Transcriber’s Notes and Errata
The following words were found in both hyphenated and unhyphenated forms in the text.
| Hyphenated | Unhyphenated | ||
| Word | Instances | Word | Instances |
| deer-hound | 2 | deerhound | 1 |
| fresh-water | 13 | freshwater | 1 |
| inter-relations | 1 | interrelations | 1 |
| re-action | 1 | reaction | 1 |
| sea-weed | 7 | seaweed | 1 |
| super-natural | 2 | supernatural | 24 |
| wood-cut | 3 | woodcut | 3 |
| wood-cuts | 4 | woodcuts | 1 |
There were 9 instances of ‘larvae’ and 3 instances of ‘larvæ’.
The following typographical errors were corrected:
| Page | Error | Correction |
| 44 | arboresent | arborescent |
| 75 | the | The |
| 337 | dicussion | discussion |
In the index, the page entry for “Lyell, Sir Charles … on geological record” was changed from ‘420’ to ‘422’.
Also, the page entry for “Natural selection … defintion of” was changed from ‘275-376’ to ‘275-276’.
Some illustrations were repositioned.