of important muscle, characteristic of close groups sometimes present, [illeg] absent in one species, viz Stronger.

Proc. California Acad Vol. V. p. 125 Dr Cooper. Land-shells living in cool damp situation lose characteristic of involuntarily "viz. sharp delicate structure, brittle & angular periphery"

Cooper, J. G. 1873. On the law of variation in the banded California land shells. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 5: 121-125. PDF

Annals & Mag of N. Hist 1873 (June) p. 427 Excessive variability of Sponges Hackel

Haeckel, Ernst. 1873. On the Calcispongiæ, their position in the animal kingdom, and their relation to the theory of descendence. Annals and Magazine of Natural History  4th ser. 12 no. 71: 421-430. [CUL-DAR.LIB.PER-U350] PDF

Journal Linn. Soc. Vol. XIV no 75. Howard on Cinchona p. 158 not over permanent forms; which can be distinguished from others, yet each strictly inherited when [illeg] for noteworthy p. 174

Howard, John Eliot. 1874. On the genus Cinchona. Journal of the Linnean Society of London (Botany) 14 no. 75: 156-179. [CUL-DAR.LIB.PER-U670] PDF  

Bears on Nageli & Jourdain, but then form seem to its inhabitant distinct regions, yet each form occasionally variable in high degree, for which there might be some cause.


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Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

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