RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Variation under nature. [Abstracts of American Naturalist et al 1875-1880]. CUL-DAR75.121. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

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Variation under nature

American Nat.

Sept. 1875 p. 506 to end

Review of Allen on Variability of squirrels in different geographical regions

[Anon. 1875. [Review of] R. Ridgeway and J. A. Allen, Geographical variation in color among squirrels. American naturalist 9 no. 9 (September): 506-509. PDF]

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Oct. p. 542

on variation of fossil shells same as recent shells of the same species Dr Dawson

[Dawson, John William. 1875. Vice president's address. American Naturalist 9 no. 10 (October): 529-552. PDF]

Powell, Exploration of Colorado

p 220 Variability & Transition state of certain species of Geomys.

p. 243 — still stronger with Thomomys — var. connected with their geographical range

[Powell, John Wesley. 1875. Exploration of the Colorado River of the West, and its tributaries: explored in 1869, 1870, 1871, and 1872. Washington: Government Printing Office. [CUL-DAR240] PDF]

Wallace Geograph Distribution p. 24

Variation in migration of swallows

[Wallace, Alfred Russel. 1876. The geographical distribution of animals. London: Macmillan & Co. 2 vols. [inscribed] CUL-DAR.LIB.652 vol. 1. Text link Image PDF vol. 2. Text link Image PDF]

8vo Pamph 1050 p. 12 & 18

Bedriaga. Vars. of Lizard near Naples, more individual variability, opposed to Einer.

[Bedriaga, Jacques von. 1876. Die Faraglione-Eidechse und die Entstehung der Farben bei den Eidechsen. Eine Erwiderung an Prof. Eimer. Heidelberg: Winter. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 1050]]

[do] 1068

Marrat -gut var. in Nassa - & interract country links

[Marrat, Frederick Price. 1876. On the variation of sculpture exhibited in the shells of the genus Nassa. Liverpool: Meek & Thomas. 8pp. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 1068, 1413]]

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Fatio — variability in Fishes — related to larger genera on change of position of eyes.

[Fatio, Victor. 1877. De la variabilité de l'espèce à propos de quelques poissons. Bibliothèque universelle et revue Suisse. Archives des sciences physiques et Naturelles 58: 2: 185-217. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 1131] PDF]

J. Scott Manual of Opium p. 46 &c

The vars bred true in beans on [Jourdans] cases

[Scott, John. 1877. Manual of opium husbandry: for the use of officers in the government agencies of Behar and Benares. Calcutta: Bengal Sectretariat Press. [inscribed] CUL-DAR.LIB.579 PDF]

Trans. Ent. Soc. 1876. p. V. p. XLIX

Melanic vars in N. recent [illeg] near Manchester. p. L. var [illeg]

[Anon. 1876. Evolution of species [overview of recent literature]. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London 1876: xlv-l. [CUL-DAR.LIB.PER-U480] PDF]

American Nat. 1876 p. 626 Oct.

Allen on variation of mammal in range — variation very different in different groups — nil in some — in general manner in others

Laws of variation in size — Largest when condition most favorable.

[Allen, Joel Asaph. 1876. Geographical variation among North American mammals, especially in respect to size. American naturalist 10 no. 10 (October): 625-628. [CUL-DAR.LIB.PER-U1590] PDF]

 

[do] Nov. p. 687

Reference to Dr Christ on variation of Rosa in Flora

 

No. 24

I suppose 1875 —

[1876. Anon. Botanical papers in recent periodicals [Dr. Christ, of Basel, Varieties of Rosa]. American naturalist 10 (November): 687. PDF]

Riley, Noxious Insects 9th Report.

p. 24. var. in Veins of Saw Fly

[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 40 modification in Potato Bug is spreading

 

 

p 57 variation

Cosmos I 1877

p 117

variability of Rubus striking artch

8vo Pamphlet

(1209)

Edwards on clove linking species or rears or vars of Butterflies — also on do (1217)

[Edwards, William Henry. 1877. Pacific Coast Lepidoptera no. 23.—Description of a new species of Catocala, and a list of the Californian notes on the genus Catocala, with descriptions of new species. (separate. 2 pp. print not in journal) [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 1209]
Edwards, William Henry. 1876. Pacific Coast Lepidoptera no. 19.—Notes on a singular variety of the larva of Halesidota Agassizii, Packd. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 7: 128-130. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 1217] PDF]

Errera Fecundation des Fleurs on variation of [Pentstamen] 1879 p. 120 &c.

[Errera, Léo and Gevaert, Gustave. 1878. Sur la structure et les modes de fécondation des fleurs. Par L.E. et G. Gevaert. lére Partie. Gand: C. Annot-Braeckman. (from: Sur la structure et les modes de fécondation des fleurs et en particulier sur l'hétérostylie du Primula elatior. Bulletin de la Société royale de botanique de Belgique 17: 38-181, 246.) link ) [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 2207][Darwin's copy of the pamphlet not found, CCD26:99. Inscribed to Francis Darwin] CUL-DAR.LIB.181 PDF]

Kosmos 110 Jahrgang 1879

p. 61 Variation of Land-shells

[Anon. 1879. Die Urtypen der Insekten. Kosmos 5 no. 1: 61-62. [CUL-DAR.LIB.PER-U207]] PDF

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p. 90 Hilgendorf good on famous case of Helix planorbis.

[Hilgendorf, Franz Martin. 1879. Sur Streitfrage des Planorbis multiformis. Kosmos 5 no. 2: 90-99. [CUL-DAR.LIB.PER-U208] PDF]

Proc. Zoolog. Soc. 1878 p. 892

Sir V. Brooke on variability of Horn of Deer & Law of compensation

[Brooke, Victor. 1878. On the classification of the Cervidæ, with a synopsis of the existing species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 46 no. 4 (19 November): 898-928, pl. LV. [CUL-DAR.LIB.PER-U1426] PDF]

The American Nat. 1878 p. 37

Variation in nests of Birds

[Brewer, T. M. 1878. Variation in the nests of the same species of birds. American Naturalist 12 (January): 35-40. PDF]

[do] 1880

p. 278 April

On variability in length of proboscis of Bee

Cook, A. J. 1880. The tongue of the honey bee. American Naturalist 14 no. 4 (April): 271-280. [CUL-DAR.LIB.PER-U1629] PDF

4to Pamphlet

295

Morse change of Prehistoric shells

[Morse, Edward Sylvester. 1879. The shell mounds of Omori Japan. Memoirs of the Science Department, University of Tokio, Japan 1: 1-36, 18 pls. Tokyo: The University. Offprint. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection Quarto 295] PDF]

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303

Hoffmann on Anagallis caerulea

[Hoffmann, Hermann. 1879. Culturversuche. Botanische Zeitung 37: 177-187, 193-207, pl. III. (whole issue) [Darwin Pamphlet Collection Quarto 303] PDF]


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