RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of 8vo. Pamphlets. CUL-DAR75.72. Edited by John van Wyhe (The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and John van Wyhe, edited by John van Wyhe 5.2021, 9.2025. RN3

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8vo Pamphlets

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

Haast, John Francis Julius von. 1863. Notes on the structure and habits of Strigops habroptilus read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury. (manuscript draft. Apparently not printed) [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 304]

          On Naturalisation of Plant & animals in N. Zealand

305     Giglioli — wing of Apteryx, drawings of

Giglioli, Enrico Hillyer. 1863. Della famiglia ornitica delle Apterigidee e specialmente del genere Apterix. pls. VII-VIII. Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali. (from: Atti della Societa italiana di Scienze Naturali 5: 303-529.) [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 305] PDF

306     Galton on taming of wild animals.

Galton, Francis. 1863. The first steps towards the domestication of animals. London: privately printed. [Read before the Ethnological Society of London, 22 December 1863, and printed in Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London n.s. 3 (1865): 122-138.][Darwin Pamphlet Collection 306] PDF

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

Brown, Edwin. 1863. On the genus Acentropus. Appendix to: Oswald Mosely, The natural history of Tutbury. By Sir O. M. Together with the fauna and flora of the district surrounding Tutbury and Burton-on-Trent, by E. Brown. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 307] PDF

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

Scudder, Samuel Hubbard. 1863. An account of the distinct zones of life on high mountains. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 9 (May): 230-233. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 310] PDF

311     Scott on the crossing of Cryptogams

Scott, John. 1864. Remarks on the sexuality of the higher cryptogams, with a notice of a hybrid Selaginella. [Read before the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, 10 March.] Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal n.s. 19: 192-200. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 311] PDF

315     Thury — p. 27 Males & Female came from Hermaphrodites.

Thury, Marc Antoine. 1863. Mémoire sur la loi de production des sexes chez les plantes les animaux et l'homme. 2d ed. Geneva and Paris: Joël Cherbuliez. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 315] PDF

316     Dana — p. 15 Sesia imitating other insects.

Dana, James Dwight. 1863. The classification of animals based on the principle of cephalization. No. II. Classification of insects. American Journal of Science and Arts 2d ser. 37: 10-35. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 316] PDF

          p. 21 do, 23

          p. 32 Hemipters lowest & must synthesise type

317     [Dana] on Principle of Classification & Affinity

Dana, James Dwight. 1863. On certain parallel relations of the classes of vertebrates, and on some characteristics of the reptilian birds. (from: American Journal of Science and Arts 2d ser. 36: 315-321.) [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 317] PDF

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

Haast, John Francis Julius von. 1861. Report of a topographical and geological exploration of the Western districts of the Nelson province, New Zealand. Nelson: Elliott. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 321] PDF

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

Gray, Asa. 1863. [Review of] Bentham, Flora Australiensis: a description of the plants of the Australian territory. American Journal of Science and Arts 2d ser. 36: 290-291. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 325] PDF

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

Blainville, Henri Marie Ducrotay de. 1863. Principes de zooclassie ou classification des animaux. Paris: Roret. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 328] PDF

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

Wallace, Alfred Russel. 1863. On the physical geography of the Malay Archipelago. Journal of the Royal Geographical Society 33: 217-234, 1 map. [inscribed offprint] CUL-DAR133.10.1 /[Darwin Pamphlet Collection 329] Text Image PDF

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

Walsh, Benjamin Dann. 1862. List of the Pseudoneuroptera of Illinois contained in the cabinet of the writer, with descriptions of over forty new species, and notes on their structural affinities. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 14, nos. 7-9: 361-402. [inscribed][Darwin Pamphlet Collection 330] PDF

331     do p. 296 on change of range in Locust

Walsh, Benjamin Dann. 1863. On certain remarkable or exceptional larvae, coleopterous, lepidopterous, and dipterous, with descriptions of several new genera and species, and of several species injurious to vegetation, which have been already published in agricultural journals. [Read 7 October.] Journal of the Boston Society of Natural History 9: 286-318. [inscribed][Darwin Pamphlet Collection 331] PDF

334     do Clythus females identical; males different

Walsh, Benjamin Dann. 1864. On phytophagic varieties and phytophagic species (with remarks on the utility of coloration in insects). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia 3: 403-430; 5: 194-216. [inscribed][Darwin Pamphlet Collection 334, 401] PDF

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

Walsh, Benjamin Dann. 1864. On certain entomological speculations of the New England school of naturalists. [Agassiz] Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia 3: 207-249. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 335] PDF

336     do p. 217 difference in sexual organ in insects

Walsh, Benjamin Dann. 1863. Observations on certain North American Neuroptera, by H. Hagen, M.D., of Koenigsberg, Prussia; translated from the original French MS., and published by permission of the author, with notes and descriptions of about twenty new species of North American Pseudoneuroptera. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia 2: 167-272. [inscribed][Darwin Pamphlet Collection 336] PDF

          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

Walsh, Benjamin Dann. 1864. On dimorphism in the hymenopterous genus Cynips, with an appendix, containing hints for a new classification of Cynipidas and a list of Cynipidœ, including descriptions of several new species, inhabiting the oak-galls of Illinois. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia 3: 443-500. [inscribed][Darwin Pamphlet Collection 337] PDF

          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

Walsh, Benjamin Dann. 1864-1866. On the insects, coleopterous, hymenopterous and dipterous inhabiting the galls of certain species of willow. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia 3: 543-641; (1866) 6: 223-288. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 338, 416] PDF

          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. 1865-6. [Review of Climbing plants]. American Journal of Science and Arts 2d ser. 40: 273-282; 41: 125-30. [Silliman's Journal][Darwin Pamphlet Collection 339] PDF

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

Saporta, Louis Charles Joseph Gaston de. 1864. Sur la découverte d'une cycadée dans le terrain tertiaire moyen de Provence. Bulletin de la Société géologique de France 21: 314-328, pl. V. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 340] PDF

345     Hackell on mature & immature Medusae sexually reproducing themselves

Haeckel, Ernst. 1865. Über eine neue Form des Generationswechsels bei den Medusen, und über die Verwandtschaft der Geryoniden und Aeginiden. [Read 2 February.] Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussische Akademie des Wissenschaften zu Berlin, (February): 85-94. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 345] PDF

347     Abstract on Wallace on mimetic Birds

Tegetmeier, William Bernhard. 1864. Mimetic analogy. Intellectual Observer 6 (December): 307-313, 1 pl. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 347] PDF


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