RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. [Abstract of 4to Pamphlets]. CUL-DAR75.92. 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

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2.       Lyell p 13 Rise probably 10 miles in century p. 33

12.     Owen p 356 Rhynesaurus remarks on Classification of Fossil p 359 intermediate

          p 364 Best p 368

13.     Owen p 518 Labyrinthodon, intermediate p 521- p 525 good p 528- p 533 p 541

15      Owen p 15 Belemnite – no progress in structure of Cephalopods

          p 88 intermediate rather say combined character now separate than intermediate forms.

18      Leidy p. 9 a sphere "an immutable organic form"

          p 41 – seven Entozoa within Julu besides a Flora

19      Waterhouse Table of Distrib of Rodents &

20      Huxley on sense of [wind] Archetype

21      Bonaparte p 19 smaller Fam. of Geospizae of Galapagos & p 39 Galapagos Cryneus a section

23      Sel. Longcham p 60 Birds direct themselves against wind & perhaps perceive   something in wind to guide them.

24      Bonaparte p 8 admits almost impossible to distinguish owls of W. Indies

25      Huxley p. 42 Position of heart varies remarkably in Cleodera or Zusibia

          56 remarks that of certain organs are formed first, subsequent ones must accommodate themselves to [illeg] , thus account for variability in nervous system

          N. B. some facts lead me to suppose most modified parts are first formed.

          [in margin:] N.B. The earliest formed organs which have been supposed by earliest progenitors

31      Owen p. 492 Teeth of mammals alone useful for classification – Definition easier in proportion as animal rises in scale (i.e man modified)

          p 495 The Typical formula of teeth most constant in oldest mammals

          (Show in the Purbeck species)

35      Hooker Galapagos (with some notes by self) p 325 [235] – Double affinity – the peculiar species for most part being allied to cooler plants p. 239: p 237 some having no near allies. p. 251 & some i.e 13 peculiar but allied to Hot type.

[illeg] in Glacial??

          p 239 most of species restricted to single wild so that Flora of each must be very different

          p 240 Hookers caution about ranges causing difficulty in comparing small & great regions.

          p 241 no Faunas seem absent or very scanty in Galapagos

          p 243 Several [islands] analogous on having composite trees, belonging to different orders p 250 top; I think then may be accounted for by difficult differences of Trees

          p 244 Society Islds very few composite

          p 245 Compositæ little spread

          p 245 Euphorbiaceæ very numerous, more than ought to be, - so Rubiaceæ.

          p 246 Many cases of many species of peculiar endemic genera

          p 246  The endemic genera have more species than the borrowed ++

          p 247 This very odd & as far as one can judge change, which Families have peculiar plants in the several

          p 247 Amaranthaceae wonderfully numerous 10 times too many & peculiar

          p 250 Several dubious species in Galapagos (of W. Indian type)

[Hooker, J. D. 1851. On the vegetation of the Galapagos Archipelago, as compared with that of some other tropical islands and of the continent of America. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 20: 235-262.]


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