RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Memoranda about Books [many references]. CUL-DAR91.79-80. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed from the manuscript by Kees Rookmaaker, corrections by John van Wyhe 3.2010. Corrections by Christine Chua 8.2023. RN2
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR91 contains early notes on guns & shooting. Darwin's draft of recollections of Henslow, 1861. Notes on the moral sense. Wallace pension. 'a sketch of the principal events in my life' & list of Darwin's works. Loose notes found with CUL-DAR119 'Books to be read'. Two sheets, 105 x 170mm, written on recto only.
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Memoranda about Books
A. Gray gives list of imported Plants
Hooker says excellent Book.
Perhaps gives alpine Plants.
Darlington Flora Cestrica for do. Hooker can lend
E. Forbes in Bot. Soc. of Edinburgh. 1841. March (?) in Viola. Undulating Forms.
Etudes sur la Geograph. Bot. Lecoq in Mus. Pract. Geolog. Hooker says thinks poor
Dict. Universel d'Hist. Nat. good article on Propagation — Hybrid. terms from Banks. In Mus. Pract. Geolog.
Thurman Essai. Phytostatique: on duration & origin of species of Plants in Jura, in Linn. Lib. —
Sal. Müller most important work on Malayan Arch. (I think for Roy. Book that in Wiegman. Archif Naturgesch. 1846. I. p. 109. There is paper on Geograph. District. —
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Die Saugethiere, Vogel & Amphibien nach ihren Geograph. Verbreitung. Tabellarisch zusammengestellt. Dr. H. Pompper. Leipzig 1841. & (new by Berghaus for Birds)
Die Wirbelthiere Europas. von Keyserling & Prof. Blasius. Brunswick 1840
I fancy only a Catalogue
Schinz seems to have written on inhabitants animals of high valley of Ursern in Alps (Johnston Atlas)
Nott & Gliddon Types of Mankind (read)
Carpenter has written in Encyclop of Anatomy & Physiology, article on Variation & races of mankind. Yarrell has, wd. lend me while in London ? sure to be mere compilation. —
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