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Studies in the Theory of Descent, Volume II

Chapter 21: ERRATA.
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A series of empirical and theoretical essays investigates how developmental stages and heredity influence evolutionary change. Focusing largely on Lepidoptera, the text shows that larval, pupal, and adult forms can vary independently, analyzes patterns and causes of variability, and examines correlations among traits. It evaluates natural selection as an agent shaping form in relation to life history, critiques the inheritance of acquired characteristics, and distinguishes mechanisms of somatic versus germ-line transmission. Comparative observations, examples, and logical argumentation are combined to clarify how morphological change and stability arise across generations.


ERRATA.

Page 81, line 8 from top, and throughout essay, for “Daphnidæ” read “Daphniidæ.”

Page 95, line 3 from bottom, for “Daphnoidea” read “Daphniacea.”

Page 166, line 7 from bottom (note), for “p. 438” read “p. 433.”

Page 245, line 17 from bottom (note), for “Ställ” read “Stoll.”

Page 263, after the word “insects” (bottom line of note), add, “but the whole marking is suggestive of distastefulness.”

Page 296, line 3 from bottom, for “Stähelina—collector” read “Stähelin—a collector.”

Page 305, line 5 from bottom (note), for “In 1869” read “In 1865.”

Page 434, bottom line of note, for “Geometræ” read “Bombycidæ.”

Page 494, line 2 from top, for “from which a larval form” read “from a larval form which.”

Page 542, line 12 from top, for “Dione Vanilla” read “Dione Vanillæ.”

Page 544, line 15 from bottom, for “Siderome” read “Siderone.”