RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Philosophical Transactions. CUL-DAR75.51b. 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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1863 Part I. p. 39 Owen on 2 free unguiculate digits to wing of archeopteryx

p. 45 on characters of the bird being embryonic. like change in tail in Homocercal & Heterocercal Fish

[Richard Owen. 1863. On the archeopteryx of von Meyer, with a description of the fossil remains of a long-tailed species, from the lithographic stone of Solenhofen.]

1866 Part. I p. 113, 140, 152, 174 on affinity of Birds to mammals & Reptiles – Dinornis & Apteryx are Struthious old & generalised form.

[William Kitchen Parker. 1866. On the structure and development of the skull in the ostrich tribe.]

1867 Part. II p. 603 Young of Trionyx shown numerous teeth

p 626 Gunther on Hatteria of N. Zealand part a strong cultivation of low & high Elements- abnormal from Muscular – few Reptiles in Islands & mostly cosmopolitan.

[Albert Gunther. 1867. Contribution to the anatomy of hatteria (rhynchocephalus, Owen).]

1869 Part II p 549 Owen on relation of milk to under teeth in Horse & Hipparion

p 559 on fossil Horses of America 563, 572.

[Richard Owen. 1869. Description of the cavern of Bruniquel, and its organic contents.]

1870 Part I p 75 on Cameloid fossil America

[Richard Owen. 1870. On remains of a large extinct lama (palauchenia magna, ow.) from quaternary deposits in the valley of Mexico.]

1871. Part II. p 513 Gunther on ceratodus – scanty representation & wider distribution of a type is some proof of extreme antiquity?

p 561 The Dipnoi to much remarkable case of prehistoric in all vertebrates

Ceratodus a genus from Mesozoic to present era.

[Albert C. L. G. Gunther. 1871. Description of ceratodus, a genus of ganoid fishes, recently discovered in rivers of Queensland, Australia.]

1873 Part I. p. 21. Kowalevsky, only familiar exuberantly developed have any chance of leaving progeny behind them.

p. 43 no link between [Paridigitata] and Imparidigitata ungulates either living or extinct.

 

p. 74 Refers struggle to the inflexibility of the organism of some beings, so that they cd not become adapted & were extinguished.

p. 76 gradation of characters

[W. Kowalevsky. 1873. On the osteology of the hyopotamidæ.]

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