RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstracts on Variation under Nature. CUL-DAR75.136. 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 5.2021. RN2
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Variation under Nature
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
Owen, Richard. 1846. Lectures on the comparative anatomy and physiology of the vertebrate animals: delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, in 1844 and 1846. Part I. Fishes. Hunterian Lectures vol. II. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. [CUL-DAR240] PDF
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
Woolls, W. 1869. Notes on introduced plants occurring in the neighbourhood of Sydney. Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 10 (41): 35-42.
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.
Müller, Hermann. 1865. Nachträge zur Geographie der in Westfalen beobachteten Laubmoose (bis zum 1. November 1865). Verhandlungen des Botanischen Vereins Berlin Brandenburg 8: 36-41. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 404] PDF
414 do Hilgendorf on F. W. shells varying in successive state, like Fishes
Hilgendorf, Franz Martin. 1866. Über Planorbis multiformis im Steinheimer Süßwasserkalk. Monatsberichte der Königlich-Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin (1866): 474-504, 1 pl. (2 copies) [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 414, 456] PDF
416 do. Walsh — p. 238 Tenthrodinæ very variable in colour; but so [illeg]
Walsh, Benjamin Dann. 1864-1866. On the insects, coleopterous, hymenopterous and dipterous inhabiting the galls of certain species of willow. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia 3: 543-641; (1866) 6: 223-288. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 338, 416] PDF
422 do Jeitteles History of common & Black Rats
Jeitteles, Ludwig Heinrich. 1867. Ueber einige seltene und wenig bekannte Säugethiere des südöstlichen Deutschlands. (Viertes Programm der Landes-Ober-Realschule in St. Pölten.) St. Polten: Lorenz. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 422] PDF
A. Murray Geograph. Distrib. p. 152-55 on sp. lift & variation of Rein-deer (Caribou)
Murray, Andrew. 1866. The geographical distribution of mammals. London: Day & Son. (2 copies) [Darwin Library-Down] outsize. CUL-DAR.LIB.458 PDF
Philosoph. Transact. 1867 St. George Mivart p 403 — joint for ligamentum teres in head of femur variable in gorilla & orang.
Mivart, St George Jackson. 1867. On the appendicular skeleton of primates. (Offprint from: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 157: 299-429, 4 pls.) [inscribed] CUL-DAR.LIB.439 PDF
8vo Pamph. 435 Godman on Azores Birds — many slight variations.
Godman, Frederick Du Cane. 1866. Notes on the birds of the Azores. Ibis 8: 88-109, pl. III. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 435] PDF
Faivre La Var des Espece p 22 on the dimorphic condition of many water-plants with 2 forms of leaves — Ivy & other such cases.
Faivre, Ernest. 1868. La variabilité des espèces et ses limites. Paris: Germer Baillière. [inscribed] CUL-DAR.LIB.186 PDF
do p. 103 quotes Decaisne on Tsates & a [Cannioser.] 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
Bates, Henry Walter. 1868. The President's address. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 3d ser. 5 (25 January): lii-lxv. PDF
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
Barrande, Joachim. 1867. Systême silurien du centre de la Bohême. 1ère partie: Recherches paléontologiques. vol. 2. Classe des mollusques. Ordre des Céphalopodes. Prague and Paris: The author. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 466] PDF
8vo Pamph 473 Meehan on var of Epigæa — as great as man culture
Meehan, Thomas. 1868. Mitchella repens, L., a dioecious plant. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia (July): 183-184. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 473] PDF
do 512 Doubleday important on var. of Lepidoptera — larvæ different & imagos identical — varying in pairs
Doubleday, Edward. 1848. On the pterology of the diurnal Lepidoptera, especially upon that of some genera of the Heliconidae. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2d ser. 1: 379-381. [Formerly Darwin Pamphlet Collection 512] CUL-DAR.LIB.722 PDF
8vo Pamph 513 Cope Origin of Genera. Perhaps consult under Laws.
Cope, Edward Drinker. 1868. On the origin of genera. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia 20: 242-300. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 513, 621] PDF
109 Review of me Weismann on 2 or 3 coloured caterpillars on same Brood
Weismann, August. 1868. Über die Berechtigung der Darwin'schen Theorie. Ein akademischer Vortrag gehalten am 8 Juli 1868 in der Aula der Universität zu Freiburg im Breisgau. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann. ['inscribed' (actually addressed to send to Darwin in the post 'Mr. Charles Darwin Esq. Down. Bromley. Kent. S. E. England'] [Darwin Pamphlet Collection reviews 109 (subsequently moved and '109' reassigned)] CUL-DAR.LIB.676 PDF
110 Review of me. M. Wagner (1st Edit) p 27 Good Alpine vars of Butterflies
Wagner, Moritz Friedrich. 1868. Die Darwin'sche Theorie und das Migrationsgesetz der Organismen. München: Straub. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection reviews 110] PDF
p. 32 do vars of Beetles from crossing
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