RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstracts of 8vo Pamphlets. CUL-DAR75.75. 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 Abstract
427. Wallace Philosophy of Birds nest. – good as showing in [illeg] that instinct governed by structures.
428 Müller p. 41-58 very few insects feed on Cryptogenic plants, excepting Fungi
p. 43 –400 insects depend on the Oak
p. 69 Caterpillars feeding on certain parts a kind of plant became coloured like them.
430 Packard p. 287 Bombus moult 10 times during metamorphosis
293 Neuroptera differ greatly – a Broken order; geology ages of orders
Hymenoptera appeared later viz monozoic
433 Hennefrig on Portuguese Plants in Ireland having been introduced by man?? & in climate being similar
435 Goodman on Birds of Azores – Wanderers – good
437 Lathem, on order in which plants occupied newly disturbed Land Struggle for existence
438 Sclater on Distrib of Barbets
p. 242 All Birds that nest in holes lay white Eggs – good
440 Rolleston History of the Cats quotes Benedin, the ways of a Fauna in [illeg] like the organ of one body
442 Baily on fossil Silurian & Devonian plants in Iceland
450 Saunders difficulties in structure of male cricket according to nat. selection
456 Hilgendorf on [Plumbis multiservis] – ought to be translated
457 Rolleston on complex modifications of old muscles for special purposes
459 Buist young male salmon breeding
464 Crolls pamphlets bearing on Glacial period & age of world
465 Barrande on concentration, & intelligence of Silurian Pteropods
466 do p. 23 gradation in [illeg] of species in nautilus
p. 26 Definition of species, most vague. according to pleasure
p. 27, 30 on extreme richness of life in very ancient periods
p 31, 35 on relation of N & S Fauna of Europe
p 34 Law of horizontal & vertical effusion
467 Saporta p. 11 Greenland crustaceous forms
p 19 [climate] of [illeg] Polar Regions, seen whole, & whatever between Europe & America
469 Marsh, on metamorphoses of Sizedon – showing manner of Transition from air to water Breather - & showing how species vary less abruptly change – Here allude to Cope! Pamphlet 8 (513)
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