RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of 8vo. Pamphlets. CUL-DAR75.72. 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. 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.


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8vo Pamphlets

304     Haast on ground Parrot has wings but does not use them

          On Naturalisation of Plant & animals in N. Zealand

305     Giglioli – wing of apteryx drawings of

306     Galton on taming of wild animals.

307     Brown – a genus of insect placed in 3 classes, certainly a Lepidopt.

310     Scudder on Alpine insects of N. America – versus Glacial

311     Scott on the crossing of Cryptoganus

315     Thierry – p. 27 Males & Female came from Hermaphrodites.

316     Dana – p. 15 Sesia imitating other insects.

          p. 21 do, 23

          p. 32 [hemiptera] lowest & must synthesise type

317     [Dana] on Principle of Classification & Affinity

321     Haast p. 136 enormous invasion of wild Pigs in N. Zealand

325     A. Gray – Review of Bates – on Linum – Variation & Orchids.

328     p. 18 Pallas first compared classification to [net] - p. 19. [Sirenœus] gave good definition of Highness.

329     Wallace on phys. geography. & Distribution in Malay Arch.

330     Walsh on unity of colouring in insects in same region.

331     do p. 296 on change of range in Locust

334     do [Clythus] females identical; males different

335     do p. 209 to 222 On range of insects n U. States & Europe, discusses in detail

336     do p. 217 difference in sexual organ in insects

          p. 222 on Dimorphism in insects, in horn of males – Sexual selection – more males

          than females

337     do on difference in moles & working anys p. 458 changed Habit of Clytus

          p. 461, 462 on certain genera living in certain genre of plants

          p. 476 gradation of structure in allied parasitic & non-parasitic insects

          p. 475 Cynipes has a sting.

338     do p. 549 Transition in Habits

          p 567 do in papal case p. 642 do

          p. 550 case of wonderful dependence of insects on each other

          p. 570 on unity of Habits in same genus. do p. 643 p. 641 do

          p. 636 on unity of Coloration in insects of same genus

          p 639, 640 good case of relationship of insects & oaks on which 5 feed

          p 642 consider wingless Bugs as dimorphous.

339     Asa Gray Review of my Climbing Plants

[Gray, Asa. 1876. [Review of Insectivorous plants and climbing plants]. Darwin's insectivorous and climbing plants. Nation (6 January: 12-14); (13 January: 30-32). CUL-DAR139.18.11-12]

340     Saporta on curious relations of Tertiary cycads to recent & show extinction & confined to islands

345     Hackell on mature & immature nedura sexually reproducing [character]

347     Abstract on Wallace on [2 words illeg] Birds


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