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[952] Amoen. Acad., vol. vi. p. 17. -- 11, 12.

[953] Kirby and Spence, vol. i. p. 178.

[954] Amoen. Acad., vol. vi. p. 26. -- 14.

[955] Kirby and Spence, vol. iv. p. 218.

[956] Kirby and Spence, vol. i. p. 250.

[957] Wilcke, Amoen. Acad. c. ii.

[958] Kirby and Spence, vol. i. p. 174.

[959] Trans. Linn. Soc., vol. vi.

[960] Lib. Ent. Know., Insect Trans., p. 203. See Haworth, Lep.

[961] Reaumur, ii. 337.

[962] Lib. Ent. Know., Insect Trans., p. 212.

[963] Kirby and Spence, vol. i. p. 183. Castle, Phil. Trans., x.x.x. 346.

[964] Travels in Africa, p. 257. Kirby and Spence, vol. i. p.

215.

[965] Journal of a Residence in Iceland, p. 276.

[966] Tour in Iceland, vol. i. p. 64, 2nd edit.

[967] Travels in Brazil, vol. i. p. 260.

[968] Ed. Phil. Journ., No. xxii p. 287. Oct. 1824.

[969] Ray. Syn. Quad., p. 214.

[970] Fleming, Ed. Phil. Journ., No. xxii. p. 295.

[971] Fleming, ibid., p. 292.

[972] Vol. iii. London, 1821.

[973] Land Birds, vol. i. p. 316. ed. 1821.

[974] Some have complained that inscriptions on tomb-stones convey no general information, except that individuals were born and died, accidents which must happen alike to all men.

But the death of a _species_ is so remarkable an event in natural history that it deserves commemoration, and it is with no small interest that we learn, from the archives of the University of Oxford, the exact day and year when the remains of the last specimen of the dodo, which had been permitted to rot in the Ashmolean Museum, were cast away. The relics, we are told, were "a musaeo subducta, annuente vice-cancellario aliisque curatoribus, ad ea l.u.s.tranda convocatis, die Januarii 8vo, A.D. 1755." Zool. Journ. No. 12. p. 559. 1828.

[975] Penny Cyclopaedia, "Dodo." 1837.

[976] Messrs. Strickland and Melville on "the Dodo and its Kindred." London, 1848.

[977] Pers. Nar. vol. iv.

[978] Quarterly Review, vol. xxi. p. 335.

[979] Ibid.

[980] Ulloa's Voyage. Wood's Zoog. vol. i. p. 9.

[981] Buffon, vol. v. p. 100. Ulloa's Voyage, vol. ii. p. 220.

[982] Travels in Iceland in 1810, p. 342.

[983] Maclaren, art. America, Encyc. Brit.

[984] See a note on this subject, chap. x. p. 157.

[985] See above, p. 317.

[986] Darwin's Journal, p. 156., 2d ed. p. 133. Sir W. Parish, Buenos Ayres, &c. p. 371. and 151.

[987] See above, chap. vii. p. 112.

[988] See above, chaps. vi. vii. and viii.

[989] Journ. of Nat. Hist. &c. 2d edit., 1845, p. 175; also Lyell's 2d Visit to the United States, vol. i. p. 351.

[990] This and the preceding chapter, on the causes of extinction of species and their present geographical distribution, are reprinted almost verbatim from the original edition of the second volume of "The Principles," published in January, 1832. It was I believe the first attempt to point out how former changes in the geography and local climate of many parts of the globe must be taken into account when we endeavor to explain the actual provinces of plants and animals, the changes alluded to having been proved by geological evidence to be subsequent to the creation of a great proportion of the species now living, and these having been, according to the view which I advocated, introduced in succession, and not all at one geological epoch. In my third volume, published in May, 1833, I announced my conviction that the greater part of the existing Fauna and Flora of Sicily were older than the mountains, plains, and rivers, which the same species of animals and plants now inhabit. (Prin. of Geol., vol. iii. ch.

ix.; repeated in Elements of Geol., 2d edit., vol. i. p. 297.) This line of reasoning has since been ably followed up and elucidated by Professor E. Forbes in an excellent paper (published in 1846) already alluded to. (See page 86.)

[991] Essai Elementaire, &c. p. 46.

[992] Geog. des Plantes. Diet. des Sci.

[993] See Catalogue of Brit. Insects, by John Curtis, Esq.

[994] See some good remarks on the Formation of Soils, Bakewell's Geology, chap. xviii.

[995] See Professor Sedgwick's Anniversary Address to the Geological Society, Feb. 1831, p. 24.

[996] Treatise on Rivers and Torrents, p. 5. Garston's translation.

[997] De la Beche, Geol. Man., p. 184., 1st ed.

[998] Phil. Trans., vol. ii. p. 294.

[999] Maclaren, art. America, Encyc. Britannica.