RECORD: Darwin, C. R. and Emma Darwin n.d. Abstract of the Transactions and Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London, 1855-1857. CUL-DAR75.156. (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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Vol 3. continued of New Series

p. 162. F. Smith on form of head in worker ant.

Frederick Smith. 1855. Descriptions of some species of Brazilian ants belonging to the genera Pseudomyrma, Eciton and Myrmica (with observations on their economy by H.W. Bates). Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 2d ser. 3 no. 5: 161-169

p 126 Proc. On Sphinx moth & other Lepidoptera caught out at seas & apparently blown across the Channel.

H. Cooke. 1856. Capture of Callimorpha here in England. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 2d ser. 3 no. 8: 125-126.

p 129 of Proc. On nest of wasp being a hexagon on the extreme outside.

Frederick Smith. 1856. Nests of Hymenoptera from Port Natal. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London 2d ser. 3 no. 8: 128-130.

p 281 On Australian Lepidopt. resembling those of Britain

Edward Newman. 1856. Characters of a few Australian Lepidoptera, collected by T. R. Oxley. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 2d ser. 3 no. 8: 281-300.

Vol 4 New Series

p 275 Smith. Ants, Characters constant in whole Class nevertheless differ in certain groups.

Smith, Frederick. 1857. Revision of an essay on the British Formicidæ, published in the Transactions of the Society. [Read 7 December.] Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 2d ser. 4: 274-284. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 155] PDF

Proceedings.

p. 10 Newman on an Australian Lepidopt. blending the diurnal & nocturnal classes.

p. 37 Lubbock on connecting genera & Wollaston on a form uniting Carabus & Calosoma.

p 59 Newman on Lepidopt. wh. differ in Larvæ, yet are almost identical imagos

p 72 Newman on female moths reared in the autumn being sterile.


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