RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Variation under Nature. CUL-DAR75.136. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 5.2021. RN1

NOTE: References:

1866. R. Owen. On the anatomy of vertebrates. vol. 1. London: Longmans, Green and Co.

1869. W. Woolls. Notes on introduced plants occurring in the neighbourhood of Sydney. Journal of the Linnean Society, Botany, vol. 10: 35-42.

1866. A. Murray. The geographical distribution of mammals. London: Day and Son, Limited.

1867. St. George Mivart. On the skeleton of the primates. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London, vol. 157:299-429.

1868. H. W. Bates. The President's address. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (25 January): LV-LXIX.

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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Zoolog. Record 64. p. 61 great var. of hawks in 1st plumage

Owen's anat. of Vert Vol. 1 1866 543 great var. in cod fish of adrenal glands

Geolog. Journal vol 89. p. 39 Majority of wide-wandering Cretaceous Echinodermata are highly variable. Dr. Duncan.

Linn. Journal X no 41 Bot p. 41. on indigenous & introduced var. of same plants

Günther Record 1866 p 40 on distribution & crossing & history of Rats

─ p. 45 A Cessus wrongly ca

404 8vo Pamphl. Müller on Ant & [illeg] on their gradation, & on variability in detail of mosses, undertaken to prove track of Origin.

414 do          Hilgendorf on F. W. shells varying in successive state, like Fishes

416 do. Walsh – p. 238 Tenthrodinæ very variable in colour; but so [illeg]

422 do Jeiteller History of common & Black Rats

A. Murray Geograph. Distrib. p. 152-55 on sp. lift & variation of Rein-deer (Caribou)

Philosoph. Transact. 1867 St. George Mivart p 403 – joint for ligamentum teres in head of femur variable in gorilla & orang.

8 vo Pamph. 435 Godman on Azores Birds – many slight variations.

Faivæ La. Var des Espece p 22 on the dimorphic condition of many water-plants with 2 forms of leaves – Ivy & other such cases.

do p. 103 quotes Decaisne on Tsates & a [illeg] of which to supposed species change in single than in the garden (crossing?)

Transact. Ent. Soc. 1868 Part V. p. LXIV Bates address on variability of Longicorn in what are considered important part: have great multiplication of genera & difficulty of definition

Annales & Mag. of Nat. Hist 1868 Aug p. 171. Sickel. variability of Polistes.

8vo Pamph 466 Barrande on great variation in position of siphon in Cephalopods with advance of age – yet thought important

8vo Pamph 473 Meehan on var of Epigæa – as great as man culture

do 512          Doubleday important on var. of Lepidoptera – larvæ different & imagos identical – varying in pairs

8vo Pamph 513 Cope Origin of Genera. Perhaps consult under Laws.

109 Review of me Weismann on 2 or 3 coloured caterpillars on same Brood

110 Review of me. M. Wagner (1st Edit) p 27 Good Alpine vars of Butterflies

p. 32 do vars of Beetles from crossing


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