RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Emma Darwin. n.d. Abstract of Laws of Variation. CUL-DAR75.149. (John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. 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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Laws of Variation

Allen, Mammals & Birds of Florida p. 220 variation of highly developed parts

p 205 in number of tail-feathers in Parts of high functional importance like Bats (p 221) of Picus do not vary, p. 221 & length wing feather in Birds which fly much

J. A. Allen. 1870-71. On the mammals and winter birds of East Florida, etc. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, vol. 2: 161-450.

8vo pamphlet (739)

case of analogous variation in Buds of Fraxinus

Meehan, Thomas. 1871. (Buds of Fraxinus quadrangulata). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia 23 (June): 110-111(-120). [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 739] PDF

(755)

case of monstrosities correlated with six-fingers.

Roujou, Anatole. 1872. Note sur quelques analogies du type humain avec celui de très-anciens mammifères. [Read 18 January.] Bulletins de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris 2d ser. 7: 44-122. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 755] PDF

(760)

Cope good case of var. in number of digits & allied species present different numbers good.

Cope, Edward Drinker. 1871. The method of creation of organic forms. [Read 15 December.] Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 12: 229-263. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 760] PDF

4to Pam (202)

Hoffmann on Variation: volume on condition wh do not cause it.

Hoffmann, Hermann. 1872. Ueber Variation. Botanische Zeitung 30: 529-539. (whole issue) [Darwin Pamphlet Collection Quarto 202] PDF

(209)

Edwards curious case of seasonal & other dimorphism in a Papilio of N. America

Edwards, William Henry. [Butterfly plates Papilio I-III; Grapta IV-V of above]. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection Quarto 209]

Riley 4th Report on noxious insects p. 35 power of light on colour of Insects.

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

American Nat. Aug. (71) p. 366

greater length of Beak & Tail of Florida Birds, explained by greater peripheral circulation.

Coues E. 1871. [Review of] Allen, On the mammals and winter birds of East Florida. American Naturalist 5 no. 6: 364-373

791 8vo Pamphlet

Czerny on change of external membrane into mucous membrane by grafting in first place.

Czerny, Vinzenz. 1872. Ueber die Beziehungen der Chirurgie zu den Naturwissenschaften. (Inaugural lecture delivered 14 June 1872.) Freiburg: Fr. Wagner'sche Buchhandlung. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 791] PDF

789 & 90 do

var. in no. of tail feathers in species & in allied species

Marshall, William. 1872. Beobachtungen über den Vogelschwanz. Niederländisches Archiv für Zoologie 1: 194-210, 1 pl. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 789] PDF

Jeitteles, Ludwig Heinrich. 1871-1872. Die vorgeschichtlichen Alterthümer der Stadt Olmütz und ihrer Umgebung. Vienna: the author. (from: Mittheilungen der anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien 1 (1871): 127-136, 238-242; 2 (1872): 18-32, 53-64, 86-91, 130-136, 162-184, 233-249, 274-288.) [second part in Darwin Pamphlet Collection 790] PDF

803

Martins — many water plants with ribbon-like leaves

Martins, Charles Frédéric. 1873. Un naturaliste philosophe: Lamarck, sa vie et ses oeuvres. Revue des deux mondes 104: 142-177. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 803] Text

American Nat. Sept. 1872 p. 513 to end

 very curious paper by Scudder on 2 forms of Butterflies

Scudder S. H. 1872. The curious history of a butterfly. American Naturalist 6 no. 9: 513-518.

Journal Linn Soc. Vol. 77 part 4. p. 508

Bentham on tendency of certain S. American Plant to absorption of leaves as in Australia & N Africa

Bentham, G. 1871. Revision of the genus Cassia. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 27 no. 4: 503-591.

do p. 510

on varieties of same sp. different in different countries (very good)

Masters p. 621

on difference of congenital & acquired character, the latter appearing later in life.

Masters, Maxwell Tylden. 1871. Contribution to the natural history of the Passifloraceæ. [Read 17 November 1870.] Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 27: 593-645. [CUL Unbound material]

Review of me (236)

Miacario, quotes from many very important on effects of the Bones & Vessels

Macario. M. 1875. Transformisme. Nice: Caisson & Mignon.

8vo 876

Comber on distribution of Brit plants in relation to size of genera. Very good

Comber, Thomas. 1874. The dispersion of British plants. Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire 26: 47-74. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 876] PDF

904

Meehan structure of plant affected by a fungus

Meehan, Thomas. 1874. Change of habit through fungoid agency. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia 26: 146. (whole issue) [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 904] PDF

Reviews (245)

Würtenberger — on wide ranging fossils difficult to classify with ammonites to central which retain primal character — to external whorls very first. — character transmitted to earlier & earlier ages. & explains them by selection. — will account for acceleration

Würtenberger, L. 1873. Neuer Beitrag zum geologischen Beweise der Darwin'schen Theorie. Das Ausland 6-10, 25-29.

 


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