RECORD: Darwin, C. R. & Francis Darwin. Abstract 8vo Pamphlets. CUL-DAR75.84.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 3.2020, 9.2025. RN3
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ABSTRACT. 8VO PAMPHLETS
907 Saporta on close affinity of tertiary & recent trees in Europe good answer to Oswald V. Heer.
Saporta, Louis Charles Joseph Gaston de. 1873. Sur les caractères propres a la végétation Pliocène, a propos des découvertes de M. J. Rames, dans le Cantal. [Read 17 February.] Bulletin de la Société géologique de France 3d ser. 1: 212-232. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 853, 907] PDF
908 De Candolle on Physiologl differences of plants. Remarks that Saporta shows how gradually sp: change. Tropical species much most numerous.
Candolle, Alphonse de. 1874. Constitution dans le règne végétal de groupes physiologiques applicables à la géographie botanique ancienne et moderne. Bibliothèque universelle et revue Suisse. Archives des sciences physiques et Naturelles 50: 5-42. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 908] PDF
913 Hildebrande means of dispersion of seeds
Hildebrand, Friedrich Hermann Gustav. 1873. Die Schleuderfrüchte und ihr im anatomischen Bau begründeter Mechanismus. Jahrbücher für wissenschaftliche Botanik 9: 235-276, pls. XXIII-XXV. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 913] PDF
920 Woodward Table showing geology persistence of arthropods
Woodward, Henry. 1872. Life-forms of the past and present. Popular Science Review 11: 391-404, pls. XC-XCI. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 920] PDF
921 Hicks gradation in structure of Medusae
Hincks, Thomas. 1872. The hydroid Medusae. Popular Science Review 11 (October): 337-349, pl. LXXXVIII. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 921] PDF
929 Malm on hermiaphodite fishes
Malm, August Wilhelm. 1873. Einige Fälle von Zweigeschlechtlichkeit…Zwillingsbildung beim Hering ( Clupea Harengus L.). Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin (July): 94-97. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 929] PDF
931 Buchalz habits of chameleons
Buchholz, R. 1874. Bemerkungen über die im Cameroongebiet vorkommenden Arten von Chamaeleonen. Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussische Akademie des Wissenschaften zu Berlin (1874): 77-89. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 931] PDF
933 Trautschold argues well against me on imperfection of geology record; see my M.S. notes: & mem ammonites in carboniferous rocks of India —
Trautschold, Hermann Adolfovich. 1874. Die langlebigen und die unsterblichen Formen der Thierwelt. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 47: 165-183. (whole issueP [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 933] PDF
p. 169 admits Cephalopods connected by many intermed forms & asks why not all other fossil mollusk — p. 173 long list of gen which have long endured — p. 176 long duration not always connected with wide distribution & numerous sp. p. 182 disputes Hilgendorf's case on authority of sandberger, & so did Hyatt to me.
934 Bouton spreading of introduced plants in Mauritius
[Bouton, Louis Sulpice.] [attributed by Darwin] 1873. 'The spreading of introduced plants' [Eau douce sur les côtes de Tobago]. Transactions of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences of Mauritius 7: [101-102] 103-112. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 934] PDF
936 P. 58 Oldham believes in Wageu discovery of carboniferous ammonites in India
Oldham, Thomas. 1873. President's address. Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 2: 42-63. (whole issue) [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 936] PDF
938 Désor
Desor, Édouard. 1872. L'évolution des échinides dans la série géologique et leur role dans la formation jurassique. Bulletin de la Société des sciences Naturelles de Neuchâtel 9: 223-252, 1 pl. (whole issue) [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 938] PDF
p 227 intermediate forms of echinoderms — p 228 the group is v ancient, yet suddenly gave rise to many forms in Jurassic period, this opposed to Jäger. p 240 vars in successive stages of same formation — 247 some forms refract some variable
939 Hincks Plumalaria good case of gradation
Hincks, Thomas. 1874. Plumularians. Popular Science Review 13 (July): 225-237, pls. CX-CXI. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 939a] PDF l
939A Leith Adams struggle for existence between two sp of bears
Adams, Andrew Leith. 1874. Natural history and geographical distribution of bears. Popular Science Review. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 939b] PDF
939B Masters causes of modifying sexes in plants
Masters, Maxwell Tylden. 1873. Sexuality in plants. Popular Science Review 12: 363-370, 1 pl. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 939c] PDF
941 Bennet on coats of pollen grains not digested by flies
Bennett, Alfred William. 1874. Pollen-eating flies. Journal of the Horticultural Society of London 4: 158. (whole issue) [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 941] PDF
942 Bennet on forms of pollen in reln to fertn [relation to fertilisation]
Bennett, Alfred William. 1875. Insects and flowers. Popular Science Review 14: 113-125. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 942] PDF
943 Gentry – Larvæ changing to kinds of plants on which they feed
Gentry, Thomas G. 1875. A curious anomaly in the history of certain larvae of Acronycta oblinita Guenée, and hints on the phylogeny of Lepidoptera. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia 1875: 24-54. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 943] PDF
944 Nägeli on Hieracium. — most important on struggle for existence & on extinction & on variation
Nägeli, Carl von. 1874. Verdrängung der Pflanzenformen durch ihre Mitbewerber. (from: Sitzungsberichte der mathematisch-physikalischen Classe der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München ) München: Straub. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 944] PDF
945 Hyatt, on changes ammonites — acclimation — degeneration — embryological characters
Hyatt, Alpheus. 1873. Evolution of the Arietidae. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 16: 166-170. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection 945] PDF
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