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The American Naturalist

May 1871.

p 166. Distrib of Land & F. W. shells in Pacific

— Frogs & Snake on Viti Isld

— 167 Land-Birds far out at sea.

Garrett, A. 1871. Distribution of animals in the South Seas. American Naturalist 5: 165-167. PDF

July 71 p 275 Gradation in Plantago in anemophious & insect food of Plantago.

Müller, Hermann. 1871. Application of the Darwinian theory to flowers and the insects which visit them. [Translated into Italian from the German with annotations by Federico Delpino. Translated from the Italian by R. L. Packard.] American Naturalist 5: 271-297. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection reviews 211] PDF

Sept. (American Assoc) (71) p 562 Cope extinct crustaceous Tortoises generalized forms.

p 593 Cope, Laws of Organic Development

Cope, Edward Drinker. 1871. The laws of organic development. American Naturalist 5: 593-605. PDF

Decem (71) p 751 to 761 Blind inhabitants of Mammoth Cave; Eyes not perfect in grey then in Red.

p 758 On Anguilla in W. Indies, cave [illeg] with large mammal, showing isld formerly connected.

Anon. (editors) 1871. The Mammoth cave and its inhabitants. American Naturalist 5: 739-761. PDF

Jan 1872

p 9-24 On Blind animals of mammoth cave — very good

Putnam, Frederic Ward. 1872. The blind fishes of the Mammoth cave and their allies. American Naturalist 6: 415-417. PDF

p 406 Cope on do

Cope, Edward Drinker. 1872. On the Wyandotte Cave and its fauna. American Naturalist 6: 406-422. PDF

p 32 Shaler on Rattle-snakes

Shaler, N. S. 1872. The rattlesnake and natural selection. American Naturalist 6: 32-37. PDF

p 305 Snapping of unborn Turtle, in egg — very [illeg] state.

Anon. (editors). 1872. [Quotation from Agassiz 1857 on snapping turtles.] American Naturalist 6: 305. PDF

307 My error on Cope's acceleration & Retardation.

Z. 1872. Error in Darwin's Origin of species. American Naturalist 6: 307-308. PDF
"In the last edition of the above work, p. 149, Mr Darwin misstates Hyatt and Cope's law of Acceleration and Retardation in the following language.
'There is another possible mode of transition, namely, through the acceleration or retardation of the period of reproduction. This has lately been insisted on by Prof. Cope and others in the United States. It is now known that some animals are capable of reproduction at a very early age, before they have acquired their perfect characters,' etc.
Prof. Cope and others have not insisted on the above proposition, which we imagine to be supported by very few facts. Their theory of acceleration and retardation states; that, while the period of reproductive maturity arrives at nearly the same age or period of the year in most individuals of a single sex and species, the portion of the developmental scale which they traverse in that time, may vary much. That an addition to the series of changes traversed by the parent, would require in another generation, a more rapid growth in respect to the series in question, which is acceleration. A falling short of accomplishing that completeness, would result from a slower growth, hence the process is termed retardation. Vast numbers of observed facts prove that this is the great law of variation towards which little progress has yet been made by students who are yet chiefly occupied with the cooperative law of natural selection.
Acceleration and retardation of the period of reproduction may possibly have occurred; but the only case in which it has been recognized in connection with the above law, has been in regard to sex. In the human species at least, differences in several characters, mostly metaphysical, seen in the sexes and it certain races, may be consequences of the earlier or later appearance of maturity in this point."

1873

June 351 Geolog formation in distinct parts of the world are often intermediate between our great stages.

Marcou, Jules. 1873. On a second edition of the geological map of the world. American Naturalist 7: 345-352. PDF

p 358 Lesquereux on relation if Tertiary & Cretaceous flora of N. America (always land)

Anon. 1873. [Review of] Hayden, Preliminary report...survey of Montana... American Naturalist 7: 352-360. PDF

July 405 A. Agassiz n Homologies of Pedicellariæ, showing that of care & not suddenly produced

Agassiz, Alexander. 1873. The homologies of Pedicellariæ. American Naturalist 7: 398-406. PDF

Aug. 456 Packard the Californian– Lepidopt be as same relation to that of E. States & Japan as with plants — My view on shells from Polar regions

Packard, Alpheus Spring Jr. 1873. On the distribution of Californian moths. American Naturalist 7: 453-458. PDF

November p 695 Struggle for existence between allied species with introduction of new species.

Barrett, Moses. 1873. On the migration of certain animals as influenced by civilization. American Naturalist 7: 693-695. PDF

1874

Jan. 21 Stockton Hough on developments of sex in Plants

- proportion in maize plants — Disputes Meehan

Stockton-Hough, John. 1874. On the relationship between development and the sexual condition in plants. American Naturalist 8: 19-30. PDF

Feb. p 108 Ridgways many American water Birds differ from European representation in rump spotted instead of pure white.

Ridgway, Robert. 1874. Notes upon American water birds. American Naturalist 8: 108-111. PDF

March. 190 Lesquereux — Land plants, Sigillaria in Cincinnati group of Lower Silurian

Lesquereux, Leo. 1874. Remains of land plants in the Lower Silurian. American Naturalist 8: 190-191. PDF