RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstracts of Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 1860-1873. CUL-DAR75.47. Edited by John van Wyhe (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, 9.2025. RN3

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Vol. 23 Part II 1860. p. 1.

Hooker grand paper on Greenland — Glacial & other Distribution.

Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1860. Outlines of the distribution of Arctic plants. [Read 21 June.] Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 23: 251-348.

[do] Part III. 1862 p. 455

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

Murray, Andrew. 1862. On the geographical relations of the coleoptera of old Calabar. [Read 6 February.] Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 23: 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.

Bates, Henry Walter. 1862. Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon valley. Lepidoptera: Heliconidae. [Read 21 November 1861.] Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 23: 495-566. PDF

Blandford p. 605

Variability of Tanalia — intermedial vars case- analogous var.

Blanford, Henry Francis. 1862. On the specific identity of the described forms of Tanalia. [Read 19 June 1862.] Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 23: 603-610.

Hooker on Welwitschia -

whole Part. Intermediate Forms

Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1863. On Welwitschia, a new genus of Gnetaceæ. [Read 18 December 1862.] Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 23: 1-48.

Vol 24 Part I p. 138

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

Lubbock, John. 1863. On two aquatic hymenoptera, one of which uses its wings in swimming. [Read 7 May 1863.] Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 24: 135-142.

" " p. 209

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

Lubbock, John. 1863. Notes on some new or little-known species of freshwater Entomostraca. [Read 18 June 1863.] Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 24: 197-210.

" " Part 2. p. 229

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

Murray, Andrew. 1864. Monograph of the family of Nitidulariæ. [Read 2 April 1863.] Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 24: 211-414.

Vol. 25. Part I.

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

Wallace, Alfred Russel. 1865. On the phenomena of variation and geographical distribution as illustrated by the Papilionidæ of the Malayan Region. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 25 (part I): 1-71, pls. 1-8. [CUL-DAR.LIB.PER-U796] Text Image PDF

Vol. 25. Part II. p. 209

on plants of Anamallay mountains in S. India

Thomson, T. 1865. A list of the exogenous plants found in the Anamallay mountains in southern India, etc. [Read 17 April 1863 & 16 March 1865.] Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 25: 209-226.

" " p. 323 & 324

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

Bates, Henry Walter. 1865. Descriptions of fifty-two new species of Phasmidæ, from the collection of Mr. W. Wilson Saunders, with remarks on the family. [Read 15 June.] Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 25: 321-359.

" Part III. p 487

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

Lubbock, John. 1865. On the development of Chloëon (Ephemera) dimidiatum. [Read 21 December 1865.] Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 25: 477-492. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection Quarto 82] PDF

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

Baker, John Gilbert. 1868. On the geographical distribution of ferns. [Read 4 April 1867.] Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 26: 305-352.

p 354

various curious dispersal areas

Brady, George Stewardson. 1868. A monograph of the recent British Ostracoda. [Read 3 May.] Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 26: 353-495.

Vol. 27. Part 3 p. 389

Mivart on general type & Homology of Hand

Mivart, St George Jackson. 1871. On the vertebrate skeleton. [Read 21 April 1870.] Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 27: 369-392.

" 4. p 508.

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

Bentham, George. 1871. Revision of the genus Cassia. [Read 4 March 1869.] Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 27: 503-591.

Vol. 27 p. 621

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

Masters, Maxwell Tylden. 1871. Contribution to the natural history of the passifloraceæ. [Read 17 November 1870.] Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 27: 593-645.

" 28 Part I p. 3.

Triana - on Melastomataceæ, no distinct genera, no filiation in likeness — forms extremely different — like my Pigeons

Triana, J. 1873. Les Mélastomacées, etc. [Read 21 March 1867.] Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 28: 1-188, pls. I-VII.

 

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