RECORD: Darwin, C. R. and Emma Darwin n.d. Abstract of 8vo Pamphlets. CUL-DAR75.82. 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. RN4

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Abstract of 8vo Pamphlets

791

Czerny, sort of nat. selection of the elements fit for heavy winds

Czerny, Vinzenz. 1872. Ueber die Beziehungen der Chirurgie zu den Naturwissenschaften. (Inaugural lecture delivered 14 June 1872.) Freiburg: Fr. Wagner'sche Buchhandlung. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 791] PDF

794

Maw. Mammals distributing stones of fruit

Maw, George. 1872. A journey to Marocco and ascent of the great Atlas. A Lecture delivered before the Birmingham and Midland Institute. Ironbridge: J. Slater, Machine Printer. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 794] PDF

 

- p. 19 Glacial phenomena in Mexico

796

Marsh, metamorphosis of Siredon

Marsh, Othniel Charles. 1868. Observations on the metamorphosis of Siredon into Amblystoma. American Journal of Science and Arts 46: 364-374, 1 pl. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 469, 796] PDF

799

Krefft. hist of mammals & Birds of Australia. p. 37 fossil Diversive

Krefft, Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard). 1871. Australian vertebrata - fossil and recent. [In: The industrial progress of New South Wales: being a report of the Intercolonial Exhibition of 1870, at Sydney: together with a variety of papers illustrative of the industrial resources of the colony. Sydney: Thomas Richards.] [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 799] PDF

 

- p. 93 snout of Saw-fish are incipient structure in allied Rep. gradation

802

Delpino on ants protecting aphides & cicada; on [illeg] of antennæ when sucking do.

Delpino, Federico. 1872. Sui rapporti delle formiche colle tettigometre e sulla genealogia degli afidi e dei coccidi. Bullettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 4: 343-351. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 802] PDF

803

Masters, p. 20 feather of birds & scale of Reptiles identical in early structure

Martins, Charles Frédéric. 1873. Un naturaliste philosophe: Lamarck, sa vie et ses oeuvres. Revue des deux mondes 104: 142-177. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 803] Text

 

- p. 25 on Blind Reptiles which live under pond. p. 26 do 27 colour of cave insects

 

- p. 27 Harting says right & left arm differ in joint from infant

 

- 28 on aborted limbs

804

Jenyns p. 6 mistakes of instincts. p. 8 paper on transmitted experience of animals

Jenyns, Leonard. (Blomefield) 1872. Local biology, followed by remarks on the faunas of Bath and Somerset. [Read 13 November.] Proceedings of the Bath Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club 2(4): 373-426. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 804] PDF

 

- p. 9. tadpole produced in England in dry places.

 

- 12 same number of pair of birds coming to same places

806

Canestrini — larval form of many distinct fishes alike — Line of Descent

Canestrini, Giovanni. 1871. Intorno alla riproduzione e lo sviluppo dei lofobranchi. Rivista Scientifico-industriale di Firenze. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 806]

809

Barrande. On Similar Crust. & Fishes, many cases opposed to Evolution

Barrande, Joachim. 1872. Crustacés divers et poissons des dépôts siluriens de la Bohème... Extrait du Supplément au vol. I. du Système silurien du centre de la Bohème. Paris: the author. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 809] PDF

814

Masters, Distrib of plants, glacial period.

Martins, Charles Frédéric. 1872. Une station géodésique au sommet du Canigou. Paris: Claye. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 814] Text

815

Gill Mollusca are adapted to breathe air, is different [ways] like F. Müller centaceous.

Gill, Theodore. 1871. Arrangement of the families of mollusks. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 714, 815] PDF

816

— Lines of Descent to the Cetecea.

Gill, Theodore. 1873. On the genetic relations of the cetaceans and the methods involved in discovery. American Naturalist 1: 19-29. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 816] PDF

818

Saporta, Tertiary genera now reduced to 100 few living species in Europe

Saporta, Louis Charles Joseph Gaston de. 1872-1874. Études sur la végétation du sud-est de la France à l'époque tertiaire. Supplément I: Révision de la flore des gypses d'Aix. Annales des Sciences Naturelles. Botanique 5th ser. 15 (1872): 277-351; 17 (1873): 5-44; 18 (1874): 23-146. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 818] PDF

 

— on relationship of extant types — intermediate forms

 

— relation of Tertiary to African forms, p 56 [great] sp. of P[illeg] have come from the N.

819

Godron on glacial Distribution in the Cordillera

Orton, James. 1872. Contributions to the natural history of the valley of Quito.—III. Articulates. American Naturalist 6: 650-657. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 819] PDF

822

Jenner Weir — on size as sizes of Highest of development, & on slowness of individual development.

Weir, John Jenner. 1873. West Kent Natural History, Microscopical, and Photographic Society. The president's address; and the council and auditors' reports for 1872, and a lecture on the aquarium and its contents, delivered in the Crystal Palace by J. Jenner Weir, Esq., president, at the soirée, November 6th, 1872. Greenwich: W. H. Crockford. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 822] PDF

825

Asa Gray, on geolog. Hist. & Geograph distrib. of Sequoia & other trees; same types on same continent

Gray, Asa. 1872. The Sequoia and its history. An address by Prof. Asa Gray... American Naturalist 6 (October): 577-596. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 825] PDF

831

Maxwell Masters, Struggle for existence in Plants

Masters, Maxwell Tylden. 1873. The battle of life among plants. Popular Science Review 12: 35-45. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 831] PDF

832

Hyatt on non-reversionary characters & embryology in [illeg]

Hyatt, Alpheus. 1872. The non-reversionary series of the Liparoceratidae, and remarks upon the series of the allied family Dactyloidae. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 15: 4-21. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 832] PDF

834

Refce. to Brown-Séquard on inheritance of epilepsy, from mutilation

Lindsay, William Lauder. 1874. Community of disease in man and other animals. British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review 53: 150-185. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 834] PDF

835

Hicks on the forms in the lowest rocks'

Hicks, Henry. 1874. On the classification of the Cambrian and Silurian rocks. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 3: 99-105. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 835] PDF

836

Ludwig on struggle of life between plants of same genus

Ludwig, Friedrich. 1873-1874. Anthemis Cotula L. und Anthemis arvensis L. im Kampf um's Dasein. Verhandlungen des Botanischen Vereins Berlin Brandenburg 15: 101-103. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 836] PDF

837

De Candolle on number of gen & sp of plants

Candolle, Alphonse de. 1873. Prodromi systematis naturalis vegetabilium historia, numeri, conclusio. Paris: G. Masson. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 837] PDF

838

Packard on embryology & accelerated development of insects & on

Packard, Alpheus Spring Jr. 1873. The ancestry of insects. Chapter XIII of "Our common insects." Printed in advance. Salem: Naturalists' Agency. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 838] PDF

839

 

larvæ being different while mature are similar

840

Criticism on Weismann on Isolation & on difference of larvæ of same species

Quaedvlieg, Louis. 1873. [Review of] Weismann, De l'influence de l'isolement dans la Formation des espèces. Annales de la Société entomologique de Belgique 16: CXVII-CXXVI. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 840] PDF

 


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