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RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstracts of the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 1854-1860. CUL-DAR75.46. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/).

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Kees Rookmaaker, edited by John van Wyhe 7.2014, 9.2025. 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.

(Linnean Transactions) Linnean Transact.

Vol. 21

p. 187 Bunbury on genera common to Europe & La Plata —

Bunbury, Charles James Fox. 1854. Notes on the vegetation of Buenos Ayres and the neighbouring districts. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 21: 185-198.

p. 188 names of introduced thistles & Clover

189 Remarks that shows not created, indiscriminately where best adapted to.

191. not much analogy of La Plata & S. United States

― Extraordinary difference with C of Good Hope — not much novelty, compared with C Good Hope — it is like comparing Sicily & St. Helena. — La Plata (p. 197) a dwindled state of Brazilian

(n. 2) 197 case of only 2 species of Acacia at Cape & yet most abundant in individuals.

234 Curtis says in Heteromera nearly all other Beetles are represented

Curtis, John. 1854. Remarks relative to the affinities and analogies of natural objects, more particularly of Hypocephalus, a genus of Coleoptera. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 21: 227-236.

Vol. 23 1860 — Part I.

Lubbock p. 29 case of possible gradation in breathing by skin

Lubbock, John. 1860. On the distribution of the tracheae in insects. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 23: 23-50.

p. 69-72 Macdonald. Oceanic — freely-swimmig Gasteropods Larva of Shore-forms distribution

Macdonald, John Denis. 1860. Further observations on the metamorphosis of Gasteropoda, and the affinities of certain genera, with an attempted natural distribution of the principal families of the order. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 23: 69-80.

p. 64 on Dichogamy in worms. (good to collect those cases analogous to)

p. 87. Oliver on small anomalies Order of plants

Oliver, Daniel. 1860. On Sycopsis. [Read 15 March.] Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 23: 83-89, pl. VIII. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection Quarto 55] PDF

p. 174. Lubbock on intermediate varieties & gradation — on an ancient group having more distinct forms. p 176 on Variability of sexual charcters & displayed in same part as specific differences

Lubbock, John. 1860. On some oceanic Entomostraca collected by Captain Toynbee. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 23: 173-191, pl. XXIX.

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