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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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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