RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. [Abstracts of 8vo Pamphlets]. CUL-DAR75.63. 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. Corrections and editing by John van Wyhe 5.2025. 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. The catalogue numbers to Darwin's Pamphlet Collection are given here in bold to distinguish them from page numbers cited by Darwin.
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7. Walton on Alpacas, nothing – Angry Dog- Hairs of male & female different good
[Walton, William. 1841. A memoir on the naturalization of the Alpaca. Printed for the Natural History Society of Liverpool. London: Smith, Elder and Co. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 7]]
9. Forbes a sort of Rotation at bottom of sea in marine animals
[Forbes, Edward. 1844. On the light thrown on geology by submarine researches: being the substance of a communication made to the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Friday evening, the 23d February 1844. Edinburgh: [A. & C. Black]. (from: Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (April)). [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 9]]
" on widest ranges & living at greatest depths longest survivors Important.
" on migration of molluscs; new species arrive at Isle of Man
11 Shuckard curious remarks on intermediate small [illeg] with radiating affinities.
[Shuckard, William Edward. 1841. On the Aulacidae, a family of Hymenoptera pupivora; and that Trigonalys is one of its components: with the description of a British species of this genus, and incidental remarks upon their collateral affinities. The Entomologist 1: 115-125. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 11]]
16 Forbes Ægean Report – p. 145 gregarious species not gregarious in Ægean species now dwarfs formerly larger.
[Forbes, Edward. 1843. Report on the Mollusca and Radiata of the Ægean Sea, and on their distribution, considered as bearing on geology. Report of the 13th meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science held at Cork, pp. 130-193. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 16]]
152 Shells of same species smaller in W. Mediterranean then in East.
154 In each zone of depth the species have their maximum in that zone with few stragglers from other zones.
171 The species which range far in depth range far horizontally or have representative species in distant points
173 – increase of shells alters nature bottom & so & from other causes species change.
173 on individual maximum in depth; one species replace each other thus, if I understand rightly [Wyle] table given of illustration: together they tend to make a band of equal thickness; all this refers to the meeting of two species on the borders of their range in depth.
Will it illustrate changes in time? For if so it shows that the new species is an offset from that existing old one. Probably not only fully occupies economy of nature.
174 Genera have in same zones their maximums of development, showing that same constitution runs through many species.
175 Glacial theory, representative species of northern forms in depths of Mediterranean; I think identical species in depths trend Great Britain.
175 on rarity producing extinction; & on species formerly rare now common
177 Littona zone richest & wd leave fewest fossils in formations.
18 Redfield on currents with icebergs in N. & S Hemisphere – running N. W & S. W
[Redfield, William C. 1845. On the drift ice and currents of the North Atlantic. New Haven: Printed by B. L. Hamlen. (from: American Journal of Science and Arts.) [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 18]]
22 Thompson Report on Ireland p. 359 Otter
[Thompson, William. 1841. Report on the fauna of Ireland: div. Vertebrata. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 1840-41, pp. 353-409. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 22]]
361 Burrowing Hare
400 Summary
25 Thwaites on simple seed of Hybrid Fuchsia producing two different plants
[Thwaites, George Henry Kendrick. 1848. Further observations on the Diatomaceae; with descriptions of new genera and species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2d ser. 1: 161-172, pls. XI-XII. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 25]]
26 Rogers Palæozoic the top of Coal, 30,000 ft thick – divided into 48 formations
[Rogers, Henry Darwin. 1844. Address delivered at the meeting of the Association of American Geologists and Naturalists, held in Washington, May, 1844. New York and London: Wiley & Putnam. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 26]]
p. 33-4 Shells common to Cretaceous & recent & some representatives – "those with greatest geograph. range have greatest vertical range" – It ought to be those which have lasted longest, have ranged furthest. It wd be opposed to my theory that all wide ranges shd change.
39 apparently a warmer period after Drift period.
28 p. 20 Mazotha Lemurs on summit of mountains in plenty
35 Lyell p 19 Bolca Eocene & glaciers – authority given V. Agassiz in Pictet
[ Lyell, Charles. 1850. Anniversary address of the President. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 6: xxvii-lxvi. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 35]]
28 Same trees in Coal Shale in 10,000 ft thickness.
35 Silurian shale 32,000 ft think.
36 Hodgson on Sheep – In wild Females all horned
[ Hodgson, Brian Houghton. 1847. On the tame sheep and goats of the sub-Himaláyas and of Tibet. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 16: 1003-1026. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 36]]
p. 4 Disuse causing ear to drop
5 long-tailed sheep on plains
9 [Bawlol] sheep small tunneled ears
13 arched nose character of males
13 4 teats though 2 character of Family & 5 molars - 14 general results of domestication
p 18 & p. 22 Feet- just a generic character varying in certain goats
23 var in Cæcum length of.-
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