RECORD: Darwin, C. R. and Emma Darwin n.d. Abstracts on Laws of Variation. CUL-DAR75.118. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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Laws of Variation
4to Pamphlet (220) Caspary Criticisms p. 78 on Nägeli on Hieracium
Caspary, Robert. 1870. Die Nuphar der Vogesen und des Schwarzwaldes. Halle: H. W. Schmidt. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection Quarto 220] PDF
— — (226) Heer p 23 argues against slow modification.
Heer, Oswald. 1864. Discours prononcé à l'ouverture de la 48e session de la Société Helvétique des Sciences Naturelles. n.p.: n.p. (from: Bibliothèque Universelle et Revue Suisse (Archives des sciences physiques et Naturelles) n.s. 21: 335-369.) [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 366] PDF
— — (227) Kovalesvky, modification slow — character present in common individuals & absent in others & others change effected Parallel or analogous changes in distinct groups.
Kovalevsky, Vladimir Onufrievich. 1873. Sur l'Anchitherium aurelianense Cuv. [Read 5 September 1872.] Mémoires de l'Académie impériale des sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg 7th ser. 20 no. 5: 1-73, 3 pls. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection Quarto 227] PDF
— — (228) Saporta — process of slow modification, fossil plants, 2 places.
Saporta, Louis Charles Joseph Gaston de. 1873. Examen critique d'une collection de plantes fossiles de Koumi (Eubée). Annales scientifiques de l'école Normale Supérieure 2: 323-352. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection Quarto 228] PDF
— — (230) Eimer. important study whole pamphlet. — as any change of condition causes sterility — so any change causes variability & the variation depend on innate organisation. Mem. Hooker's view that to final result is action & reaction of culture & organism.
Eimer, Theodor. 1874. Zoologische Studien auf Capri. I Über Beroë ovatus. II Lacerta muralis coerulea. Ein Beitrag zur Darwin'schen Lehre. 2 vols. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection Quarto 230][Copy not found, CCD24:542] vol. 1 PDF vol. 2 PDF
Journal of Geolog. Soc. (no 116) parallel development in ammonites.
Proc. Zoolog Soc. 1874. Part 4 p. 581 Analogous variation.
Journal of Anthropolog. Institute 1874 (no 10) p. 108-115 Howorth — direct effects of conditions
Howorth, Henry Hoyle. 1874. Strictures on Darwinism. Part III. On gradual variation. [Read 28 April.] Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 4: 101-119. PDF
— — of Linn Soc. Zoolog. Vol. XI. no 56 Gulick p. 498 land-shells of Sandwich Isd wonderful var. not due to different conditions (?) Isolation, without any difference of conditions, suffices to cause new form, like Weismann views — so with Pigeons & cattle separate causes difference with condition necessary to cause.- If my view of Pangenesis is right how wonderfully complex is the greater of each part.
Gulick, John Thomas. 1872. On diversity of evolution under one set of external conditions. Journal of the Linnean Society, Zoology 11: 496-505. [CUL Unbound material] PDF
American Nat. 1873 Jan. p. 35-38 Laws of variation of Birds in U. States. Allen.
Allen, Joel Asaph. 1873. Revision of the American Tyrant Flycatchers. [Review of Coues, Studies of the Tyrannidae]. American Naturalist 7: 35-38. PDF
— — June p. 359 — On variation of beetles in sculpture in higher & colder places; & so it is with distinct species from analogous sites.
Anon. 1873. Geology of Montana. [Review of Hayden, Preliminary report...Montana...5th Annual...] American Naturalist 7: 352-360. PDF
American Nat. 1873 July p. 498. Var in Woodpecker analogous to character found in an allied species.
Trippe, T. Martin. 1873. The Golden-winged woodpecker. American Naturalist 7: 498. PDF
— — Sept. p 550- laws of var. in Birds in U. States (like those before)
Ridgway, Robert. 1873. The relation between the color and the geographical distribution of birds. American Naturalist 7: 548-555. PDF
8vo Pamphelts (830) Nägeli — very important — on closely related forms, some fixed & some variable, growing mingled or near together. Thinks this a law: supported Jordan; see 4to pamphlets Caspary who criticises this paper.
[8vo pamphlet 830 is not by Nägeli, 930 is:] Nägeli, Carl von. 1872. Das gesellschaftliche Entstehen neuer Spezies. Sitzungsberichte der Königl. Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München 2: 305-344. (2 copies) (whole issue) [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 930, 944] PDF
P. 335 similarity of alpine & arctic plants shows how little effect different conditions have
(933) Trautschold 165 on var where many individuals; see also p 176
Trautschold, Hermann Adolfovich. 1874. Die langlebigen und die unsterblichen Formen der Thierwelt. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 47: 165-183. (whole issueP [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 933] PDF
American Nat. 1873 Oct. Ridgway p. 610 — On races of Birds in the U. States p 614 action of conditions
Ridgway, Robert. 1873. On some new forms of American birds. American Naturalist 7: 602-619. PDF
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