The Foundations of the Origin of Species

In the corresponding passage in the Origin, Ed. i. p. 430, vi. p. 591, the term general is used in place of generic, and seems a better expression. In the margin the author gives Waterhouse as his authority.

441

Origin, Ed. i. p. 430, vi. p. 591.

442

In a corresponding passage in the Origin, Ed. i. p. 423, vi. p. 579, the author makes use of his knowledge of pigeons. The pseudo-genera among dogs are discussed in Var. under Dom., Ed. ii. vol. I. p. 38.

443

Origin, Ed. i. pp. 419, 427, vi. pp. 575, 582.

444

Origin, Ed. i. pp. 423, 427, vi. pp. 579, 583.

445

Origin, Ed. i. p. 423, vi. p. 579.

446

A general statement of the influence of conditions on variation occurs in the Origin, Ed. i. pp. 131-3, vi. pp. 164-5.

447

Origin, Ed. i. p. 423, vi. p. 579. In the margin Marshall is given as the authority.

448

Origin, Ed. i. p. 423, vi. p. 579.

449

The discussion here following corresponds more or less to the Origin, Ed. i. pp. 411, 412, vi. pp. 566, 567; although the doctrine of divergence is not mentioned in this Essay (as it is in the Origin) yet the present section seems to me a distinct approximation to it.

450

The author probably intended to write “groups separated by chasms.”

451

A similar discussion occurs in the Origin, Ed. i. p. 427, vi. p. 582.

452

Puffinuria berardi, see Origin, Ed. i. p. 184, vi. p. 221.

453

Origin, Ed. i. p. 430, vi. p. 591.

454

Origin, Ed. i. p. 434, vi. p. 595. Ch. VIII corresponds to a section of Ch. XIII in the Origin, Ed. i.

455

Origin, Ed. i. p. 434, vi. p. 596. In the Origin, Ed. i. these examples occur under the heading Morphology; the author does not there draw much distinction between this heading and that of Unity of Type.

456

See Origin, Ed. i. p. 436, vi. p. 599, where the parts of the flower, the jaws and palpi of Crustaceans and the vertebrate skull are given as examples.

457

The author here brings Unity of Type and Morphology together.

458

The solid-hoofed pigs mentioned in Var. under Dom., Ed. ii. vol. II. p. 424 are not Lincolnshire pigs. For other cases see Bateson, Materials for the Study of Variation, 1894, pp. 387-90.

459

In the margin C. Bell is given as authority, apparently for the statement about Plesiosaurus. See Origin, Ed. i. p. 436, vi. p. 598, where the author speaks of the “general pattern” being obscured in “extinct gigantic sea lizards.” In the same place the suctorial Entomostraca are added as examples of the difficulty of recognising the type.

460

Origin, Ed. i. p. 438, vi. p. 602.

461

Origin, Ed. i. p. 439, vi. p. 604.

462

The uselessness of the branchial arches in mammalia is insisted on in the Origin, Ed. i. p. 440, vi. p. 606. Also the uselessness of the spots on the young blackbird and the stripes of the lion-whelp, cases which do not occur in the present Essay.

463

In the Origin, Ed. i. pp. 442, 448, vi. pp. 608, 614 it is pointed out that in some cases the young form resembles the adult, e. g. in spiders; again, that in the Aphis there is no “worm-like stage” of development.

464

In the Origin, Ed. i. p. 449, vi. p. 618, the author speaks doubtfully about the recapitulation theory.

465