RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of 4to Pamphlets. CUL-DAR75.94. 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. RN3

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43      Hooker N. Zealand Flora

[This number was reassigned by Darwin. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1853. Introductory essay to the flora of New Zealand. London: Lovell Reeve. (Bound with Hooker, On the flora of Australia. CUL-DAR.LIB.287) outsize CUL-DAR.LIB.293 PDF another copy: CUL-DAR.LIB.291 PDF]

XVIII   On number of species of Plants in world

XX      Islds of Atlantic & pacific have peculiar genera (many have become extinct on mainland)

XX      Believes isolation of groups due to extinction — natural orders often connected by one or two species only - good showing that the intermediate are becoming extinct

XXI     Compositæ common to L. Auk P Fuegie & Kerguetinæ (no passes) Glacier transport.

XXV    cases of Plants invading country in which species occurs (Proof on hat trifle battle is determined Ch: 5

XXVII  On distinctness of N. Zealand Flora p 28 — obscure little known Nat. Orders.

XXVII  Lycopodium Hot springs of Azores & St. Pauls

XXIX   more than 2/3 species peculiar 507/730 p. XXX generic affinity most strong to Australia 240/282 genera Australian

XXX    74 Endemic compositæ  belonging to Australia genera — Hence not drifted by wind now, if not now never

XXXI   Eucalyptus &c absent in N. Zealand

XXXII  A few compos. of very wide range

XXXVII Perhaps Endemic genera least variable

—       On Polymorphous species variable in different quarters Ch. 4.

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44      Hooker Tasmanian Flora Reference at End.

[This number was reassigned by Darwin. Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1859. On the flora of Australia, its origin, affinities, and distribution; being an introductory essay to the flora of Tasmania. 2 vols. in 1. London: Lovell Reeve. [inscribed to Darwin by Hooker][Spine title: Hooker Essays...] outsize CUL-DAR.LIB.287 PDF]

45      Asa Gray. Bit. Numoris p 389 Hydrangea, Japan, Himalaya, N. of Java & Allegheny

Gray, Asa. 1859. Diagnostic characters of new species of phænogamous plants, collected in Japan by Charles Wright, botanist of the US North Pacific Exploring Expedition … With observations upon the relations of the Japanese flora to that of North America, and of other parts of the northern temperate zone. [Read 14 December 1858 and 11 January 1859.] Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences n.s. 6: 377-452. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection Quarto 45] PDF

          - 391 little varying in Archangelica, by character this genus appears separated from angelica

          p. 444-449 note

          - 399 on the gradual breaking down of cases of [wettest] disjointed ranges

          - 408 case of occasional abortion - & in allied genus of occasional [nature] of appearances of vestige of some genus

          - 437 grand facts on identical & representation [species] in Japan & America. (Bentham, in channel by N. W. America) 442 on Relations

          - in range of identical & representative species, 445 on simple centre of

          - action, very good. — 446 Relations of likeness to miocene plant in America.

          - 447 On migration in warm period subsequent to Drift.

47      Spencer Bate 589 On Land-crab & Cray-fish not undergoing metamorphosis very interesting subject – Metamorphosis quite gradual in [illeg] with change of important impact 602

Bate, Charles Spence. 1857. On the development of decapod Crustacea. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 148: 589-605. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection Quarto 47] PDF

          - 593 On all Crust. being hermaphrodite (so in Cirripedes)

          - 597 2 million eggs in Brachyrinus crabs

           603 Carcinus allied to Land [Gagarinus]. — Land & F. W. higher than sea.

48      Egerton 884 Lias in Sturgeons in some degree intermediate between Gamids & recent sturgeons. Gamids intermediate between three ossera Fish & Selachians as if gamids quite extinct & unknown then 2 great groups wd be more distinct.

Egerton, Philip Grey. 1858. On Chondrosteus, an extinct genus of the Sturionidae, found in the Lias formation in Lyme Regis. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 148: 871-885. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection Quarto 48] PDF

49      Lubbock p 185 variations in muscles of Larvæ.

Lubbock, John. 1858. On the arrangement of the cutaneous muscles of the larva of Pygaera bucephala. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 22: 173-191. [Darwin Pamphlet Collection Quarto 49] PDF


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