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Variation under Nature

8vo pamphlets (937) p 116 Stolicza on a hill var of from differing in structure: others wd call species

American Nat. 1874. April. p. 197 Ridgway – variation in notes of same sp. of Birds – dev of nesting – p. 201 Otus in Nevada habitually use old nests of Magpie

[Robert Ridway. On local variations in the notes and nesting habits of birds.]

American Nat. May 1874. p 260 Scudder polymorphic Papilio ajax

[Samuel H. Scudder. The natural history of a polymorphic butterfly.]

Transact. N. Zealand Institute vol. 4 (71) p. 256 Kirk, Cardonian present more variable them in Grt. Britain – other vars. of other plants resemble mountain vars. of Britain

[T. Kirk. A comparison of the indigenous floras of the British Islands and New Zealand.]

p. 284. [illeg] on the naturalised plants – 171 species! – good remarks & list

p. 298 Kirk on introduced grasses, some native hold their ground

p 372 Hutton – Blue Duck strictly aboriginal & shows no fear about its young

The Doctrine of Descent. O. Schmidt p. 94 – good sentence on variability of sponges, including spicule

Hackel. Kalkschwämme vol. I. p. 383 Jul. variability of Sponges p. 385

Gould, Introduction to Birds of Grt Britain p. 16 – slight difference if Birds of Britain & Europe & on islands (Sharpe make species of)

Forel, Les Fourmis p. 14, 19 variability of – males clearly similar transition form in different nests

8vo Pamph    (943)  Gentry-Larœ climbing plants on which they feed

(944) Nägeli variation of Hieracium, in Alps, most important.

(945) Hyatt on changes in ammonite

(976) Gaudry, extreme variability of some Miocene & Eocene mammals

(981) Rutimeyer – changes in animal world in Switzerland since presence of Man – I suppose there ought to be looked to again

Reviews of me (250) abstract of Staudinger on various forms of variation in Butterflies

4to Pamphlet (237) Hoffmann, Bol. Tertiary – Proportion of plants which varied chiefly by reversion in colour when cultivated in very poor soil - Salt used

(238) Flights of Butterflies to Bermuda – 600 miles across sea