RECORD: Darwin, C. R. and Emma Darwin [1869-1870]. Laws of Variation under Nature. CUL-DAR75.148. 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, 9.2025. RN4

NOTE: 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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Laws of Variation under Nature

Anthrop Review no 23 p 420 Virchow says size of tongue influence form of jaw

Rolleston Forms of An Life p xxi, reference to paper on favourable condition causing certain larval stages to be buried over, (Cope)

Rolleston, George. 1870. Forms of animal life. Oxford: Clarendon Press. PDF

Harris Entomolog. Correspondence p. 125 good case by Doubleday of variant highly variable in one locality, but not in another

Harris, Thaddeus William. 1869. Entomological correspondence of Thaddeus William Harris, M. D. Ed. by Samuel H. Scudder. Occasional papers of the Boston Society of Natural History, 1. Boston: Society of Natural History. [inscribed by editor][Darwin Library-Down] PDF

Proof that variability not inherent — Wealden evidence where we see same fact in different [illeg] of genus.

Masters on Teratology 29. Cohesion of stamens in exaggerated degree as in normal species.

Masters, Maxwell Tylden. 1869. Vegetable teratology, an account of the principal deviations from the usual construction of plants. London: The Ray Society. PDF

p 340

Increased colour in monstrosities

["The occurrence of flowers or fruits of different colours on the same plant, or even in the same cluster, is a phenomenon which does not come within the scope of the present book; the reader may, however, be referred to the excellent summary on this subject published by Mr. Darwin in his work on the 'Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication."]

373

Cases of compensation

410

Relation between monstrous & natural suppression of parts.

424

Analogous monstrosity

467

Abortion with coincident changes.

472

Formation of hairs in relation to abortion.

483

Anomalies in placentation 485.

486

Correlation

488

Compensation

Häckel

Siphonophoræ p 80 extraordinary tendency in larvæ of medusæ monstrosities & variability

Nägeli

Bd. [Botanische Mittheilungen] most important on causes of Variability — direct action & especially on intermediate forms & their distribution.

Transact. Ent. Soc 1871. Part II. p. 240 Wollaston on var. of [illeg] in ♂ Tarphius

Wollaston, Thomas Vernon. 1871. On additions to the Atlantic Coleoptera. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London [4th ser. 4] no. 2: 203-314. [CUL-DAR.LIB.PER-U452] PDF

Zoolog. Record 1869. p. 2. Middendorf on climate not governing variations in size.

[do]    220. On  var. in female sexual characters.

Review of Me (168) Bertillon on correlation of cyclops males & 6-digits.

Bertillon, Louis. 1870. Valeur de l'hypothèse du transformisme. [Read 2 June.] Bulletins de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris 2d ser. 5 (June): 488-528. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection reviews 168] PDF

8vo Pamph (685) Duval-Jouve on parallel variations — good

Duval-Jouve, Joseph. 1865. Variations parallèles des types congénères. Bulletin de la Société botanique de France 12: 196-211. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 685] PDF

[do]    (729) Bennett on mimicry in Plants — analogous Variations, found in pollen [illeg]

4to Pamphlet (187) Martens on tender indigenous plants belonging to general

Martins, Charles Frédéric. 1871. L'Hiver de 1870-1871 dans le Jardin des Plantes de Montpellier. Memoires de l'Academie des Sciences de Montpellier 7: 527-535. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection Quarto 187] PDF

Annals and Mag of N. Hist. May 1871. p. 365. On acclimatization of F. W. Articulata to sea.

Plateau, Félix Auguste Joseph. 1871. Physico-chemical investigation upon the aquatic Articulata. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7: 362-366.

Hagen Col. of Astacidæ (Harrod [illeg] ) p. 34. Laws of Compensation.

Hagen, Hermann August. 1870. Monograph of the North American Astacidae. Illustrated Catalogue of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College, 3. Cambridge, Mass:University Press. 109pp. [CUL-DAR.LIB.PER-U184] PDF

Durand Origines animales de l'Homme

Durand, Jean Pierre de Gros. 1871. Les origines animales de l'homme éclairées par la physiolgie et l'anatomie comparatives. Paris: Baillière. PDF

p. 32 Dareste on correlation

p. 90 — irregular abnormal muscle affect shape of bones


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