RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. [Abstract of Annals and Magazine of Natural History 1869-1871]. CUL-DAR75.33. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

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33

Annals & Mag of Nat Hist.

1869

p 96 – 17 sp of Fossil Horses in N. America

[O. C. Marsh. Notice of a new and diminutive species of Fossil horse.]

p 397 Fossil Hippopotamus in Madagascar.

[M. Milne-Edwards. On the zoological discoveries recently made in Madagascar by M. Alfred Grandidier.]

p 436 Sars on correspondence, not identity, of marine animals in Arctic & Antarctic seas.

[M. Sars. Remarks on the distribution of animal life in the depths of the sea.]

Jul p 76 Tadpole of newt breeding

[M. J. Jullien. Tadpoles of Lissotriton punctatus reproducing the Species.]

p 98 Heer on fossil plants of North

[Oswald Heer. The last discoveries in the extreme north.]

p 130 On extinct Birds of Mauritius. A. Milne Edwards – great distinct from African Fauna

[M. Alphonse Milne-Edwards. Observations on the ancient fauna of the Mascarene Islands.]

p 139 Cæileæ (Leydig) inosculating affinities, nearly Amphibian yet allied to Reptiles & Fish

[M. F. Leydig. On the Cæileæ.]

p 301 Wollaston on Coleoptera of St. Helena, great distinct from the northern archetypes

[T. Vernon Wollaston. On the coleoptera of St. Helena.]

1870

April p. 283 Sessile cirripede in Lias.

[Harry G. Seeley. On zoocapsa dolichorhamphia, a Sessile Cirripede from the Lias of Lyme Regis]

p 308 Pouchet on 2 forms of nests with Swallows.

[M. A. Pouchet. On the transformation of the nests of the house-martin (Hirundo unbica, Linn.)

p 452 A Milne Edwards on fossil Secretary Bird – Remarks in this case & that of Flamingoes that groups into small, [once] large

[M. A. Milne-Edwards. Observations in the ornithological fauna of the Bourbonnais during the middle tertiary period.]

Jul p. 34 Lankester, excellent paper on Homology.

[E. Ray Lankester. On the use of the term Homology in modern zoology, and the distinction between homogenetic and homoplastic agreements.]

p 116 Mivart on do – Both important.

[St. George Mivart. On the use of ther term "Homology."]

p 385, 387 Intermediate coral; the 2 great groups of Tabulata & Perforata, no longer tenable

[W. Saville Kent. On the existing coral closely allied to the Palæozoic genus Favosites; with remarks on the affinities of the Tabulata.]

p 431 on difference, varying on opposite sides of Suez

[Robert M'Andrew. Report on the testaceous mollusca obtained during a dredging excursion in the Gulf of Suez in the months if February and March 1869.]

1871

Feb. p 108 on shells of Amazon Valley, high up Estuary. Woodward.

[Henry Woodward. The tertiary shells of the Amazons Valley.]

March p 246 on metamorphoses of Siredon.

[E. D. Cope. On Siredon-metamorphoses.]

May p 363 Sea-water very little injurious on Coleoptera & Hemiptera

[Félix Plateau. Physico-chemical investigation upon the aquatic Articulata.]

Jun p 417 Veltmann on Longevity opposed to N. Selection

[W. Veltmann. The descendance-theory considered from some special points of view.]

July p 36 Grimm on parthenogenesis of Chironomus

[Oscar von Grimm. On the agamic reproduction of a species of Chironomus, and its development from the unfecundated egg.]

Aug p 125 Dumas on monarch caterpillar requiring oxide & Zinc for growth.

[M. Dumas. On the constitution of milk and blood.]

p 139 on Teeth in Pig tendency to be rudimentary & variable & falling out

[J. E. Gray. On the development of the teeth in Phacocchœrus æthiopicus.]

Sept p 206 Blyth on forms of ear very governed by animals in forests or open country

[Edward Blyth. The supposititious "Bos(?) Pegasus" of the late Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith.]

p 216 Canestrini on embryological form of certain fish in relation to extinct forms.

[M. Canestrini. On the reproduction of the lophobranchs, and on the filiation of certain genera.]

Oct p. 294 on fore limb of Macropus more developed than Hind – so with [illeg], U. States letter

[H. A. Pagenstecher. On the embryo of Macropus major.]

Novr p 369 On Blind cave animals, Cope.

[Professor Cope. Life in the Wyandotte Cave.]

374 Phosphorescence of Eggs of Glow-worms

[M. Jousset. On the phosphorescence of the eggs of the common glowworm

381 Distrib.  of F. Water fishes in N. Africa

[Col. R. L Playfair; M. Letourneux. Memoir on the hydrographical system and the freshwater fish of Algeria.]


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