RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of 4to Pamphlets. CUL-DAR75.92. 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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2. Lyell p 13 Rise probably 10 miles in century p. 33
Lyell, Charles. 1835. I. The Bakerian lecture.—On the proofs of a gradual rising of the land in certain parts of Sweden. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 125: 1-38, 2 pls. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection Quarto 2] PDF
12. Owen p 356 Rhynesaurus remarks on Classification of Fossils p 359 intermediate
Owen, Richard. 1841. On the teeth of species of the great Labyrinthodon (Mastodonsaurus of Jaeger) common to the German Keuper formation and the lower sandstone of Warwick and Leamington. Transactions of the Geological Society of London 2d ser. 6: 503-513. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection Quarto 12] PDF
p 364 Best p 368
13. Owen p 518 Labyrinthodon, intermediate p 521- p 525 good p 528- p 533 p 541
Owen, Richard. 1841. Description of parts of the skeleton and teeth of five species of the genus Labyrinthodon (Lab. leptognathus, Lab. pachygnathus, and Lab. ventricosus, from the Coton-end and Cubbington Quarries of the Lower Warwick Sandstone; Lab. Jaegeri, from Guy's Cliff, Warwick; and Lab. scutulatus, from Leamington); with remarks on the probable identity of the Cheirotherium with this genus of extinct Batrachians. Transactions of the Geological Society of London 2d ser. 6: 515-543, pls. XLIII-XLVII. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection Quarto 13] PDF
15 Owen p 15 Belemnite — no progress in structure of Cephalopods
Owen, Richard. 1844. A description of certain Belemnites, preserved, with a great proportion of their soft parts, in the Oxford clay, at Christian-Malford, Wilts. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 3: 65-85, 5 pls. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection Quarto 15] PDF
p 88 intermediate rather say combined character now separate than intermediate forms.
18 Leidy p. 9 a sphere "an immutable organic form"
Leidy, Joseph. 1853. Flora and fauna within living animals. Washington: Smithsonian Institution. 10 pls. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection Quarto 18] PDF
p 41 — seven Entozoa within Julu besides a Flora
19 Waterhouse Table of Distrib of Rodents & Ruminant
Waterhouse, George Robert. [1856.] Zoological geography. Mammiferous animals: orders Rodentia and Ruminantia. (from: Alexander Keith Johnston ed., The physical atlas of natural phenomena. London: Johnston, pp. 91-93, Plate 28 & tables.) [Darwin Pamphlet Collection Quarto 19] PDF
20 Huxley on sense of wild Archetype
Huxley, Thomas Henry. 1855. On Mollusca. In Charles Knight ed., English cyclopedia. A new dictionary of universal knowledge, vol. 3, pp. 855-874. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection Quarto 20] PDF
21 Bonaparte p 19 smaller Fam. of Geospizae of Galapagos & p 39 Galapagos Cryneus a section
Bonaparte, Charles Lucien. 1854. Notes ornithologiques sur les collections rapportées en 1853 par M.A. Delattre: et classification parallélique des passereaux chanteurs. Paris: Mallet-Bachelier. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection Quarto 21] PDF
23 Sel. Longcham p 60 Birds direct themselves against wind & perhaps perceive something in wind to guide them.
Selys-Longchamps, Edmond de. 1848. Observations sur les phénomènes périodiques du règne animal et particulièrement sur les migrations des oiseaux en Belgique, de 1841-1846. Memoires de l'Academie Royale de Bruxelles 21: 1-88. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection Quarto 23] PDF
24 Bonaparte p 8 admits almost impossible to distinguish owls of W. Indies
Bonaparte, Charles Lucien. 1855. [Review of] Gray, Catalogue des genres etsous-genres d'oiseaux contenus dans le Muséum Britannique. Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences 41: 649-661. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection Quarto 24] PDF
25 Huxley p. 42 Position of heart varies remarkably in Cleodera or Zusibia
Huxley, Thomas Henry. 1853. On the morphology of the cephalous Mollusca, as illustrated by the anatomy of certain Heteropoda and Pteropoda collected during the voyage of HMS 'Rattlesnake' in 1846-50. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 143: 29-65, pls. II-V. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection Quarto 25] PDF
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)
Owen, Richard. 1850. On the development and homologies of the molar teeth of the wart-hogs (Phacochoerus), with illustrations of a system of notation for the teeth in the class Mammalia. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 5: 481-498. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection Quarto 31] PDF
p 495 The Typical formula of teeth most constant in oldest mammals
(How 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.
Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 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. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection Quarto 35] Text
[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)
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