RECORD: Darwin, C. R. and Emma Darwin n.d. Abstracts of the Transactions and Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London, 1842-1855. CUL-DAR75.155. (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
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. 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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First loose numbers each marked with a cross.
My No. 1. p 195 & 199 on Hybrid insects Vol. 3. 1842
J. O. Westwood. 1842. Description of a hybrid Smerinthus, with remarks on hybridism in general. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 3 no. 3: 195-202.
p 185-190 On Hornet's nest.
George Newport. 1842. On the habits, and on the structure of the nests of gregarious Hymenoptera, particularly those of the hive bee and hornet. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 3 no. 3: 183-190.
My No 2. p 238 Westwood on aberrant groups
J. O. Westwood. 1843. On Evania and some allied genera of Hymenopterous insects. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 3 no. 4: 237-278.
p. 327 Waterhouse on local vars. of curuleos in Philippines
G. R. Waterhouse. 1843. Descriptions of the species of the Curculionideous genus Pachyrhynchus Sch, collected by H. Cuming in the Philippine Islands. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 3 no. 4: 310-327.
My No 3. p 271 Westwood on pertinacious retention of trivial characters throughout a whole group
J. O. Westwood. 1843. On Evania and some allied genera of Hymenopterous insects. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 3 no. 4: 237-278.
My No 4 p 60 On butterflies not pairing in confinement.
W. W. Saunders. 1850-1851. Descriptions of four new Dipterous insects from Central and Northern India. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London 2d ser. 1: 16-17.
My No 5 p 298. Westwood says it is a rule that female insects offer the best characters i.e. have been less modified
J. O.Westwood. 1847. Description of a new genus of lamellicorn beetles from India, belonging to the family Rutelidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 4 no. 5: 296-300.
New Series
Vol 1.
p. 135 On blind cave-insects
N. Wallich. 1850-1851. Specimen faunae subterraneae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 2d ser. 1: 134-157.
p. 17 of Proceedings on each of Channel I's having rather different fauna.
S. S. Saunders. 1850-1851. Some new aculeate Hymenoptera from Epirus. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London 2d ser. 1: 16-17.
p 37 of Proc. on the manner in which different vars open the flowers of the Snap-dragon
p 147 On cave insects.
p 87-89 of Proc. On the relation of bees, mice & cats.
H. W. Newman. 1850-1851. On the habits of the Bombinatrices. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London 2d ser. 1: 87-92. Darwin famously referred to this in Origin, p. 74.
p 253 on some anomalous genera found all over the world
p 120 of Proc. remarks on classification by Dr Conte
J. L. LeConte. 1850-1851. (Pselaphidae). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London 2d ser. 1: 118-126.
p 130 of Proc — of British insects selecting & feeding on a introduced plants
J. B. Hearsey. 1850-1851. [Letter]. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London 2d ser. 1: 129-130.
p 140 Do — Facts against Agassiz' classification
p 152 Do — Duthier's on the sting of Hymenoptera
p 164 Do reference to respiration of spiders
Vol. 2
p 27 of Proc On insects coming to light-houses
p 156 On drones of the hive bee being killed
J. G. Desborough. 1852-1853. On the duration of life in the queen, drone and worker of the Honey bee. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 2d ser. 2: 145-171.
p 125 of Proc. On the jaws of the Strepsiptera are rudimentary in the male & entirely wanting in female
H. R. Goeppert and F. Cohn. 1852-1853. Report of a lecture by Professor von Siebold on Strepsiptera at a meeting of the Silesian Gesellschaft für vaterländische Cultur at Breslau. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London 2d ser. 2: 124-126.
Vol. 3
p 97 F. Smith on certain ants which do & do not Spin a coccoon, variable; & on variation in pubescence
F. Smith. 1854. Essay on the genera and species of British Formicidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 2d ser. 3: 95-135.
p 157 An ant wh. always builds in the nests of Termite and might thus become parasitic.
F. Smith. 1855. Descriptions of some species of Brazilian ants belonging to the genera Pseudomyrma, Eciton and Myrmica. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 2d ser. 3 no. 4: 156-160.
p. 204 Westwood on some anomalous in S. America allied to those of Australia.
J. O. Westwood. 1855. Descriptions of some new species of exotic Lucanidae. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 2d ser. 3: 197-208.
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