RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of [Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 1860-1873] CUL-DAR75.47. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 5.2021. RN1

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Linnean Transactions

Vol. 23 Part II 1860. p. 1.

Hooker grand paper on Greenland – Glacial & other Distribution.

[Joseph D. Hooker. Outlines of the distribution of Arctic plants. (Read 21 June 1860): 251-348]

[do] Part III. 1862 p. 455

A. Murray on Relation of Beetles of Africa & S. America

[Andrew Murray. On the geographical relations of the coleoptera of old Calabar. (Read 6 February 1862): 449-455]

[do] [do] p. 495

Bates great Paper on Tropical forms. On minute forms. see my Review from abstract on crossing of Variation – on Rudiments.

[Henry W. Bates. Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon Valley. Lepidoptera: Heliconidæ. (Read 21 November 1861): 495-566]

Blandford p. 605

Variability of Tanalia – intermedial vars case- analogous var.

[Henry F. Blandford. On the specific identity of the described forms of Tanalia. (Read 19 June 1862): 603-610]

Hooker on Welwitschia -

whole Part. Intermediate Forms

[J. D. Hooker. On Welwitschia, a new genus of Gnetaceæ. (Read 18 December 1862): 1-48]

Vol 24 Part I p. 138

Lubbock on an aquatic Hymenoptera, with nothing showing that it is aquatic in habits.

[J. Lubbock. On two aquatic hymenoptera, one of which uses its wings in swimming. (Read 7 May 1863): 135-142]

[do] [do] p. 209

Lubbock Crust & Insecta separated before number of segments, fixed – Body of Lobster corresponds to young & not mature ages.

[J. Lubbock. Notes on some new or little-known species of freshwater entomostraca. (Read 18 June 1863): 197-210]

[do] [do] Part 2. p. 229

A. Murray. On relation of insects of S. America & W. Africa – very different conclusion from Hookers – [monotypic] genera not […ence]- Sporadic species, few in numbers except in metropolis of group. – Large genera generally [illeg]

[Andrew Murray. Monograph of the family of Nitidulariæ. (Read 2 April 1863): 211-414]

Vol. 25. Part I.

Wallace on Variation & Distribution of Lepidoptera in Malay Archipelago. – good on Distribution

[A. R. Wallace. On the phenomena of variation and geographical distribution as illustrated by the papilionidæ of the Malayan region. (Read 17 March 1864): 1-71]

Vol. 25. Part II. p. 209

on plants of Anamallay mountains in S. India

[T. Thomson. A list of the exogenous plants found in the Anamallay mountains in southern India, etc. (Read 17 April 1863 & 16 March 1865): 209-226]

[do] [do] p. 323 & 324

Bates on extreme adoptive modification in Phasmidæ & on difficulty in deficiency genera - & in persistence of certain characters

[H. W. Bates. Descriptions of fifty-two new species of phasmidæ, etc. (Read 15 June): 321-359]

[do] Part III. p 487

Lubbock on great change of structure & Habits in butterfly & caterpillar requiring dormant period for so great a change

[John Lubbock. On the development of Chloëon (Ephemere) dimidiatum. (Read 21 December 1865): 477-492]

Vol. 26. Part I. p. 342

on Ferns of Japan not allied to those of Himalaya. – p. 343 those of S. Africa not very peculiar. p. 349 Malaya Arch to Metropolis

[J. G. Baker. On the geographical distribution of ferns. (Read 4 April 1867): 305-352]

p354

various curious dispersal areas

[George S. Brady. A monograph of the recent British Ostracoda. (Read 3 May): 353-495]

Vol. 27. Part 3 p. 389

Mivart on general type & Homology of Hand

[St. George Mivart. On the vertebrate skeleton. (Read 21 April 1870): 369-392]

[do] 4. p 508.

On Distribution / 410 on diversity of Divergence of character in distant countries

[G. Bentham. Revision of the genus cassia. (Read 4 March 1869): 503-591]

Vol. 27 p. 621

Master on difference of congenital & Acquired character; this later develop late in life

[T. M. Masters. Contribution to the natural history of the passifloraceæ. (Read 17 November 1870): 593-645]

[do] 28 Part I p. 3.

Triana - on Melastomataceæ, no distant genera, no [affiliation] in likeness – forms extremely different – like my Pigeons

[J. Triana. Les Mélastomacées, etc. (Read 21 March 1867): 1-188]

 

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