INDEX.

ABBA8. - ALEFIELD.

-- I ABBAS PACHA, a fancier of fantailed pi- QFRICA, white bull from, i. 95; feral geons, i. 216. cattle in, i. 89 ; food-plants of savages ABBEY,Mr., on grafting, ii. 128, 129 ; of, i. 325 ; South, diversity of breeds on mignonette, ii. 223. of cattle in, i. 84; West, change in ABBOTT,Mr. Keith, on the Persian fleece of sheep in. i. 102. tumbler pigeon, i. 156. Agave viv@ara,seeding of, in poor soil, ABBREVIATIONof the facial bones, i. ii. 152. 76. AGE, changes in trees, dependent on, i. ABORTLCJNof organs, ii. 306-310, 392. 413. ABSORPT~ONof minority in crossed -, as bearing on pangenesis, ii. 384. races, ii. 65-67, 158. AGOUTI, fertility of, in captivity, ii. ABUTIMN, graft hybridisation of, i. 135. 418. AGRICULTURE,antiquity of, ii. 230. ACCLIMATISATION,ii. 295-305 ; of Agrostis, seeds of, used as food, i. 326. maize, 1. 341. AGUARA,i. 27. ACERBL,od the fertility of domestic AINSWORTK,Mr., on the change in animals in Lapland, ii. 90. the hair. of aninials at Angora, ii. AchatineZz, ii. 28. 268. Achillea millefolium, bud variation in, i. AKBAR KHAN, his fondness for pigeons, 4-40. i. 215: ii. 188. Aconitum mpellus, roots of, innocuous Alauda ahensis, ii. 137. in cold climates, ii. 264. ALEIN, on " Golden Hamburgh " fowls, Acorns calamus, sterility of, ii. 154. i. 259; figure of the hook-billed ACOSTA,on fowls in South America at duck, i. 291. its discovery, i. 249. ALBINISM, i. 114, 460. Acropcra, number of seeds in, ii. 373. ALBINO, negro, attacked by insects, ii. ADAM,&I., origin of Cytisus adami, i. 214. 416. ALBINOES, heredity of, i. 454. ADAM, W., on consanguineous mar- ALBINUS, thickness of the epidermis on riages, ii. 103. the palms of the hands in man, ii. ADAMS,on hereditary diseases, i. 451. 287. ADVANCEMENTin scale of organisation, ALCO, i. 32, ii. 80. i. 8. ALDROVANDI, on rabbits, i. 108; de- Bgilops triticoides, observations of scription of the nun pigeon, i. 164; Fabre and Godron on, i. 330; in- on the fondness of the Dutch for creasing fertility of hybrids of, with pigeons in the seventeenth century, wheat, ii. 88. i. 215 ; notice of several varieties of Bsculus pavia, tendency of, to become pigeons, i. 217-220; on the breeds of double, ii. 152. fowls, i. 259; on the origin of the Bthusa q,napiwn, ii. 331. domestic duck, i. 292. AFFINITY, sexual elective, ii. 163. QLEFIELD, Dr., on the varieties of peas 430 ALEXANDER. INDEX. ANTIQUA. -- - and their specific unity, i. 345; on the varieties of the potato, i. 350, the varieties of beans, i. 349. 351 ; on crossing varieties of the ALEXANDERthe Great, his selection of melon, i. 430; on reversion in the Indian cattle, ii. 186. barberry, i. 410. ALGE, retrogressive metamorphosis in, ANDERSON, Mr., on the reproduction of ii. 354; division of zoospores of, ii. the weeping ash by seed, i. 462; on 372. the cultivation of the tree paeony in ALLEN, J., birds in United States, ii. China, ii. 189. 271. ANDEBBSON, Mr., on the Damara, Bechu- ~LLEN,W., on feral fowls, i. 249, ii. ana, and Namaqua cattle, i. 91; on 7. the cows of the Damaras, ii. 290; ALLMAN, Professor, on a monstrous selection practised by the Damaras Saxifraga geum, ii. 150 ; on the Hy- and Namaquas, ii. 192 ; on the use of droida, ii. 354, 364. grass-seeds and the roots of reeds as ALMOND,i. 357; antiquitr ;?, ii. 425; food in South Africa, i. 326. bitter, not eaten by mice, ii. 218. Anemone coronaria, doubled by selection, Alnzis glutinosa, and incana, hybrids of, ii. 185. ii. 111. ANGINA pectoris, hereditary, occurring ALPACA,selection of, ii. 192. at a certain age, ii. 55. Althcea rosea, i. 402, ii. 85. ANGLESEA,cattle of, i. 84. AmaryZZis, ii. 120. ANGOLAsheep, i. 98. Amaryllis vittuta, effect of foreign pollen ANGORA,change in hair of animals at, on, i. 431. ii. 268; cats of, i. 47, 49; rabbits of, AMAUROSIS,hereditary, i. 453. i. 110, 127. Amblystoma lurida, ii. 358. ANIMALS, domestication of, facilitated AMERICA,limits within which no use- by fearlessness of man, i. 20 ; refusal ful plants have been furnished by, i. of wild, to breed in captivity, ii. 131 ; 327 ; colours of feral horses in, i. 63- compound, individual peculiarities of, 61; Xorth, native cultivated plants reproduced by budding, i. 398 ; varia- of, i. 329; skin of feral pig from, i. tion by selection in useful qualities 80 ; South, variations in cattle of, i. of, ii. 205. 92, 95. ANNUALplants, rarity of bud-variation AMJION,on the persistency of colour in in, i. 440. horses, i. 465. ANOXALIESin the osteology of the Amygdalus perska, i. 357-365, 398. horse, i. 52. Anagullis arvensis, ii. 173. ANOMALOUS breeds of pigs, i. 78; of ANALOGOUSvariation, i. 442, ii. 341- cattle, i. 92. 345; in horses, i. 58; in the horse Anser albifrons, characters of, repro- and ass, i. 67 ; in fowls, i. 255-257. duced in domestic geese, i. 303. Anus boschns, i. 291, ii. 14; skull of, Anser czgyptiacus, i. 296, ii. 44. figured, i. 297. Anser canadensis, ii. 140. “ANCON” sheep of Massachusetts, i. Awrfm, the original of the domes- 104, ii. 70. tic goose, i. 302 ; fertility of cross of, ANDALUSIANfowls, i. 238. with domestic goose, i. 303. ANDALUSIANrabbits, i. 109. ANSON, on feral fowls in the Ladrones, ANDERSON,J., on the origin of British i. 249. sheep, i. 98; on the selection of ANTAGONISMbetween growth and re- qualities in cattle, ii. 180; on a one- production, ii. 379. eared breed of rabbits, i. 112; on the Anthemis nobilis, bud-variation in inheritance of characters from a one- flowers of, i. 404 ; becomes single in eared rabbit, and three-legged bitch, poor soil, ii. 151. i. 456 ;on the persistency of varieties ANTHERS,contabescence of, ii. 149. of peas, i. 349 ; on the production of ANTIGUA,cats of, i. 48 ; changed fleece early peas by selection, ii. 185; on of sheep in, i. 102. --_ AKTIRBHINUM. INDEX. AUSTRALIA. 431 Antirrhinum majus, peloric, i. 389, ii. ARUM,Polynesian varieties of, ii. 243. 83, 46, 150; double-flowered, ii. 151 j Ascaris, number of eggs of, ii. 373. bud-variation in, i. 407. ASH, varieties of the, i. 384 ; weeping, ANTS, individual recognition of, ii. 238. i. 385 j simple-leaved, ibid. ; bud- APHIDES,attacking pear-trees, ii. 217 ; variation in, i. 408 ; effects of graft development of, ii. 361-363. upon the stock in the, i. 418; pro- APOPLEXY,hereditary, occurring at a duction of the blotched Breadalbane, certain age, ii. 54. ibid. ; weeping, capricious reproduc- APPLE, i. 369-3723 fruit of, in Swiss tion Gf, by seed, i. 462. lake-dwellings, i. 335 ; rendered fasti- Asinus burchellii, i. 67. gate by heat in India, i. 385; bud- Asinus hemionus, ii. 17. variation in the, i. 401 ; with dimi- Asinus indicus, ii. 17, 22. diate fruit, i. 425,426; with two Asinus quagga, i. 67. kinds of fruit on the same branch, i. Asinus toeniopus, ii. 16 ; the original of 425 ; artificial fecundation of, i. 432 ; the domestic ass, i. 65. St. Valdry, i. 432, ii. 150 ; reversion ASPARAGUS,increased fertility of culti- in seedlings of, ii. 4; crossing of vated, ii. 91. varieties of, ii. 110; growth of the, Ass, early domestication of the, i. 65 ; in Ceylon, ii. 266; winter majetin, breeds of, i6id.; small size of, in not attacked by coccus, ii. 217; India, ibid. ;stripes of, i. 66, 67 ; ii. flower-buds of, attacked by bull- 343 ; dislike of, to cross water, i. 190 ; finches, ibid. ;American, change of, reversion in, ii. 16, 17, 22 j hybrid when groan in England, ii. 264. of the, with mare and zebra, ii. 16 ; APRICOT,i. 365, 366; glands on the prepotency of the, over the horse, ii. leaves of, ii. 217 j analogous variation 43; crossed with wild ass, ii. 190; in the, ii. 341. variation and selection of the, ii. 222. Aquila fusca, copulating in captivity, ASSYRIANsculpture of a masti3 i. 17. ii. 137. ASTERS, i. 46'3, ii. 307. Aquilegia vulgaris, i. 359 j ii. 323. ASTHMA, hereditary, i. 452, ii. 55. ARAB boarhound, described by Har- $TAVISY. See Reversion. court, i. 17. ATITELSTAN, his care of horses, ii. 187. Arabis blepharophylla and A. soyeri, ATKINSON, Mr., on the sterility of the effects of crossing, i. 431. Tarroo silk-moth in cmfinement, ii. Aralia trifoliata, bud-variation in leaves 141. of, i. 408. AUBERGINE, ii. 68. ARAUCARIAS,young, variable resistance AUDUBON, on feral hybrid ducks, i. of, to frost, ii. 299. 200, ii. 20 j on the domestication of ARCHANQEL pigeon, ii. 226. wild ducks on the Mississippi, i. 292 ; ARCTICregions, variability of plants on the wild cock turkey visiting and shells of, ii. 244. domestic hens, i. 308; fertility of Aria vestita, grafted on thorns, i. 413. Fringilla ciris in captivity, ii. 137 ; ARISTOPHANES,fowls mentioned by, i. fertility of Columba migrutoria and 238. leucocephala in captivity, ii. 139; ARISTOTLE,on solid-hoofed pigs, i. 78 ; breeding of Anser canadensis in cap- domestic duck unknown to, i. 292; tivity, ii. 140. on the assumption of male characters AUDUBON and Bachman, on the change by old hens, ii. 26. of coat in Ovis montana, i. 103 ; ste- ARNI, domestication of the, i. 86. rility of Sciurus cinerecr in confine- ARNOLD,Mi-., experiments of pollen on ment, ii. 135. the maize, i. 431. AURICULA, effect of seasonal conditions ARRESTSof development, ii. 306-310. on the, ii. 263 ; blooming of, ii. 339. ARTERIES, increase of anastomosing PUSTRALIA, no generally useful plants branches of, when tied, ii. 290. derived from, i. 328; useful plants ARU Islands, wild pig of, i. 70. of, enumerated by Hooker, i. 328. 432 AUSTRIA. INDEX. BATES.

AUSTRIA,heredity of oharacter in em- BALDNESS,in man, inherited, ii. 319; perors of, ii. 40. with deficiency in teeth, ii. 319,320. AUTENRIETH,on persistency of colour BALLANCE,Mr., on the effects of in- in horses, i. 465. terbreeding on fowls, ii. 105; on AVA, horses of, i. 56. variation in the eggs of fowls, i. 261. Aiiena fatwx, cultivability of, i. 330. BaZZota nigra, transmission of variegated ‘BYEEN Akbery,’ pigeons mentioned in leaves in, i. 409. the, i. 158, 163, 194, 215, 217, 218. BAMBOO,varieties of the, ii. 243. AYRES, W. P., on bud-variation in BANANA, variation of the, i. 396, ii. pelargoniums, i. 403. 243; bud-variation in the, i. 401; Azalea indica, bud-variation in, i. 402. sterility of the, ii. 256. AZARA,on the feral dugs of La Plata, BANTU fowls, i. 241 ; Sebright, origin i. 28; on the crowing of domestic of, ii. 74; sterility of, ii. 79. with wild cats in Paraguay, i. 47 ; BARB (pigeon), i. 151, 153, 220, ii. on hornlike processes in horses, i. 52 ; 212; figure of, i. 152; figure of on curled hair in horses, i. 56, ii. lower jaw of, i. 173. 189, 318; on the colours of feral BARBS,of wheat, i. 331. horses, i. 64, ii. 246 ; on the cattle of BARBERRY, dark or red-leaved variety, Pvraguay and La Plata, i. 86,89, 92, i. 385, 462 ; reversion in suckers of ii. 246; on a hornless bull, ii. 190, seedless variety, i. 410. on the increase of cattle in South BARBUT,J., on the dogs of Guinea, i. America, ii. 98; on the growth of 26; on the domestic pigeons in horns in the hornless cattle of Cor- Guinea, i. 195; fowls not native. in rientes, ii. 13 ; on the “Niata” cattle, Guinea, i. 249, i. 94 ; on naked quadrupeds, ii. 268 ; BARKING, acquisition of the habit of, on a race of black-skinned fowls in by various dogs, i. 28. South America, i. 243, ii. 194; on BARLEY, wild, i. 330; of the lake- a variety of maize, i. 339. dwellings, i. 335-337; ancient variety of, ii. 425. BABINGTON,C. C., on the origin of the BARNES,Mr., production of early peas plum, i. 367 ; British species of the by selection, 11. 185. genus Rosa, i. 390; distinCtness of BARNET,Mr., on the intercrossing of Viola lutea and tricolor, i. 392. strawberries, i. 373 ; diceciousness of BACHYANN,Mr., on the turkey, ii. 250. the hautbois strawberry, i. 375 ; on &e also Audubon. the Scarlet American strawberry, ii. BADGER,breeding in confinement, ii. 184. 134. BARTH, Dr., use of grass-seeds as food (‘BAGADOITEN-TAUBE,” i. 148. in Central Africa, i. 325. BAILY, Mr.,.on the effect of selection BARTLETT, A. D., on the origin of on fowls, 11. 182 : on Dorking- fowls, ‘‘ Himalayan ” rabbits by intercross- ii. 224. ing, i. 113; on the feral rabbits of BMRD,S., on the origin of the turkey, Porto Santo, i. 119; on geese with i. 308. reversed feathers on the head and BAKER,Mr., on heredity in the horse, neck, i. 303; on the young of the i. 455 ; on the degeneration of the black-shouldered peacock, i. 306 ; on horse by neglect, ii. 225; orders of a variety of the turkey, i. 309 ; size Henrys VII. and VIII. for the of hybrids, ii. 112 ; on the breeding destruction of undersized mares, ii. of the Felida: in captivity, ii. 133; 188. so-called hybrids, ii. 316. BAEEWELL,change in the sheep effected BARTZAY,on the black wolf-dog of by, ii. 182. Florida, i. 23. BALANCEYENT,ii. 335,336 ; of growth, BATES,H. W., refusal of wild animals lam of, 335. to breed in captivity, ii. 132, 135; BALDHEAD(pigeon), i. 158. sterility of American monkep BATBACIIIA. INDEX. BENNETT. 433

~~ captivity, ii. 136 ; sterility of tamed on the canary-bird, i. 311, 465, ii. guans, ii. 139. 145 ; German superstition about the BATRACHIA,regeneration of lost parts turkey, i. 309 ; occurrence of horns in, ii. 358. in hornless breeds of sheep, ii. 3; BEACH,raised, in Peru, containing heads hybrids of the horse and ass, ii. 43; of maize, i. 338. ci-osses of tailless fowls, ii. 70 ; diffi- BEAK,variability of, in fowls, i. 271 ; culty of pairing dove-cot and fancy individual differences of, in pigeons, pigeons, ii. 82; fertility of tame i. 168 ; correlation of, with the feet ferrets and rabbits, ii. 90; fertility in pigeous, i. 180-184. of wild sow, ibid. ;difficulty of breed- BEALE,Lionel, on the contents of cells, ing caged birds, ii. 137 ; comparative ii. 372; on the multiplication of in- fertility of Psittacus erithacus in cap- fectious atoms, ii. 372. tivity, ii. 138 ; on changes of plumage BEANS,i. 349 ; of Swiss lake-dwellings, in captivity, ii. 141 ; liability of i. 337; varieties of, produced by light-coloured cattle to the attacks selection, ii. 203 ; French and scarlet, of flies, ii. 214; want of exercise a variable resistance of, to frost, ii. cause of variability, ii. 244 ; effect of 299, 305 ; superiority of native seed privation of light upon the plumage of, ii. 305 ; a symmetrical variation of birds, ii. 270 ; on a sub-variety of of scarlet, ii. 349; experiments on the monk-pigeon, ii. 343. kidney, i. 314; with monstrous BECK,Mr., constitutional differences in stipules and abortive leaflets, ii. pelargoniums, i. 388. 335. BECKMANN, on changes in the odours BEARDpigeon, i. 158. of plants, ii. 264. BEARS,breeding in captivity, ii. 134. BEDDOE,Dr., correlation of complexion BEASLEY,J., reversion in crossed cattle, with consumption, ii. 329. ii. 15. BEE, persistency of character of, ii. BEATON,D., effect of soil upon straw- 222, 241; intercrossinq, ii. 107; berries, i. 376 ; on varieties of pelar- conveyance of pollen of peas by, i. gonium, i. 388, ii. 263, 301; bud- 348. variation in Gladiolus colvdii, i. 407 ; BEE OPHRYS, self-fertilisation of, ii. cross between Scotch kail and cab- 69. bage, ii. 76 ;hybrid gladiolus, ii. 121 ; BEECH,dark-leaved, i. 385, 462 ; fern- constant occurrence of new forms leaved, reversion of, i. 409 ; weeping, among seedlings, ii. 221; on the non-production of, by seed, i. 462. doubling of the Composits, ii. 307. BEECHYY,horses of Loochoo Islands, i. BECHUANAcattle, i. 91. 56. BECHSTEIN,on the burrowing of wolves, BEET, i. 344 ; increast of sugar in, b3 i. 28; Spitz Dog, i. 32; origin of selection, ii. 185. the Newfoundland dog, i. 44 ;crossing Begonia frigida, singular vaviety of, i. of domestic and wild swine, i. 69 ; on 389 ; sterility of, ii. 150. the Jacobin pigeon, i. 162, 219; BELGIANrabbit, i. 110. notice of swallow-pigeons, i. 164 ; on BELL,T., statement that white cattle a fork-tailed pigeon, i. 164; varia- have coloured ears, i. 89. tions in the colour of the croup in BELL, W., bud-variatiou in Paritium pigeons, i. 193 ; on the German dove- tricuspis, i. 402. cot pigeon, i. 195 ; fertility of mon- BELLINGERI,observations on gestation grel-pigeons, i. 202; on hybrid in the dog, i. 31 ; on the fertility of turtle-doves, i. 203 ; on crossing the dogs and cats, ii. 90. pigeon with Columba ms,C. pahm- BELON, on high-flying pigeons in Pa- bus, Turtur risoria, and T. vulgaris, i. phlagonia, i. 219; varieties of the 202; development of spurs in the goose, i. 305. silk-hen, i. 269 ; on Polish fowls, i. BENGUELA,cattle of, i. 92. 269, 276; on crested birds, i. 269; BENBETT, Dr. G., pigs of the Pacific 434 BENNETT. INDEX. BLYTH. -- Islands, i. 73, ii. 64; dogs of the cation of the pigeon in Egypt, i. Pacific Islands, ibid.; varieties of cul- 214; notice of bantam fowls in a tivated plants in Tahiti, ii. 243. Japanese encycloptzdia, i. 241, 259. BENNETT,Mr., on the fallow deer, ii. BIRCH,WYRLEY, on silver-grey rabbits, 81. i. 113, 114. BENTHAM,G., number and origin of BIRDS, sterility caused in, by change of cultivated plants, i. 323 ; on Phaseo- conditions, ii. 136-141. lus, i. 350; cereals all cultivated BLADDER-NUT,tendency of the, to be- varieties, i. 330; species of the come double, ii. 152. orange group, i. 355 ; distinctions BLAINE, Mr., on wry-legged terriers, of almond and peach, i. 358; Bri- ii. 232. tish species of Rosa, i. 390; identity BLAINVILLE,origin and history of the of Viola lutea and tricolor, i. 392. dog, i. 15-17; variations in the Berberis vulgaris, i. 410, i. 462. number of teeth in dogs, i. 36; Berberis wallichii, indifference of, to cli- variations in the number of toes in mate, ii. 148. dogs, i. 37; on mummies of cats, i. BERJEAU,on the history of the dog, i. 45; on the osteology of solid-hoofed 17, 18. pigs, i. 78; on feral Patagonian and BERKELEY,G. F., production of hen- N. American pigs, i. 80. cocks in a strain of game-fowls, i. " BLASS-TAUBE,"i. 163. 265. BLEEDING,hereditary, i. 452 ; sexual BERKELEY,M. J., crossing of varieties hiitation of excessive, ii. 48. of the pea, i. 428 ; effect of foreign BLENDINGof crossed races, time occu- pollen on grapes, i. 430; on hybrid pied by the, ii. 64. plants, ii. 112 ; analogy between BLINDNESS,hereditary, i. 454; at s pollen of highly-cultivated plants certain age, ii. 54; associated with and hybrids, ii. 256 ; on Hungarian colour of hair, ii. 322. kidney-beans, ii. 265 ; failure of In- BLOODHOUNDS,degeneration of, caused dian wheat in England, ii. 297. by interbreeding, ii. 100. BERNARD,inheritance of disease in the BLZTMENBACH,on the protuberance of horse, i. 455. the skull in Polish fowls, i. 269 ; on BERNARD,C., independence of the or- the effect of circumcision, i. 467; gans of the, body, ii. 364; special inheritance of a crooked finger, i. affinities of the tissues, ii. 375, 469; on badger-dogs and other BERNHARDI,varieties of plants with varieties of' the dog, ii. 205; on laciniated leaves, ii. 341. Hydra, ii. 283 ; on the " nisus forma- Bernicla antarcbica, i. 303. tivus," ii. 284. BERTERO,on feral pigeons in Juan Fer- BLYTH, E., on the pariah dog, i. 25; nandez, i. 200. hybrids of dog and jackal, i. 33; Betula alba, i. 46 1. early domestication of cats in India, BEWICIC,on the British wild cattle, i. i. 45 ; origin of domestic cat, i. 46 ; 87. crossing of domestic and wild cats, BIANCONI,Prof., on the skulls of dogs, ibid.; on Indian cats resembling Felis i. 35. chaus, i. 47; on striped Burmese BIBLE, reference to breeding studs of ponies, i. 61; on the stripes of the horses in, i. 57 ; references to domes- ass, i. 65 ; on Indian wild pigs, i. 69 ; tic pigeons in the, i. 214 ; indications on humped cattle, i. 83 ; occurrence of selection of sheep in the, ii. 186; of 230s frontasus in Irish crannoges, notice of mules in the, ;bid. i. 85 ; fertile crossing of zebus and BIDWELL, Mr., on self-impotence in common cattle, i. 86 ; on the species Amaryllis, ii, 120. ofsheep, i. 97; on the fat-tailedlndian Bignonia, self-sterility of, ii. 117. sheep, i. 99; origin of the goat, i. BIRCH, weeping, i. 413, 461. 105 ; on rabbits breeding in India, i BIRCH, Dr. S., on the ancient domesti- 116; number of tnil-feathers in fan- BOETHICS. 1NDES. BOSXAN. 435 - tds, i. 153 ; Lotan tumbler pigeons, BOMBYCIDZ,wingless females of, ii. i. 157; number of tail-feathers in 289. Ectopistes, i. 67 ; on Coluinba aflnis, Bombyx hesperus, ii. 294. i. 192; pigeons roosting in trees, i. Bombyx huttoni, i. 318. 190; on Columbn Zeuconota, i. 191; Bombyx mori, i. 317-321. on Columba intermedia of Strickland, BONAFOUS,on maize, i. 338, 339. i. 193 ; variation in colour of croup BONAPARTE, number Gf species cf in pigeons, i. 193, 191, 206 ; volun- Columbids, i. 139; number of tnil- tary domestication of rock-pigeons in feathers in pigeons, i. 167 : size of India, i. 194; feral pigeons on the the feet in Columbida, i. 183; on Hudson, i. 200; occurrence of sub- Columha guinea, i. 192; Columba species of pigeons, i. 214; notice of turricola, rupstris and schimperi, i. pigeon-fanciers in Delhi, &c., i. 215 ; 193. hybrids of Gallus sonneratii and the Bonutea speciosa, development of ovary domestic hen, i. 245; supposed hy- of, i. 434. bridity of Gallus temminckii, i. 246 ; BONAVIA,Dr., growth of cauliflowers variations and domestication of Gal- in India, ii. 301. lus bankiva, i. 247, 248; crossing of BONER,Mr., semi-feral sheep, ii. 5. wild and tame fowls in Burmah, i. BONES,removal of portions of, ii. 286 ; 248 : restricted range of the larger regeneration of, ii. 284 ; growth and gallinaceous birds, i. 249; feral fowls repair of, ii. 377. in the Nicobar Islands, i. 249 ; black- BONIZZI,on pigeons, i. 138, 170. skiuned fowls occurring near Cal- BONNET, on the salamander, ii. 35'7, cutta, i. 269 ; weight of Gallus ban- 385; theory of reproduction, ii. 351, kiva, i. 286; degeneration of the 350. turkey in India, i. 310, ii. 267; on BORCIIMEYER,experiments with the the colour of gold-fish, i. 312; re- seeds of the weeping ash, i. 463. version from a cross, ii. 15; on the BORECOLE,i. 341. Ghor-Khur (Asinus indicus), ii. 17; BORELLI,on Polish fowls, i. 260. on Asinus hemionus, ii. 17; number BORNEO,fowls of, with tad-bands, i. of eggs of Gallus bankiwa, ii. 90 ; on 246. the breeding of birds in captivity, ii. BORNXT,E., condition of the ovary in 140 ; co-existence of large and small hybrid Cisti: i. 415 ; self-impotence breeds in the same country, ii. 268 ; of hybrid Cisti, ii. 122. on the drooping ears of the elephant, BORROW,G., on pointers, i. 44. ii. 291 ; homology of leg and wing BORYDE SAINT-VINCENT, on gold-fish, feathers, ii. 315. i. 313. BOETHIUS on Scotch wild cattle, i. 88. Bos, probable origin of European do- BOITARDand CorbiB, on the breeds of mestic cattle from three species of, pigeons, i. 138; Lille pouter pigeon, i. 86. i. 145 ; notice of a gliding pigeon, i. Bos frontosm, i. 85. 164 ; variety of the pouter pigeon, i. Bos ,indicus, i. 82. 170 ; dove-cot pigeon, i. 194 ; cross- Bos longijkons. i, 83, 85, 86. ing pigeons, i. 202, ii. 75, 107; Bosprimigenius, i. 83-84, 86, ii. 98. sterility of hybrids of turtle-doves, i. Bos sondaicus, ii. 191. 203 ; reversion of crossed pigeons, i. Boa taurus, i. 82. 207, ii. 14 ; on the fantail, i. 218, ii. Bos trochoceros, i. 85. 42; on the trumpeter, ii. 42; pre- BOSC,heredity in foliage-varieties of the pqtency of transmission in silky fan- elm, i. 385. tail, ii. 42, 44; secondary sexual BOSSE,production of double flowers characters in pigeons, ii. 50 ; cross- from old seed, ii. 151. q of white and coloured turtle- BOSSI, on breeding dark-coloured silk- doves, ii 70; fertility of pigeons, ii. worms, i. 319. 91. &MAN, on dogs of Guinea, i. 40. $36 BOUCHARDAT. INDEX. BROOMFIELD. - BOUCHARDAT,on the vine disease, i. 409, 410; extinction of, ii. 421 ; of 354. domestic cats, i. 47-49; of pigs pro- BOUDIN,on local diseases, 5. 266 ; re- duced by crossing, i. 82 ; of cattle, i. sistance to cold of dark-complexioned 90, 94-97 ; of goats, i. 105. men, ii. 329. BREHM,on Codumba ad&, i. 192. ‘(BOULANS,” i. 143. BRENT,B. P., number of mammae in “ BOUTONd’Alep,” ii. 266. rabbits, i. 110 ; habit,s of the tumbler ROWEN, Prof., doubts as to the import- pigeon, i. 158; Laugher pigeon,i. 163; ance of inheritance, i. 446. colouring of the kite tumbler, i. 169 ; BOWMAN,Mr., hereditary peculiarities crossing of the pigeon with Columba in the human eye, i. 452-454 ; here- cenas, i. 202 ; mongrels of the trum- ditary cataract, ii. 56. peter pigeon, ii. 42 ; close interbreed- BRACE,Mr., on Hungarian cattle, i. 84. ing of pigeons, ii. 106; opinion on Brachycome iberidifolia, ii. 249. Aldrovandi’s fowls, i. 259 ; on stripes BRACTS,unusual development of, in in chickens, i. 262 ; on the combs of gooseberries, i. 377. fowls, i. 266; double-spurred Dorking BRADLEY,Mr., effect of grafts upon the fowls, i. 267; effect of’ crossing on stock in the ash, i. 418; effect of colour of plumage in fowls, i. 270; foreign pollen upon apples, i. 432; incubatory instinct of mongrels be- ou change of soil, ii. 128. tween non-setting varieties of fowls, “BRAHMAl’ootras,” a new breed of ii. 18 ; origin of the domestic duck, fowls, i. 258. i. 291 ; fertility of the hook-billed BRAIN, proportion of, in hares and duck, ibid. ; occurrence of the phi- rabbits, i. 130-134. mage of the wild duck in domestic BRANDT,Dr., origin of the goat, i. 105 ; breeds, i. 294 ; voice of ducks, i. 295 ; correlation of teeth and hair, ii. 321. occurrence of a short upper mandible Brassica, varieties of, with enlarged in crosses of hook-billed and common stems, li. 341. ducks, ibd. ; reversion in ducks pro- Brassica asperayolia, ii. 335. duced by crossing, ii. 14; variation of Brassica napus, i. 344. the canary-bird, i. 311 ; fashion in Brassica oleracea, i. 341. the canary, ii. 226 j hybrids of canary Bvassica rapa, i. 344, ii. 148. and finches, ii. 20. BRAUN,A., bud-rariation in the vine, BRICKELL,on raising nectarines from i. 400; in the currant, ibid; in seed, i. 360 ; on the horses of North dlirabilis jalapa, i. 407; in Cytisus Carolina, ii. 290. adLmi, i. 413; on reversion in the BRIPGES,Mr., on the dogs of Tierra del foliago of trees, i. 408 ; spontaneous Fuego, i. 41 ; on the selection of dcgs pr3duction of Cytisus purpureo-elon- by the Fuegians, ii. 191. gatus, i. 416; reversion of flowers BRIDGMAN,W. K., reproduction of ab- by stripes and blotches, ii. 11; ex- normal ferns, i. 408. cess of nourishment a source of BROCA,P., on the intercrossing sf dogs, variability, ii. 244. i. 32, 33; on hybrids of hare and BRAZIL,cattle of, i. 92. rabbit, i. 109 ; on the rumpless fowl, BREAD-FRUIT,varieties of, ii. 243; ste- i. 271; on the character of half- rility and variability of, ii. 256. castes, ii. 21 ; degree of fertility of BREE,W. T., bud-variation in Geranium mongrels, ii. 78 ; sterility of descend- pratense and Centcxurea cyanus, i. 404 ; ants of wild animals bred in cap- by tubers in the dahlia, i. 411 ; on the tivity, ii. 143. deafness of white cats with blue eyes, BROCCOLI,i. 341 ; rudimentary flowers ii. 322. in, ii. 307 ; tenderness of, ii. 301. BREEDING,high, dependent on inheri- BROMEHEAD,W., doubling of the Can- tance, i. 446,447. terbury Bell by selection, ii. 185. BREED&domestic, persistency of, ii. 233, BROOMFIELD,Dr., sterility of the ivy 423, 424 ; artificial and natural, ii. and Aconcs calamus, ii. 154. BRONCS. INDEX. BUXTOX. 437

Brmus secalinus, i. 331. tions, pinks, stocks, and snapdragons, BBONN,H. G., bud variation in Anthe- i. 406, 407 ; in wall-flowers, cycla- mis, i. 404 ; effects of cross-breeding men, Qhothera biennis, Gladiolus on the female, i. 436; on heredity colvillii, fuchsias, and Mirabilis jalap, in a one-horned cow, i. 456 ; propa- i. 407 ; in foliage of various trees, i. gation of a pendulous peach by seed, 408 ; cryptogamic plants, ibid. ; by i. 461 ; absorption of the minority in suckers in Pl~loxand barberry, i. 410 ; crossed races, ii. 65 ; on the crossing by tubers in the potato, ibid. ; in the of horses, ii. 70; fertility of tame dahlia, i. 411; by bulbs in hyacinths, rabbits and sheep, ii. 90 ; changes of lmutophyllum rniniatum, and tulips, plamage in captivity, ii. 141 ; on the Bid. ; in Qridia conchijora, i. 4i2 ; dahlia, ii. 249. in Hemerocallis, tbid. ;doubtful cases, BRONZEperiod, dog of, i. 19. i. 412413 ; in Cytisus adami, i. 413- BROWN,C. M., prepotency of a grey- 416; summary of observations on, hound, ii. 40. 437. BROWN,G., variations in the dentition BUFFON,on crossing the wolf and dog, of the horse, i. 52. i. 32 ; increase of' fertility by domes- BROWN-S~QUARD,Dr., inheritance of tication, ii. 89; improvement of artificially-produced epilepsy in the plants by unconscious selection, ii. guinea-pig, i. 468 ; inherited effects 200 ; theory of reproduction, ii. 370. of injuries, ibid. Bulimus, ii. 28. Brunswigicr, ii. 121. BULL, apparent influence of, on off- BRUSSELSsprouts, i. 341, ii. 425. spring, ii. 44. BuLo maximus, ii. 137. BULLACE,i. 366. BUCKLAND,F., on oysters, ii. 270; num- BULLDOG,degeneration of, in India, i. 39 ; ber of eggs in a codfish, ii. 373. recent niodifications of, i. 44. BUCKLE,Ah., doubts as to the impcr- BULLFINCH,breeding in captivity, ii. tance of inheritance, i. 446. 137 ; attacking flower-buds, ii. 217. BUCKLEY,Miss, carrier-pigeons roosting BULT, Mr., on the length of pouter in trees, i. 190. pigeons, i. 218. BUCKMAN,Prof., cultivation of Avena " B~NDTNERSCHWEIN,"i. 70. fatua, i. 330 ; cultivation of the wild BUNTING,reed, in captivity, ii. 141. parsnip, i. 344, ii. 185, 267 ; rever- BURDACII,crossing of domestic and wild sion in the parsnip, ii. 4. animals, i. 69 ; aversion of the wild BUCKWHEAT,injurious when in flower boar to barley, ii. 293. to white pigs, ii. 331. BURKE,Mr., inheritance in the horse, i. BUD and seed, close analogy of, i. 455. 444. Burlingtonia, ii. 116. BUD-REVERSION,ii. 10. BURMAH,cats of, i. 49. BUDS,adventitious, ii. 381. BURMESEponies, striped, i. 61. BUD-VARIATION,i. 397-444, ii. 242, BURNES,Sir A., on the Karakool sheep, 278, 279, 281 ; contrasted with semi- i. 102, ii. 268 ; varieties of the vine nal reproduction, i. 397 ; peculiar to in Cabool, i. 353 ; hawks, trained in plants, i. 398 ; in the peach, i. 360, Scinde, ii. 136 ; pomegranates pre 398; in plums, i. 399; in the cherry, ducing seed, ii. 152. ibid.; in grapes, ibid.; in the goose- BURR,FEARING, potato-grafting, i. 422. berry and currant, i. 400 ; pear and BURTONCONSTABLE, wild cattle at, i. 88. apple, i. 401 ; and in the banana, ca- " BURZEL-TAUBEN,"i. 156. mellia, hawthorn, Azalea indicia, and BUWRAHcarrier, i. 148. Paritium tricmpis, i. 402 ; in the Bzlteo vulgaris, copulation of, in captiv- holiyhock and pelargonium, ibid. j itv. ii. 137. in Gwanizlm pratense and the chrg- BU;TERFLIES, polymorphic, ii. 394. mnthcmum, i. 404; in roses, i. 390, BUXTON,Mr., parrots breeding in Nor- 404-406 ; in sweet Williams, carna- folk, ii. 138. 438 BUZAREINGUES. INDEX. CARLIER. -- BUZAREINGUES,GIROU DE, inheritance 53 ; diminished fertility of, ii. 145 ; of tricks, i. 450. standard of perfection in, ii. 179; analogous variation in, ii. 341. CABANIS,pears grafted on the quince, CANCER,heredity of, i. 452, ii. 56. ii. 246. CANFIELD,Dr., on horses with curled CABBAGE, i. 341-344 ; varieties of, i. hair, i. 58 ; on feral horses in North 341; unity of character in flowers America, i. 64. and seeds of, i. 342; cultivated by CANINE teeth, development of the, in ancient Celts, ibid. ; classification of mares, ii. 310. varieties of, ibid. ;ready crossing of, i. Canis alopex, i. 30. 343, ii. 68, 76,110 ; origin of, i. 343 ; Canis antarcticus, i. 20. increased fertility of, when culti- Canis argentatus, ii. 134. vated, ii. 91 ; growth of, in tropical Canis auras, i. 30. countries, ii. 266. Canis cancrivorus, domesticated and CABOOL,vines of, i. 353. crossed in Guiana, i. 23. CABRAL,on early cultivation in Brazil, Canis cinereo-variegatus, i. 30. i. 329. Canis fulvus, i. 30. CACTUS, growth of cochineal on, in Canis ingce, the naked Peruvian dog, India, ii. 265. i. 24. CABAR, Bos primigenius wild in Europe Canis Zatrans, i. 27; resemblance of, to in the time of, i. 84 ; notice of fowls the Hare Indian dog, i. 22 ; one of the in Britain, i. 258; notice of the im- original stocks, i. 26. portation of horses by the Celts, ii. Canis lupaster, i. 25. 187. ranis lupus, var. occidentalis, resem- CAFFRE fowls, i. 241. blance of, to North American dogs, i. CAFFRES,different kinds of cattle pos- 21 ; crossed with dogs, i. 23 ; one of sessed by the, i. 91. the original stocks, i. 26. “ CAMAS,” a breed of sheep, i. 99. ?anis mesomelas, i. 26, 30. Cairina moschata, i. 191. Canis primceuus, tamed by Mr. Hodgson, CALCEOLARIAS,i. 388; ii. 129 ; erects i. 27. of seasonal conditions on, ii. 263; 7anis sabbar, i. 25. peloric flowers in, ii. 338. Fanis simensis, possible original of grey- CALDWELL,J., sporting of sugar-cane, hounds, i. 34. i. 410. histhaleb, i. 30. “ CALONGOS,”a Columbian breed of 7anis vankgatus, i. 30. cattle, i. 92. ~ANNINC), A. S. G., the japanned pea- CALVER,Mr., on a seedling peach pro- cock, i. 305-307. ducing both peaches and nectarines, YANTERBURY Bell, doubled by selection, i. 362. ii. 185. CALYX,segments of the, converted into :APE of Good Hope, different kinds of carpels, ii. 387. cattle at the, i. 91 ; no useful plants CAMEL,its dislike to crossing water, i. derived from the, i. 328. 190. ~APERCAILZIE, breeding in captivity, ii. Camglliz, bud-variations in, i. 401 ; re- 139. cognition of varieties cf, ii. 238 ;va- 7apra ct.gagrzcs and C. falconeri, pro- riety in, hardiness of, ii. 299. bable parents of domestic goat, i. 105. CAMERON,D., on the cultivation of :APSICUM, i. 396. Alpine plants, ii. 147. :ARDAN, on a variety of the walnut, i. CAMERONN,Baron, value of English 379 ; on grafted walnuts, ii. 247. blood in race-horses, i. 456. :ARDOON, ii. 7. Campanula medium, ii. 185. :ares rigida, local sterility of the, ii. CANARY-BIRD,i. 311 ; conditions of in- 154. heritance in, i. 465; hybrids of, ii. :ARLIER, early selection of sheep, ii. 20 j period of perfect plumage in, ii. 188. CARLISLE. INDEX. CATTLE. 439

CARLISLE,Sir -4., inheritance of pecu- purpureus and C. laburnum, i. 416; liarities, i. 450, 452 ; of polydacty- trifitcial orange, i. 418 ; diKe Sently- lism, i. 458. coloured flowers iu the wild Vioka ‘‘ CARME” pigeon, i. 164. lufea, i. 440; sterility of the horse- CARNATION,bud-variation in, i. 406 ; radish, ii. 154. variability of, i. 394; striped, pro- YASTELNAU, on Brazilian cattle, i. 93. duced by crossing red and white, i. ~ASTRATIOX,assumption of female cha- 426 ;effect of conditions of life on the, racters caused by, ii. 26, 27. ii. 262. Cnsuarius benwttii, ii. 140. CARNIVORA,general fertility of, in cap :AT, domestic, i. 45-50; early doniesti- tivity, ii. 133. cation and probable origin of the, i, CAROLINE Archipelago, cats of, i. 45, 46; intercrossing of, with wild 49. species, i. 46,47 ;variations af, i. 47- CARP, ii. 222. 49 ; feral, i. 49, ii. 6 ; anomalous, i. CARPELS,variation of, in cultivated Cu- 50 i pqlydactylism in, i. 458 ; black, curbitacee, i. 382. indications of stripes in ynung, ii. 30 ; CARPENTER,W. B., regeneration of bone, tortoiseshell, ii. 49 ; effects of crossing ii. 284 ; number of eggs in an Ascaris, in, ii. 63 ;fertility of. ii. 89 ;difficulty ii. 373. of selection in, ii. 220, 222 ; length of Curpinus betulus, ii. 385. intestines in, ii. 292 ; white with blue Caqophuga oceanica, ii. 408. eyes, deafness of, ii. 322; with tufted CARR,Nr., effect of changed conditions, ears, ii. 343. ii. 94. :ATARACT, hereditary, i. 453, ii. 56. CARRIERpigeon, i. 146-149 ; English, ZATERPILLARS, effect of changed food on, ibid.; figured, i. 147; skull figured, ii. 270. i. 172; history of the, i. 221 ; Persian, Wleya Ieopoldii, i. 431. i. 148 ; Bussorah, ibid. ; Bagadotten, hmN, G., colour of feral horses in skull figured, i. 172; lower jaw North America, i. ti& figured, i. 174. :ATON, Judge, wild turkey, ii. 91. CARRI&RE,origin of radish, i. 345 ; in- :ATrL>:, European, their probable origin termediate form between the almond from three original species, i. 82-85; and the peach, i. 359 ; glands of peach- humped, or zebus, i. 82; inter- leaves, i. 364 ; bud-variation in the crossing of, i. 86, 94, 97; wild, of vine, i. 398 ; bud-variation in the rose, Chillingham, Hamilton, Chartley, i. 406 ; inheritance in purple-leaved Burton Constable, and Gisburne, i. trees, i. 471 ; on variation, i. 439, 87, ii. 97 ; colour of feral, i. 88-89, 441, 442 ; grafts of Aria vestita upon ii. 180; British breeds of, i. 90, 91; thorns, i. 413 ; variability of hybrids South African breeds of, i. 91 ; South of Erythrim, ii. 253. American breeds of, i. 92, ii. 189; CARROT,wild, effects of cultivation on Niata,i. 92,94,ii. 190,193,332; effects the, i. 345; reversion in the, ii. 5; of food and climate on, i. 94; effects run wild, ii. 7 ; increased fertility of of selection on, i. 95, 96 ; Dutch-but- cultivated, ii. 91 ;experiments on the, tocked, i. 452 ; hornless, production ii. 267; acclimatisation of the, in of horns in, ii. 313; reversion in, India, ii. 302. when crossed, ii. 15; wildness of Carthamus, abortion of the pappus in, hybrid, ii. 19 ; short-horned, prepo- ii. 307. tency of, ii. 40; wild, influence of CARTIER, cultivation of native plants crossing and segregation on, ii. 63 ; in Canada, i. 329. crosses of, ii. 74, 82, 96 ; of Falklaud CARYOPWYLLACEB,frequency of conta- Island’s, ii. 80; mutual fertility of all bescence in the, ii. 149. varieties of, ii. 88; effects of inter- CASPARY, bud-variation in the rnoss- breeding on, ii. 96, 97; short-horn, rose, i. 405 ; on the ovules and pollen sterility of, ii. 97 ; effects of careful of CytisuS, i. 415 ; crossing of Cytisu~ selection on, ii. 178, 183 ; naked, of 440 CAULIFLOWER. INDEX. CHINA.

Colunibia, ii. 189 ; crossed with wilc Cereus speciosissimus and phyllanth,m, re- banteng in Java, ii. 191; with re, version in hybrids nf, i. 425. versed hair in Banda Oriental, ii Ceraus canadensis, ii. 141. 190; selection of trifling character: Cervus dam, ii. 99. in, ii. 193 ; fashion in, ii. 195 ; simi. CETACEA,correlation of dermal system larity of best races of, ii. 227 ;uncon. and teeth in the, ii. 321. scious selection in, ii. 198 ; effects 0, CEYLON, cats of, i. 48 ; pigeon-Lancying natural selection on anomalous breeds in, i. 416. of, ii. 211, 212 ; light-colohred, at. CHAMISSO, on seeding bread-fruit, ij. tacked by flies, ii. 214, 330; Jersey 152. rapid improvement of, ii. 220 ;effectc CHANNEL Islands, breeds of cattle in, i. of disuse of parts in, ii. 289; rudi. 83. mentary horns in, ii. 306 ; supposed CHAPMAN,Professor, peach-trees pro- influence of humidity on the hair of ducing nectarines, i. 362. ii. 318; white spots of, liable tc CHAPUIS, F., sexual peculiarities in disease, ii. 331 ; supposed analogour pigeons, i. 170; effect produced by variation in, ii. 341 ; displacemenl first male upon the subsequent pro- of long horned by short-horned, ii geny of the female, i. 437; sterility 421. of the union of some pigeons, ii. 146. CAULIFLOWER,i. 341 ; free-seeding of CHARACTERS, fixity of, ii. 225 ; latent, in India, ii. 301 ; rudimentary flowerr ii. 23-31, 393, 394; continued di- in, ii. 306. vergence of, ii. 227; antagonistic, ii. CAVALIERpigeon, ii. 75. 395. Cavia aperea, ii. 134. CHARDIN,abundance of pigeons in Per- CAY (Cebus azarm), sterility of, in con- sia, i. 215. finement, ii. 136. CHARLEYAGNE,orders as to the selection Cehazar(Zr, ii. 136. of stallions, ii. 187. Cecidomyia, larval development of, ii CHARTLEY,wild cattle of, i. 88. 273, 353,363; and Misocampus, i. 5. CHAT^, reversion of the upper seeds in CEDARSof Lebanon and Atlas, i. 387. the pods of stocks, ii. 340. CELERY,turnip-rooted, i. 344; run wild, CHAUNDY,Mr., crossed varieties of cab- ii. 7. bage, ii. 110. CELL-THEORY,ii. 366. CHEETAH, general sterility of, in cap- CeZosM cristata, i. 389. tivity, ii. 133. CEISUS, on the selection of seed-corn, i. Cheiranthw cheair; i. 407. 336, ii. 187. CHERRIES, i. 368, 369 ;bud-variation in, CELTS, early cultivation of the cabbage i. 399; white Tartarian, ii. 215; by the, i. 342 ; selection of cattle and variety of, with curled petals, ii. 218 ; horses by the, ii. 187. period of vegetation of, changed by Cemhrus, seeds of a, used as food, i. forcing, ii. 301. 326. CHEVREUL, on crossing fruit-trees, ii. Cataurea cyanis, bud-va-iation in, i. 11@. 404. C.~IIXENS, differences in characters of, i. CEPHALOPODA,spermatophores of, ii. 261, 262; white, liable to gapes, ii. 379. 213, 830. Cerasus padus, yellow-fruited, i. 462. ;HIWE, ii. 265. GrcoleptesJsterility of, in captivity, ii. YHILE, sheep of, i. 99. 134. ~HILLINGHAM cattle, identical with Bos Cercopithecus, breeding of a species of, primigeniua, i. 84 ;characters of, i. 87. in captivity, ii. 136. ~HILOE, half-castes of, ii. 21. CEREAII, i. 329, 330 ; of the Neolithic ;HINA, cats of, with drooping ears, i. period in Switzerland, i. 335 j adapta- 49; horses of, i. 56 ; striped ponies tion of, to soils, ii. 295. of, i. 62; asses of, i. 66; notice of Cereus, ii. 11. rabbits in, by Confucius, i. 107 j breeds CHINCHILLA. INDEX. COLOUB. 441 --- of pigeons reared in, i. 216 ; breeds CLEMENTE,on wild vines in Spain, i.

of fowls of, in fifteenth century,-. i. 352. 243, 259. CLERMOHT-TONNERRE,on the St. Va- CHINCHILLA,fertility of, in captivity, l6ry apple, i. 432. ii. 135. CLIMATE,effect of, upon breeds of dogs, CHINESE,selection practised by the, ii. i. 39 ; on horses, i. 55, 56 ; on cattle, 189 ; preference of the, for hornless i. 95, 96; on the fleece of sheep, i. rams, ii. 194 ; recognition of the value 102, 103 ; on seeds of wheat, i. 333 ; of native breeds by the, ii. 304. on cultivated cabbages, i. 344; adap- CHINESE,or Himalayan rabhit, i. 112. tation of maize to, i. 341. CHIVOS,” a breed of cattle iu Paraguay, CLIMATE and pasture, adaptation of i. 92. breeds of sheep to, i. 100,101. CHOUX-RAVES,i. 342. CLIMATE and soil, effects of, upon CHRIST,H., on the plants of the Swiss strawberries, i. 375. Lake-dwellings, i. 326, 336 ; interme- CLINE, Mr., on the skull in horned and diate forms between Pinus syltiestris hornless rams, ii. 327. and montana, i. 387. CLOS, on sterility in Ranunculusficaria, CHRYSANTHEMUM,i. 404. ii. 155. Clirysotis festiva, ii. 269. CLOTZSCH,hybrids of various trees, ii. CINERARIA,effects of selection on the, 111. ii. 184. CLOVER, pelorism in, ii. 335. CIRCASSIA,horses of, ii. 80. COATE,Mr., on interbreeding pigs, ii. 102. CIRCUMCISION,i. 467. COCCUS of apple-trees, ii. 217. CIRRIPEDES,nietagenesis in, ii. 362. COCHINfowls, i. 237, 263, 264, 273, Cistus, intercrossing and hybrids of, i. 274 ; occipital foramen of, figured, i. 356, 459, ii. 122. 274; section of skull of, figured, i. CITRONS,i. 355, 356. 277 ; cervical vertebra of, figured, i. LL Citrus aurantium fructu variabili,” i. 281. 357. COCHINEAL,persistence of, ii. 222 ; pre- Citrus decumclna, i. 355. ference of, for a particular cactus, ii. Cktrus lemonurn, i. 356. 265. Citrus medica, i. 355, 356. Cochlearia armoracia, ii. 154. CLAPHAM, A., bud-variation in the COCK, game, natural selection in, ii. hawthorn, i. 402. 210; spur of, grafted on the cemb, ‘(CLAQUANT ” (pigeons), i. 145. ii. 286 ; spur of, inserted into the ear CLAQUERS” (pigeons), i. 164. of an ox, ii. 365 ; effect of castration CLARK, G., on the wild dogs of Juan de upon the, ii. 26. Nova, i. 28 ; on striped Burmese and COCK’S-COMB,varieties of the, i. 389. Javanese ponies, i. 61; breeds of COCOONS of silkworms, variztions in, i. goats imported into the Mauritius, i. 319. 105; variations in the mammze of CODFISH, bulldog, i. 93; number of goats, i. 106; bilobed scrotum of eggs in the, ii. 373. Muscat goat, ibid. Cdogenys paca, ii. 135. CLARK,H. J., on fission and gemmation, COLIN, prepotency of the ass over the ii. 351. horse, 11. 43; on cross-breeding, ii. CLARKE,R. T., intercrossing of straw- 75 ; on change of diet, ii. 293. berries, i. 374. COLLINEON, PETER,peach-tree produc- CLARKE,T., hybridisation of stochs, i. ing a nectarine, i. 361. 429, ii. 71. COLOFZATION in pigeons, an evidence of CLARKSON,Mr., prize-cultivation of the unity of descent, i. 204-206. gooseberry, i. 378. COMUR, correlation of, in dogs, i. 28, CLASSIFICATION,explained by the theory 29; persistence of, in horses, i. 53; of natural selection, i. 11. inheritance and diversity of, in CLEFT palate, inheritance of, i. 466. horses, i. 57; variations of, in the 142 COLQUR INDEX, CORALS.

ass, i. 66; of wild or feral cattle, i ii. 187,424 ; on the keeping of ducks, 88; transmission of, in rabbits, i, i. 291 j on the selection of seed-corn, 11 1 ;. peculiarities of, in Himalayan i. 336; on the benefits of change of rabbits, i. 114; influence of, ii. 212- soil to plants, ii. 128; on the value 216; correlation of, in head and of native breeds, ii. 304. limbs, ii. 316; correlated with con- COLZA,i. 344. stitutional peculiarities, ii. 329-332. COMB, in fowls, variations of, i. 266 ; COLOUR and odour, correlation of, ii. sometimes rudimentary, ii. 306. 317. COMPENSATION,law of, i. 288. COLOUR-BLINDNESS,hereditary, i. 454 ; COMPENSATIONof growth, ii. 335-337. more common in men than in women, COMPLEXION,connection of, with con- ii. 48, 49 ; associated with inability stitution, ii. 329. to distinguish musical sounds, ii. COMPOSITB,double flowers of, i. 338, 322, ii. 151, 307. COLOURS, sometimes not blended by CONCEPTION,earlier in Alderney and crossing, ii. 70. Zetland cows than in other breeds, i. Columba a@&, Blyth, a variety of C. 91. livia, i. 192. CONDITIONSof life, changed, effect of, Columba amalite, Brehm, a variety of ii. 413-414; on horses, i. 54; upon C. livia, i. 192. variation in pigeons, i. 223; upon Columba guinea, i. 192. wheat, i. 333; upon trees, i. 384; in Columba gymnocyclus, Gray, a form of producing bud-variation, i. 441 ; ad- C. livia, i. 193. vantages of, ii. 127-130, 160, 161 ; Columba gymnophthalmos, hybrids of, sterility caused by, ii, 130-149 ; with C. mas, i. 202; with C. macu- conducive to variability, ii. 243-249, loya, i. 203. 388 ; accumulative action of, ii. 249- Columba intmdia,Strickland, a variety 232 ; direct action of, ii. 260-282. of C. livia, i. 193. CONDOR,breeding in captivity, ii. 137. Columba Zeucocephala, ii. I :<9. COSFINEMENT, effect of, upon the cock, Co'umba leuconota, i. 191, 205. ii. 97. Colitmba littoralis, i. 191. CONFUCIUS, on the breeding of rabbits Columba Zivia, ii. 2, 14; the parent of in China, i. 107. domestic breeds of pigeons, i. 192 ; CONOLLY, Mr., on Angora goats, ii. measurements of, i. 140 ; figured, i. 318. 141; skull figured, i. 172; lower CONSTITUTIOXALdiffereaces in sheep, i jaw figured, i. 173; scapula figured, 100; in varieties of apples, i. 370, i. 176. 371; in pelargoniums, i. 388; in Columba luctuosa, i. 191. dahlias, i. 393. Columba migratoriu and leucocephala, di- CONSTITUTIONAL peculiarities in straw- minished fertility of, in captivity, ii. berries, i. 375; in roses, i. 391. 139. CONSUMPTION, hereditary, i. 451 ; pe- Columba ccnas, i. 192; crossed with riod of appearance of, ii. 54 ; corre- common pigeon and C. gymnophthal- lated with complexion, ii. 329; mos, i. 203. ?ONTABESCENCE, ii. 149,150. Columba palumbus, i. 202, ii. 342. Convolvulus batatas, ii. 153, 299. Columba rupedris, i. 191, 193, 205. Convolvulus tricolor, bud-variation in, i. Columba schimperi, i. 193. 440. Columba torquatrix, ii. 342. ~OOPER,Mr., improvement of vegetables Coliimda turrico?a, i. 193. by selection, ii. 188. COLUMUIA,cattle of, i. 92. ZOOPER, WHITE, hereditary peculiarities COLUMBINE, double, i. 388, ii. 323. of vision, i. 453; association of affec- COLUYBCS,on West Indian dogs, i. 23. tions of the eyes with those of other COLUMELLA,on Italian shepherd dogs, systems, ii. 321. i. 23 j on domestic fowls, i. 243, 259, :ORAZS, bud-variation in, i. 398 ; non- CORBI~. INDEX. CROBSINQ. 443

dimdon of cell-gemmules in, ii. CRACIDB, sterility of the, in captivity, 374. ii. 139. CORBI~.See Boitard. CRANES, fertility of, in captivity, ii. CORDEMOZ,Dr., seedless plants, ii. 153. 140. CORNEA,opacity of, inherited, i. 453. Cratcegus oxyacantha, i. 387, 402, ii. Corrms muscula, yellow-fruited, i. 462. 217, 246, 461. CORRELATION,ii. 311 ; of neighbouring cratcegus monogyna, i. 387. parts, ii. 312; of change in the Cratceyus sibirica, i. 387. whole body, and in some of its parts, CRAWFURD, J., Malasian cats, i. 49 ; ii. 313; of homologous parts, ii. 314- horses of the Malay Archipelago, i. 325 ; inexplicable, ii. 325-357 ; com- 51 ; horses of Japm, i. 56 ; occurrence mingling of, with the effects of other of stripes in young wild pigs of agencies, ii. 327-329. Malacca, i. 80 ; on a Burmese hairy CORRELATIOWof skull and limbs in family with deficient teeth, ii. 53, swine, i. 75; of tusks and bristles in 320; Japanese origin of the bantam, swine, i. 79; of multiplicity of horns i. 241 ; game fowls of the Philippine and coarseness of wool in sheep, i. Islands, ii. 243 ; hybrids of Gallus 98; of beak and feet in pigeons, i. varius and domestic fowl, i. 246 ; 182,183 ; between nestling down and domestication of Gallus bankiva, i. colour of plumage in pigeons, i. 204 ; 248 ;feral fowls in the Pellew Islands, of changes in silkworms, i. 321; in i. 249; history of the fowl, i. 258; p!ants, ii. 204 ; in maize, i. 341 ; in history of the domestic duck, i. 291 ; pigeons, i. 177-180, 228 ; in fowls, i. domestication of the goose, i. 303; 288-289. cultivated plants of New Zealand, i. CORRESPOS-DIKGperiods, inheritance at, 329; breeding of tame elephants in ii. 51-57. Ava, ii. 133; sterility of Goum CORRIENTES,dwarf cattle of, i. 92. coronatu in confinement, ii. 139; CORRINGHAM,Mr., influence of selection geese of the Philippine Islands, ii. on pigs, ii. 182. 145. CORSICA,ponies of, i. 54. ZREEPERS, a breed of fowls, i. 241. ‘‘ CORTBECK” (pigeon) of Aldrovandi, i. CRESTED fowl, i. 239 ; figured, i. 2’40. 219. I‘ CRBVE-CWR,” a French sub-breed of Corcus corone, and C. cornix, hybrids fowls, i. 241. of, ii. 72. CRISP, Dr., on the brains of the hare Corydalis, flower of, ii. 336. and rabbit, i. 132. Corydalis cam, ii. 113, 114. CROCKER, C. W., singular form of Be- Corydilis solida, sterile when peloric, ii. gonia frigidu, i. 389, ii. 150 ; sterility 150. in Ranunculus $curia, ii. 154. Corydalis tuberosa, peloric by reversion, CROCUS, ii. 147. ii. 33. CROSS-BREEDING, permanent effect of, Corylus avellana, i. 379. on the female, i. 436. COSTA, A., on shells transferred from CROSSING, ii. 62-125,157-175; a cause England to the Mediterranean, ii. of uniformity, ii. 62-67, 157 ; occurs 270. in dl organised beings, ii, 67-69; COUES,Dr. E., on a monstrous chicken, some characters not blended by, ii. ii. 385. 67-72, 158; modifications and new COWPER,Mr. WHITE,defective develop- races produced by, ii. 73-77 ; causes ment of the dental system, ii. 321. which check, ii. 78-87 ; domestica- ‘‘ COUVE TRONCHUDA,”i. 342. tion and cultivation favourable to, Cow, inheritance of loss of one horn in ii. 88-91, 172; beneficial effects of the, i. 456; amount of milk fur- ii. 92-112, 158-160; necessary in nished by the, ii. 290; development some plants, ii. 112-122, 159, 160, of six mamms in, ii. 309. 418 ; summary of subject of, ii. 132- COWSLIP,ii. 464. 126; of dogs with wolves in North 444 CBUSTACEA. INDEX. DANIELL.

America, i. 21, 22 ; with Canis can- ing of animals in the Jardin des criworus in Guiana, i. 23 ; of dog with Plantes, ii. 132; sterjljly of pre- wolf, described by Pliny and others, daceous birds in captivity, ii. 137 ; i. 24; characters furnished by, facility of hybridisation in confine- brought out by reversion in the ment, ii. 143. progeny, ii. 7-9; a direct cause of CYANOSIS, affection of fingers in, ii. reversion, ii. 13-21, 23 ; a cause of 326. variability, ii. 252-255. CYCLAMEN,bud-variation in, i. 407. CRUSTACEA,macrourous, differences in Cynura cardunculus, ii. 7. the development of the, ii. 363. Cynips fecundatrix, ii. 273. CRUSTACEANwith an antenna-like de- Cynocephalus hamadryas, ii. 136. velopment of the eye-peduncle, ii. Cyprinus auratus, i. 312-313. 385. Cyrtnntlius, ii. 121. CRYFTOQAMICplants, bud-variation in, Cyrtopodium, ii. 115. i 408. Cytisus adami, its bud-variation, i. CUBA, wild dogs of, i. 28. 413417, ii. 11; seedlings from, i. (‘CVCKOO,” sub-breeds of fowls, i. 256, 414; different views of its origin, CUCUMBER, variation in number of i. 415417 ; experiments in crossing carpels of, i. 382 ; supposed crossing C. prpureus and laburnum to pro- of varieties of the, i. 430. duce, i. 415; its production by M. Cucumis momordica, i. 384. Adam, i. 416 ; discussion of origin of, Cucumis sativa, i. 382. ibid. Cucurbita, dwarf, correlation of leaves Cytisus alpino-laburnum, ovules and in, ii. 324. pollen of, i. 415 ; origin of, &id. Cucurbita maxima, i. 380, 382. Qtisus alpinus, i. 415. Cucurbita moschata, i. 380, 382. Cytisus laburnum, i. 413, 415,416. Cucurbita pep, i. 380, ii. 86 ; varieties Cytisus purpurco-elongatus, ovules and of, i. 381 ; relation in size and num- pollen of, i. 415; production of, i. ber of fruit of, ii. 336. 416. CUCURBITACEE,i. 380-384 ; supposed Cytisus prpureus, i. 414-417. crossing of, i. 430; Naudin’s obser- vations on hybrids of, ii. 156; accli- DAHLBOHM,effects of food on hymenop- matisation of, ii. 304. tera, ii. 270. “ CULBUTANTS” (pigeons), i. 156. DAHLIA, i. 393-394, ii. 129; bud- CULTIVATION of plants, origin of, among variation by tubers in the, i. 411; savages, i.326,327 ;fertility increased improvement of, by selection, ii. by, ii. 89-91. 201 ; steps in cultivation of, ii. 249 ; CUNIER,on hereditary night-blindness, effect of conditions of life on, ii. 263 ; i. 454. correlation of form and colour in, ii. CUPPLES,Mr., pairing of deer-hounds, 325. ii. 104. DAISY, hen-and-chicken, i. 389 ; Swan CURRANTS,of Tierra del Fuego, i. 326 ; River, ii. 249. bud-variation in, i. 400. DALBRET,varieties of wheat, i. 332. CURTIS,Nr., bud-variation in the rose, DALIBERT,changes in the odours of i. 406. plants, ii. 264. &VIER, on the gestation of the wolf, i. DALLY, Dr., on consanguineous mar- 30; the odour of the jackal, an ob- riages, ii. 102. stacIe to domestication, i. 31 ; direr- DALTONISM,hereditary, i. 454. ences of the skull in dogs, i. 35; DAMARAS, cattle of, i. 91, ii. 192, external characters of dogs, i. 36 ; 193. elongation of the intestines in do- DAMSON,i. 368. mestic pigs, i. 77, ii. 293; fertility DANDOLO,Count, on silkworms, i. 318. of the hook-billed duck, i. 291 ; hy- DANIELL,fertility of English dogs in brid of ass and zebra, ii. 16 j breed- Sierra Leone, ii. 144. DAKISH. 1NDEY. DELPHINIUM. 445

--- ~~ DANISH Middens, remains of dogs in, i. of maize, i. 338, ii. 321 ; colours of 18. seeds of maize, i. 339 ; varieties and DAPPLIXGin horses, asses, and hybrids, origin of the cabbage, i. 343, 343; i. 58. origin of the garden-pea, i. 345 ; on DARESTE,C., on the skull of the Polish the vine, i. 352, ii. 298; cultivated fowl, i. 275 ; causes of variahility, species of the orange group, i. 355 ; ii. 257; on the production of mon- probable Chinese origin of the peach, strous chickens, ii. 279 ; co-existence i. 357; on the peach and nectarine, of anoinalies, ii. 325 ; production of i. 361, 363; varieties of the peach, i. double monsters, ii. 334. 363; origin of the apricot, i. 365; IJARVILL,Mr., heredity of good qualities origin and varieties of the plum, i. in horses, i. 456. 367 ; origin of the cherry, i. 368; DARWIN, C., on Lepus mugellanicus. i. varieties of the gooseberry, i. 376 ; 117; on the wild potato, i. 349; selection practised with forest-trees, dimorphism in the polyanthus and i. 384; wild fastigate oak, i. 385; primrose, i. 464. dark-leaved varieties of trees, ibid. ; DARWIN, Dr., improvement of vegeta- conversion of stamens into pistils in bles by selection, ii. 189. the poppy, i. 389 ; variegated foliage, DARWIN, Sir F., wildness of crossed i. 390 ; heredity of white hyacinths, pigs, ii. 19. i. 395, 463 ; changes in oaks depen- DARWIN,G., consanguineous marriages, dent on age, i. 413; inheritance of ii. 104. anomalous characters, i. 462 ; varia- D’Asso, monogynous condition of the tion of plants in their native countries, hawthorn in Spain, i. 387. ii. 244; deciduous boshes becoming Dasyprocta a,quti, ii. 135. evergreen in hot climates, ii. 295 ; DATE-PALM.varieties of the, ii. 241. antiquity of races of plants, ii. 425. Datura, ii. 11 ; variability in, ii. 254. DE CANDOLLE,P., non-variability of Dirtura lccvis and stramonium, reversion monotypic genera, ii. 253 ; relative in hybrids of, i. 425. development of root and seed in Datura stramonium, ii. 43. Raphunus sativus, ii. 335. DAUBENTON,variations in the number DECAISNE,on the cultivation of the of mamms in dogs, i. 36 ; proportions wild carrot, i. 344; varieties of the of intestines in wild and domestic pear, i. 372 ; intercrossing of straw- cats, i. 50, ii. 292. berries, i. 373 ; fruit of the apple, i. DAUDIN,on white rabbits, ii. 21.5. 432 ; sterility of Lysimnchia nummu- DAVY,Dr., on sheep in the West Indies, Zaria, ii. 154; tender variety of the i. 102. peach, ii. 299. DAWKINS,W. BOYD, history of the dog, DEER, assumption of horns by female, i. 1.5; origin of cattle, i. 85; early ii. 26; imperfect development of domestication of Bos lonjifrons in horns in a, on a voynge, ii. 141. Britain, hid. DEER, fallow, ii. 81. DEAF-MUTES,non-heredity in, i. 465. DEERHOUND,Scotch, difference in size DEAFNESS,inheritance of, ii. 55. of the sexes of, ii. 49 ; deterioration DEAN,potato-grafting, i. 421. of, ii. 100. DEBY, wild hybrids of common and DEGENERATIONof high-bred races, musk ducks, ii. 20. under neglect, ii. 285. DE CANDOLLE,ALPH., number and DE JONGHE,J., on strawberries, i. 374, originof cultivated plants, i. 323.324, ii. 229; soft-barked pears, ii. 217 ; 395 ; regions which have furnished on accumulative variation, ii. 249 ; no useful plants, i. 327 ; wild wheat, resistance of blossoms t,o frost, ii. 297. i. 323,330 ; wild rye and oats, i. 329 ; DELAMER,E. S., on rabbits, i. 111, antiquity of varieties of wheat, i. 333 ; 116. apparent inefficacy of selection in Delphinium ajacis, i. 4G4. wheat, i. 315 ; origin and cultivation Delphinium consolida, i. 463, 464. 446 DELPISO. INDEX. DIXON.

DELPINOon Pangenesis, ii. 350, 372. of, with embryonic conditions, ii. 15 ; Dadrocyqna via'trata, ii. 140. fusion of, ii. 334. DENNY,H., lice of Aperea, ii. 135. DIMORPHICplants, ii. 112 ; conditions DENTITION,variations of, in the horse, of reproduction in, ii. 165-lb9. i. 52. DIMORPHISM,reciprocal, ii. 68. DEODAR,i. 387. DINGO,i. 26 ; variation of, in cdonr, i. DEBMAREST,distribution of white on 28; half-bred, attempting to burrow, dogs, i. 30; cat from the Cape of ibid.; attraction of foxes by a fema!e, Good Hope, i. 49 ; cats of Madagascar, i. 32 ; variations of, in confinement, ibid.; occiirrence of striped young in ii. 251. Turkish pigs, i. 80; French breeds DI(ECIOUSNESof straderries, i. 375. of cattle, i. 84 ;horns of goats, i. 106 ; DISEASES,inheritance of, i. 451, 452 ; on hornless goats, ii. 306. inherited at corresponding periods of DESPORTES, number of varieties of life, ii. 53-57 ; peculiar to localities roses, i. 391. and climates, ii. 265 ; obscure corre- DEVAY,Dr., singular case of albinism, lations in, ii. 325, 326 ; affecting cer- i. 460; on the marriage of cousins, tain parts of the body, ji. 374; oc- ii. 102 ; on the effects of close inter- curring in alternate generations, ii. breeding, ii. 251. 396. DEVELOPMENTand metnmorphosis, ii. DISTEYPER,fatal to white terriers, ii. 383, 384. 213. DEVELOPMENT,arrests of, ii. 306-310. DISUSE and use of parts, effects of, ii. DEVELOPMENT,embryonic, ii. 361- 285-293, 345, 346, 414, 415; in 364. the skeleton of rabbits, i. 129-134 ; DHERVEY-SAINT-DENYS,L.,on the Ya- in pigeons, i. 180-187; in fowls, i. mi, or imperial race of theChinese, 284-288 ; in ducks, i. 299-301 ; in ii. 189. the silk-moth, i. 317-321. DHOLE,fertility of the, in captivity, ii. DIVERGENCE,influence of, in producing 134. breeds of pigeons, i. 230. DIABETES,occurrence of, in three bro- DISON, E. S., on the musk duck, i. thers, i. 460. 191; on feral ducks, i. 200; on Bianthus, contabescent plants of, ii. feral pigeons in Norfolk Island, 149,150; hybrid varieties of, ii. 255. ibid.; crossing of pigeons, i. 201 ; Dianthus arineria and deltoidcs, hybrids origin of domestic fowls, i. 242; of, ii. 76. crossing of Gallus sonneratii and Dt'anthus barbatus, i. 406. common fowl, i. 245 ; occurrence of Bianthus caryophylltcs, i. 406. white in the young chicks of black Dianthus japonkw, contabescence of fowls, i. 256 ; Paduan fowl of Aldro- female organs in, ii. 150. vandi, i. 259; peculiarities of the Diapheromeru femorala, ii. 359. eggs of fowls, i. 260 ; chickens, i. DICHWAMOUSplants, ii. 68. 261, 262; late development of the DICKSON,Mr., on " running " in carna- tail in Cochin cocks, i. 263; comb of natiow, i. 407; on the colours of lark-crested fowls, i. 268 ; develop- tulips, i. 412. ment of webs in Polish fowls, i. 272 : Dicotyles torqwtus and labiatus, ii. 133. on the voice of fowls, ihid.; origin DIEFFENBACH,dog of New Zealand, i. of the duck, i. 291 ; ducks kept by 26; feral cats in New Zealand, i. the Xoinans, i. 292 ; domestication of 49 ; polydactylism in Polynesia, i. the goose, i. 302 ; gander frequently 458. white, i. 303; breeds of turkeys, i, Dielytra, ii. 33. 309 ; incubatory instinct ofmongrels ~ET,change of, ii. 293, 294. of non-sitting races of fowls, ii. 18; Digilalis, properties of, affected by cul- aversion of the dove-cot pigeon to ture, ii. 264. pair with fancy birds, ii. 82 ; fertility OJGITS,supernumerary, i. 457 ;aaalogy of the goose, ii. 90 ; general sterility DOBELL. INDEX. DROMEDARY. 447

___- ~~ of the guans in captivity, ii. 139; fifth toe in, ii. 309; hairless, de- fertility of geese in captivity, ii. ficiency of teeth in, ii. 319; short- 140 ; white pea-fowl, ii. 326. faced, teeth of, ii. 337; probable DOBELL, H., inheritance of anomalies of analogous variation in, ii. 341 ; ex- the extremities, i. 458 ; non-rerersion tinction of breeds of, ii. 421. to a malformation, ii. 10. DOMBRAIN,14. H., on the auricula, ii. DOURIZHOFFER, abhorrence of incest by 339. the Abipones, ii. 103. DOMESTICATION,essential points in, ii. DOGS,origin of, i. 15 ; ancient breeds of, 400, 401 ; favourable to crossing, ii. i. 17, ii. 424; of Neolithic, Bronze 88, 89 ; fertility increased by, ii. 89- and Iron periods in Europe, i. 18, 19, 91, 158. ii. 423 ; resemblance of, to various DOMESTICATEDanimals, origin of, ii. species of Canidae, i. 21; of North 144, 145 ; occasional sterility of, America compared with wolves, i. under changed conditions, ii. 145, 21, 22; of the West Indies, South 146. America, and Mexico, i. 23, 32 ; of DONDERS, Dr., hereditary hyperme- Guiana, i. 23 ; naked dogs of Para- tropia, i. 453. guay and Peru, 24, 31; dumb, on DORKINGfowl, i. 237,274 ; furculum of, Juan Fernandez, i. 27; of Juan de figured, i. 282. Nova, i. 28; of La Plata, ibid.; of DORMOUSE, ii. 135. Cuba, ibid.; of St. Domingo, nbid.; DOUBLEflowers, ii. 151,152, 155, 156 ; correlation of colour in, i. 28, 29; produced by selection, ii. 184. gestation of, i. 30, 31; hairless DOUDLEDAY,H., cultivation of the fil- Turkish, i. 31, ii. 212 ; inter-crossing bert pine strawberry, i. 376. of different breeds of, i. 31 ; charac- DOUGLAS, J., crossing of white and ters of different breeds of, discussed, black game-fowls, ii. 70. i. 34-38 ; degeneration of European, DOWNING,Mr.. wild varieties of thd in warm climates, i. 37, 39 ; ii. 267, hickory, i. 327 ; .peaches and ncc- 295 ; liability to certain diseases in tarines from seed, 1.360, 361 ; orikn different breeds of, i. 37 and note; of the Boston nectarine, 1. 3C1 ; causes of differences of breeds dis- American varieties of the peach, i. cussed, i. 39-45; catching fish and 364; North American apricot, i. crabs in New Guinea and Tierra del 3d6 ; Varieties of the plum, i. SG8 ; Fuego, i. 41 ; webbing of the feet in, origin and varieties of the cherry. i. ibid. ; influence of selection in pro- 368, 369 ; ‘‘ twin-cluster pippiu;,” i. ducing different breeds of, i. 42, 45 ; 370; varieties of the apple, i. 872; retention of original habits by, i, on strawberries, i. 373, 375; fruit 191 ; inheritance of polydactylism of the wild gooseberry, i. 378 ; in, i. 549; feral, ii. 6; reversion in effects of grafting upon the seed, i. fourth generation of, ii. 8; of the 472; diseases of plum and peach Pacific Islands, ii. 64, 205, 393; tree, ii, 213; injury done to ctone mongrel, ii. 70 ; comparative facility fruit in America by the “ weevil,” ii. of crossing different breeds of, ii. 217; grafts of the plum and peach, 80; fertility of, ii. 88, 134; inter- ii. 247 ; wild varieties of pears, ii. breeding of, ii. 98-100 ; selection of, 248 ; varieties of fruit-trees suitable among the Greeks, ii. 186, 194; to different climates, ii. 296. among savages, ii. 191, 192; un- DOWNING, Mr. J., sterility of diort- conscious selection of, ii. 196, 197 ; horns, ii. 97. valued by the Fuegians, ii. 199,200; Draba sylvestris, ii. 147. climatal changes in hair of, ii. 268 ; DRAGON (pigeon), i. 146, 149. production of drooping ears in, ii. ‘ DRAIJER” (pigeon), i. 164. 29 1 ; rejection of bones of game by, DRINKING, effects of, in differen’. cli. ii. 293 ; inheritance of rudiments of mates, ii. 279. limbs in, ii. 306; development of DROMEDARY, selection of, ii. 190 448 DRCCE. INDEX. EHBEX'BERG. -- ~- DRUCE,Mr., inter-breeding, ii. 99 ;valu DDVAL-JOUVE,on Leersia oryroides, ii. of cross breed of pigs, ii. 100. 69. DU CHAILLU,frcit-trees in West Africe DUVERNOY,self-impotence in Lilium i. 327. candidum, ii. 118. DUCHESNE,on Fragarda tesca, i. 372 DZIERZON,variability in the characters 375. and habits of bees, i. 314. DUFOUR,LBoN, on Cecidomyia and Piac campus, i. 5. EARLE,Dr., on colour-blindness, ii. 48, DUCK, musk? retention of perchin: 322. habit by the, i. 191 ; feral hybrid oi EARS, of fancy rabbits, i. 110; de- i. 199. ficiency of, in breeds of rabbits, i. DUCK, penguin, hybrid of, with Egyp 11 2 ; rudimentary, in Chinese sheep, tian goose, ii. 44. ii. 306 ; drooping, ii. 291 ; fusion of, DUCK, wild, difficulty of rearing, ij ii. 334. 219; effects of doElestication on, ii EATON, J. M., on fancy pigeons, i. 155, 267. 159 ; variability of characters in DUCKS,breeds of, i. 290, 291 ; origin of breeds of pigeons, i. 169 ; reversion i. 291 ; history of, did. ; wild, easil! of crossed pigeons to coloration of tamed, i. 292, 293 ; fertility of brced Culumba livia, i. 268; on pigeon- of, when crossed, i. 294; with thl fancying, i. 216, 225, 226; on plumage of Anas 60sch0s, ibid. tumbler-pigeons, i. 220, ii. 229 ; Malayan penguin, identical in plum carrier-pigeon, i. 219; effects of age with English, i6id. ; characten inter-breeding on pigeons, ii. 106 ; of the breeds of, i. 295-290 ; eggs of properties of pigeons, ii. 182 ; death i. 295; effects of me and disuse in of short-faced tumblers in the egg, i. 299-302, ii. 285; feral, in Nor. ii. 211 ; Archangel-pigeon, ii. 226. folk, i. 199 ; Ayleshury, inheritancc ICIIINODERNATA,metagenesis in, ii. 362. of early hatching by, i. 471 ; rever. Fctopistcs, specific difference in number sion in, produced by crossing, ii. 14 of tail-feathers in, i. 167. nildness of half-bred wild, ii. 19: E'ctopistcs migratorius, sterile hybrids hybrids of, with the musk duck, ii. of, with Il'urtur vu'pris, i. 203. 19, 20 ; assumption of male plumagt :DI.:XTATA, correlation of dermal system by, ii. 26 ; crossing of Labrador and and teeth in the, ii. 321. penguin, ii. 75 ; increased fertility cDGE\VORTA, Mr., use of grass-seeds as of, by domestication, ii. 90 ; general food in the Punjab, i. 326. fertility of, in confinemeut, ii. 140 ; ;DYONSrON, Dr., on the stomach in increase of size of, by care in breed- Lams argentatus and the raven, ii. ing, ii. 183; change produced by 292. domestication in, ii. 250. :DWARDS and Colin, on English wheat DUM~RIL,AuG., breeding of SiredoiL in in France, ii. 297. the branchiferous stage, ii. 379. ~DWARDS,U'. F., absorption of the mi- DUN-COLOUREDhorses, origin of, i. 61. nority in crossed races, ii. 64. DTTREAUDE LA MALLE, feral pigs in ~DWARDS,W. W., occurrence of stripes Louisiana, ii. 7; feral fowls in in a nearly thoroughbred horse, i. Africa, ibid. ; bud-variation in the 60 ; in foals of race-horses, i. 62. pear, i. 401; production of mules .GGS, of fowls, characters of, i. 260; among the Romans, ii. 88. variations of, in ducks, i. 495 ; of the Dusicyon sylvestris, i. 23. silk-moth, i. 317. DUTCHrabbit, i. 111. Gym,ancient dogs of, i. 17, 18 ;ancient DUTCHroller pigson, i. 158. domestication of the pigeon in, i. 214 ; UUTROCHET,pelorism in the laburnum, absence of the fowl in ancient, i. 258. ii. 338. QYPTIAN goose, hybrids of, with pen- DUVAL, growth of pears in woods in guin duck, i. 296 France, ii. 248. HRENBEW, Prof., multiple origin of ELEMENTS. INDEX. FALCOICEB. 449 -- the dog, i. 16 ; dogs of Lower Egypt, Eschscholtzia californica, self-sterile in i. 25 ; mummies of' Felis rnaniculuta, England, ii. 118. i. 45. ESQUILANT, Mi,., on the naked young of ELEMENTSof the body, functional inde- dun-coloured pigeons, i. 180. pendence of the, ii. 364-366. ESQUIMAUXdogs, their resemblance to ELEPHANT,its sterility in captivity, ii. wolves, i. 22 ; selection of, ii. 191. 132. E~QUIROL,on hereditary insanity, i. 55. ELK, Irish, correlations in the, ii. 327, KUDES-DESLONGCfIAMPS, on appendages 328. under the jaw of pigs, i. 78. ELLIOT,Sir WALTER,on cats in India, i. Etmnymus japonicus, i. 407. 46; on striped horses, i. 61 ; Indian Euphorbia maculata, ii. 275. domestic and wild swine, i. 70; EUROPEAN cultivated plants, still wild pigeons from Cairo and Constanti- in Europe, i. 32-1. nople, i. 138 ; fantail pigeons, i. 153 ; EVANS, Mr., on the Lotan tumbler Lotan tumbler pigeons, i. 158; a pigeon, i. 1.58. pigeon uttering the sound Yaliu, i. EVELYN,pansies grown in his garden, 26.3 ; Gallus bankiva in Pegu, i. 248. i. 391. ELLIS, Mr., varieties of cultivated plants EVEREST,R., on the Newfoundland dog in Tahiti, ii. 243. in India, i. 37, ii. 295 ; degeneration Em, nearly evergreen Cornish variety of setters in India, i. 39 ; Indian wild of the, i. 386, ii. 301 ; foliage-varieties boars, i. 69. of the, i. 385. EWES, hornless, ii. 343. ELM, weeping, i. 385; not reproduced EXTINCTIONof domestic races, i. 232. by seed, i. 462. EYES, hereditary peculiarities of the, i. Emberiza passerina, ii. 141. 452-45-1 ; loss of, causing microph- EMBRYOS,similarity of, i. 12; fusion of, thalmia in children, i. 469 ; modifica- ii. 333. tion of the structure of, by natural ENGEL, on Laurus sassafras, ii. 264. selection, ii. 207, 208. ENGLAND,domestication of Bos longi- EYEBROWS,hereditary elongation of from in, i. 85; selection of horses in, hairs in, i. 452. in mediavd times, ii. 187; laws EYELIDS,inherited peculiarities of the, against the early slaughter of rams i. 452. in, ii. 188. EYTON,Mr., on gestation in the dog, i. EPHEMERIDZ,development of the, ii. 31 : variabilitv in number of vertebrae 361. in the pig, i. f7 ; individual sterility, Epidedrum cinnabarinurn, i. 431 ; and ii. 146. E. zebra, ii. 115. EPILEPSY,hereditary, i. 451, ii. 55. Fnba vulgaris, i. 349. Equus burchellii, i. 67. Fabre, observations on Bgilops triti- Equus quuyga, i. 67. coides, i. 330. E'quus indicus, ii. 17, 22. Fagus sylvatica, i. 462. E'quus teniopus, i. 65, 66, ii. 16. FAIRWEATHER,Mr., production of ERDT, disease of' the white partsof cattle, double flowers from old seed, ii. 151. ii. 331. FAIVRE,on the Primula siwnsis, i. 394, ERICACEB, frequency of contabescence ii. 324. in the, ii. 149. Falco albidus, resumption of young plu- ERICHTHONIUS,an improver of horses mage by, in captivity, ii. 141. by selection, ii. 186. Falco ossifragus, ii. 215. ERMAN, on the fat-tailed Kirghisian FU~CO su&utio, &plating in csptivity, sheep, i. 102, ii. 269 ; on the dogs of ii. 137. the Ostyaks, ii. 191. Falco tinnunculiLs, breeding in captivity, Erodiunt, ii. 33. ii. 137. Erythrina crista-galli and E. hrbacea, FALCONER,Dr., sterilitr of English hybrids of, ii. 253. bulldogs in India, i. 35 ; resemblance 450 FAMONS. INDEX. FITTEST.

between f!icatherium and Niata cattle, FENN, Mi.., grafting potatoes, i. 421. i. 93; selection of the silkworm in FENNEL, ltalinn variety of, j. 344. India, i. 317 ; fastigate apple-trees in FERAL cats, i. 49 ; cattl?, i. 89 ; rabhits, Calcutta, i. 38.5; reproduction of a i. 116, 119; Guineafow1,i. 310; ani- supernumerary thumb after amputa- mals and plants, reversion in, ii. 5,6, tion, i. 459 ; fertility of the dhole in 22. captivity, ii. 134; fertility of English FERGUSON, Mr., supposed plurality of dogs in India, ii. 144; sterility of the origin of domestic fowls, i. 243; tiger in captivity, ii. 1.33 ; turkeys at chickens of black game-fcwls, i. 257 ; Delhi, ii. 145 ; on Indian cultivated relative size of eggs of fowls, i. 260 ; plants, ii. 148; Thibet mastiff &ad yolk of eggs of game-fowls, i. 262 ; goat, ii. 268. early pugnacity of game-cocks, i. FALCONS, sterility of, in captivity, ii. 263 ; voice of the Malay fowl, i. 272 ; 137. effects of interbreeding on fowls, ii. FALKLANDIslands, horses of the, i. 55, 105 ; selection in Cochin-China fowls, 64 ;feral pigs of the, i. 80 ;feral cattle ii. 180 ; on fashion in poultry, ii. 226. of the, i. 86, 90; feral rabbits of the FERNANDEZ,on Mexican dogs, i. 23. i. 116. FERNS, reproduction of abnornial forms FALIOW deer, ii. 81, 99. of, by spores, i. 408 ; non-diffusion of FAXTAILpigeons, i. 153-155, ii. 218 ; cell-gemmules in, ii. 373. figured, i. 156 ; furculum of, figured, FERRETS, ii. 90,134, 190. i. 176; history of, i. 218; absence of FERTILISATION, artificial, of the St. oil-gland in, ii. 336. Valdry apple, i. 371, 372. FAROEIslands, pigeons of the, i. 192. FERTILITY, various degrees of, in sheep, FASIIION,influence of, in breeding, ii. i. 101 ; unlimited mutual, of breeds 226. of pigeons, i. 201-203 ; comparative, FASTIGATEtrees, ii. 266, 340. of mongrels and hybrids, ii. 78, 79, FAUNAS,geographical differences of, i. 162-165 ; influence of nourishment 10. on, ii. 89 ; diminished by close inter- ‘‘ FAVOURITE” bull, ii. 40, 96. breeding, ii. 96, 159; reduced, of FEATHERS,homologous variation in, ii. Chillingham wild cattle, ii. 97 ; of 317. domesticated varieties when crossed, FEET, of pigeons, individual differences ii. 173. of, i. 168; correlations of external Festucu?.species of, propngated by bulb- characters in, i. 180. lets, 11. 154. FEETand beak, correlation of, in pigeons, FILBERTS, spared by tomtits, ii. 216. i. 180-184. FILIPPI, on the breeding of branchiferous FELIDX, fertility of, in captivity, ii. tritons, ii. 379. 133. FINCHES, general sterility of, in cap- Felis bubastes, i. 45. tivity, ii. 137. Ftlis cafra, i. 46. FINNIKIN (pigeon), i. 164. Felis caliguluta, i. 45. FINOCCHIO, i. 844. Felis cham, i. 45-17. FIR, Scotch, ncclimatisation of, ii. 300. Felis jubata, ii. 133. FISH, Mr., advantage of change of soil Felis lybicu, i. 46. to plants, ii. 129. Felis msxniculata, i. 45. FISHFS, regeneration of portions of fins E’clis munut, i. 47. of, ii. 15 ; variability of, when kept in Felis ornata, i. 47. tanks, ii. 246 ;marine, living in fresh Felis sylcestris, i. 46. water, ii. 294 ; double monsters of, ii. Felis torquata, i. 47. 333. FEMALE,affected by male element, ii. FISSION and gemmation, ii. 351. 361, 382. FITCH, Mr., persistency of a variety of FEMALE flovers, in male panicle of the pea, i. 349. maize, i. 339. ?ITTE~T,survival of the, i. 6. FIFITZINQER. INDEX. FRAQARIA. 451

FIl!ZINGER, origin of sheep, i. 98 ; Afri- 341, 343; “cuckoo” sub-breeds of, can maned sheep, i. 100. i. 236; history of, i. 258-260; struc- FITZPATRICK,Mr., potato-grafting, i. tural characters of, i. 260-262 ; sex- 421. ual peculiarities of, i. 263-270, ii. FIXEDNESSof character, conditions of, 50;external differences of, i. 270-273; discussed, ii. 37-39. dift‘erences of‘ breeds of, from G. b m- FLAX,found in the Swiss lake-dwellings, &a, i. 272; osteological characters i. 335 ; climatal difference in products of, 273-284 ; effects of disuse of parts of, ii. 264. in, i. 284-288, ii. 288 ; feral, i. 199, FLEECE,fineness of, in Austrian merinos, ii. 7 ; polydactylism in, i. 458 ; fer- ii. 181. tility of, increased by domestication, FLEISCIIXANN,on German sheep crossed ii. 90,145 ; sterility of, under certain with merinos, ii. 66. conditions, ii. 144; influence of selec- ‘(FLORENTINE&-TAUBE,” i. 149, 150. tion on, ii. 180, 182, 194; evils of FLOUNDER,ii. 28. close inter-breeding of, ii 104, 105; FLOURENS,crossing of wolf and dog, i. crossing of, ii. 73-75 ; prepotency 33 ; prepotencp of the jackal over the of transmission in, ii. 42 ; rudimen- log, ii. 43; hyhrids of‘ the horse and tary organs in, ii. 306 ; crossing of ass, ii. 43; breeding of monkeys in non-sitting varieties of, ii. 18, 19 ; Europe, ii. 135. homology of wing and leg feathers FLOWER-GARDEN,earliest known, in in, ii. 315; hybrids of, with phea- Europe, ii. 203. sants and Gallus sonneratii, ii. 20; FLOWERS, capricious transmission of black-skinned, ii. 194 ; black, preyed colour-varieties in, i. 463, 464 ; ten- upon by the osprey in Irelnnd, ii. 215 ; dency to uniformity in striped, ii. 45; five-toed, mentioned by Columella, ii. scorching of, dependent on colour, 424; rumpless, tailed chickens prc- ii. 214 ; change in, caused by condi- duced by, ii. 4 ; Dorking, crosses of, tions of life, ii. 265 ; rudimentary, ii. ii. 70; form of comb aud colour of 307 ; relative position of, to the axis, plumage in, ii. 224; game, crossing ii. 337. of white and black, ii. 70; five- FCXTATION,abdominal, ii. 285. spurred, ii. 386 ; Spanish, liable to FOLEY,Mr., wild varieties of pears, ii. suffer from frost, ii. 296 ; Polish, 248. peculiarities of skull of, ii. 326-327. FOLIAGE,inherited peculiarities of, i. POX,sterility of, in captivity, ii. 134. 385; variegzation of, i. 390; bud- FOX, S. BEVAN,races of bees, i. 314. variation in, i. 407-409. FOX, W. DARWIX,gestation of the dog, FOOD,influence of, on the pig, i. 76 ; on i. 31 ; “Negro“ cat, i. 48; rever- cattle, i. 94 ; excess of, a cause of va- sion of sheep in colour, ii. 3 ; period riability, ii. 244. of gestation in the pig, i. 77 ; young FORBES, D., on Chilian sheep, i. 99 ; on of the Himalayan rabbit, i. 114; the horses of Spain, Chili, and the crossing of wild and domestic turkeys, Pampas, i. 54. i. 308; reversion in crossed musk Formica rufa, ii. 238. ducks, ii. 14; spontaneous segrega- FORTUNE,R., sterility of the sweet tion of varieties of geese, ii. 82; potato in China, ii. 153 ; development effects of close inter-breeding upon of avillary bulbs in the yiim, ibid. bloodhounds, ii. 100; deafness of FOWL, common, breeds of, i. 236-242 ; white cats with blue eyes, ii. 322. supposed plurality of origin, i. 242; FOXHOUNDS,i. 42, ii. 99. early history of, i. 243-245 ; causes Fragaria chiloensis, i. 373. of production of breeds of, i. 245; Fragaria collina, i. 373. origin of, from Gallus bankiva, i. 247- Fragaria dioica of Dnchesne, i. 375. 251, 257; feral, notices of, i. 249, Frqariu elatior, i. 373. 250 ; reversion and analogous varia- Fragaria grandijtora, i. 373. tion in, i. 251-258, ii. 9, 12-14, Fragaria vesca, i. 373. 452 FRAQAIIIA. INDEX. GAIIBETT. ---___------Fmgaria viiyiniana, i. 373. peach and nectarine, i. 361 : bizzarris Fraxinus excelsior, i. 384, 408, 462. orange, i. 417 ; crossing of red and Fraxinus lentisccfdia, i. 462. white carnations, i. 426 j crossing of FRIESLAND cattle, probably descended the orange and lemon, i. 430, ii. 360 ; from Bos pminigenius, i. 84. erect of foreign pollen OR maize, i. FRILLBACK pigeon, i. 163 ; Indian, i. 130 ;spontaneous crossing of oranges, 161. ii. 68; monstrosities a cause of steri- FringiZh ciris, ii. 1:37. lity in plants, ii. 1.50; seeding of Fringilla spinus, ii. 137. ordinarily seedless fruits, ii. 152 ; ste- FRIZZLEDfowls, i. 241 ; horses, i, 56. rility of the sugar-cane, ii. 153; ten- FROG, polydactyljsm in the, i. 458. dency of male flowers to become FRUIT, seedless, ii. 152. double, ii. 155 ; effects of selection in FRUIT-TREES, varieties of, occurring cularging fruit, &c., ii. 202 ; varia- wild, i. 327. tion of the orange-tree in North FRY, Mr., on fertile hyhrid cats, i. 46 ; !taly, ii. 243; naturalisation of the on feral fowls in Ascension, i. 249. orange in Italy, ii. 298. FUCHSIAS,origin of, i. 388 ; hud-rai-ia- Gallus anem, a hybrid of G. varius and tion in, i. 407. the domestic fowl, i. 245. Fuchsia coccinea and fulgens, twin seed Gallas bankiva, probable original of do- produced by crossing, i. 426. mestic fowls, i. 245, 247-451, 257; FUEGIANS, their superz'

GARROD,Dr., on hereditary gout, i. 451. GEESE (nnserm), general fertility of, in GHRTNER,on the sterility of hybrids, i. captivity, ii. 140. 201, ii. 79, 169; acquired sterilityof GEMMATIONand fission, ii. 351. varieties of plants when crossed, i. QEMMULFS, or cell-gemmules, ii. 370, 381 ; sterility in transplanted plants, 372-877, 350. and in the lilac in Germany, ii. 148 ; GENERATION,altcrnatgb, ii. 354, 363, mutual sterility of blue and red 385. flowers of the pimpernel, ii. 173; GEPJERATIOX,sexual, ii. 352-357. supposed rules of transmission in GENET, fertility of the, in captivity, ii. crossing plants, ii. 42; on crossing 134. plants, ii. 76, 107, 111, 112; on re- GENIUS, inheritance of, i. 451. peated crossing, ii. 255 ; absorption Gentiana amarella, ii. 1cJ2. of one species by another, when GEOFFROYSAINT-HILAIRE, production crossed, ii. 65 ; crossing of varieties of monstrous chickens, ii. 279 ; ‘‘ Loi of the pea, i. 428 ; crossing maize, ii. de 1’nfinite.de soipour soi,” ii. 333 ; 82 ; crossing of species of Verbnscum, compensation of growth, ii. 335. ii. 71, 83; reversion in hybrids, ii. GEOFFROYSAINT-HILAIRE, ISID., origin 9, 23, 24; of Cereus, i. 425; of Trc- ofthe dog, i. 16 ; barking of a jackal, pceolum mjus and minus, i. 425 ; va- i. 28 ;period of gestation and odoar of riability of hybrids, ii. 253 j varia- the jackal, i. 31; anomalies in the ble hybrids from one variable parent, teeth of dogs, i. 36 ; variations in the ii. 258; graft hybrid produced by proportions of dogs, ibid. ; webbed inoculation in the vine, i. 419; feet of Newfoundland dogs, i. 41; effect produced by grafts on the stock crossing of domestic and wild cats, i. i. 418, ii. 267; tendency of hybrid 4ti ; domestication of the arni, i. 86 ; plants to produce double flowers, ii. supposed introduction of cattle into 155 ; production of perfect fruit by Europe from the East, ibd ; absence sterile hybrids, ii. 156 ; sexual elec- of interdigital pits in sheep, i. 99; tive affinity, ii. 164; self-impotence origin of the goat, i. 105; feral geese, in Lobelia, Verbamun, Liliurn, and i. 200 ; anci nt historv of the fowl, Yassijora, ii. 117, 118; on the action i. 258; skull of the Polibh fowl, i. of pollen, ii. 86 ; iertilisation of 275; preference of the Romans for Malva, i. 434, ii. 356 ; prepotency of the liver of white geese, i. 305; pollen, ii. 171;. prepotency of trans- polydactylism, i. 457 ; assumption mis-ion in species of Nicutiana, ii. 43 ; of‘ male characters by female bird, ii. bud-variation in Pelargonium zonule, 26 ; transmission and blending of i. 402 ; in Gnothera biennis, i. 407 ; characters in hybrids, ii. 72 ; refusal in Achillma millefolium, i. 440 ; effect of animals to breed in captivity, ii. of manure on the fertility of plants, 131; on the Guinea-pig, ii. 135; ii. 147; on contabescence, ii. 149- silkworms producing white cocoons. 150 ; inheritance of plasticity, ii. ii. 183 ; on the carp, ii. 222; crn 227 ; villosity of plants, ii. 267. Helk Zacteu, ii. 270 ;on monstrosities, GASPARINI, s genus of pumpkins, ii. 211 ; injury to the embryo a cause founded on stigmatic characters, i. of monstrosity, ii. 257 ; alteration in 382. the coat of horses in coal-mines, ii. GAUDICHAUD,bud-variation in the pear, 268 ; length of the intestines in wild i. 401 ; apple-tree with two kinds of and tame animals, ii. 292, 293 ; in- fruit on branch, i. 425. heritance of rudimentary limbs in GAY, on Fragaria grandijlora, i. 373 ; the dog, ii. 306; correlation iE on viola lutea and tricolor, i. 392 ; on monstrosities, ii. 312 ; supernu. the nectary of Viola grandifEora, i. merary digits in man, ii. 314; co- 393. existence of anomalies, ii. 325 ; GAYAL, domestication of the, i. 86. presence of hairs and teeth in GAYOT. Eke Moll. ovarian t umours, ii. 365 ; deveiop- 454 GEOORAPIIICAL. INDEX. QODRON. -___ ment of teeth on the palate in the GLANDS,compensatory development of, horse, ii. 375. ii. 290. GEOGRAPHICALdifferences of faunas, i. GLASTONBURYthorn, i. 387. 10. GLENNY, Mi.., on the Ciwraria, ii. 184. GEOLOGICALsuccession of organisms, GLOEDE, F., on sirawberries, i. 375. i. 11. GLOQER, on the wings of ducks, ii. 288. Geranium, ii. 33. " GLOUGLOU" (pigeonj, i. 162. Gera)iium phmm and pyremicum, ii. Glozinice, peloric, i. 389; ii. 150. 246. GYELIN, on red cats, at Tobolsk, i. 49. Geranium pratense, i. 404. GOAT, i. 105, 106, ii. 6 ; polydactylism GERARD, asserted rlimatal change in in the, i. 549; sexual differences in Burgiiudian bees, i. 314. horns of, ii. 49; valued by South GERARDE,on varieties of the hyacinth, Africans, ii. 193; Thibet, ii. 268 ; i. 394. amount of milk and development of GERSTACKER, on hive-bees, i. 315. udders in the, ii. 290 ; hornless, rudi- GERVAIS, Prof., origin of the dog, i. mentary bony cores in, ii. 306; 16 ; resemblance of dogs and jackals, Angora, ii. 318. i. 25; taming of the jackal, i. 27; GODIXE, on prepotency of transmission, number of teeth in dogs, i. 36 ; breeds ii. 41. of dogs, i. 38 ; on tertiary horses, i. GODRON, odour of the hairless Turkish 53 ; Biblical notices of horses, i. 57 ; dog, i. 31 ; differences in the skull of species of Ocis, i. 97 ; wild and dogs, i. 35; increase of breeds of domestic rabbits, i. 107; rabbits horses, i. 53; crossing of domestic from Mount Sinai and Algeria, i. and wild swine, i. 69; on goats, i. 109; earless rabbits, i. 112 ; batra- 105, 106 ; colour of the skin in fowls, chia with doubled limbs, ii. 385. i. 2il; bees of north and south of GESTATION, period of, in the dog, wolf, France, i. 314; introduction of the &c., i. 30, 31; in the pig, i. 77; in silkworm into Europe, i. 317 ; vari- cattle, i. 90, ii. 313; in sheep, i. ability in the silkworm, i. 321 ; sup- 101. posed species of wheat, i. 330, 331 ; GESTURES, inheritance of peculiarities on Zgilops triticoides, i. 330; vari- iir, i. 450. able presence of barbs in grasses, i. " GIIOONDOOKS" a sub-brced of fowls, 331 ; colours of the seeds of maize, i. i. 241. 339 ; unity of character in cabbages, GHOB-KHUR, ii. 17. i. 342; correlation of colour and GILES, Mr., effect of cross-breeding in odour, i. 343; effect of heat and the pig, i. 436. moisture on the cabbage, ibid. ; on GIRAFFE, co-ordina!ion of structure of, the cultivated species of Brassica, i. ii. 296. 344; on the Rounciv;ll and sugar GIRARD,period of appearance of perma- peas, i. 346; variation in the num- nent teeth in.dogs, i. 36. bers of peas in the same pod, i. 347 ; GIRAUD-TEULON,cause of short sight, wild vines in Spain, i. 352; on i. 453. raising peaches from seed, i. 360; GIROU DE BUZAREINGUES,inheritance in supposed specific distinctness of peach the horse, i. 455 ; reverston by age in and nectarine, i. 361 ; nectarine pro- cattle, ii. 12; prepotency of trans- ducing peaches, i. 362 ; on the flower mission of character in sheep and of Corydalis, ii. 336; origin and cattle, ii. 41 ; on crossing gourds, ii. variations of the plum, i. 367 ; origin 86. of the cherry, i. 368; reversion of GISBURNE, wild cattle at, i. 88. single-leaved strawberries, i. 375 ; Gladiolus, i. 388 ; self-impotence of five-leaved variety of Fragaria collina, hybrids of, ii. 121. ibid. ; supposed immutability of Gladiolus colvillii, bud-variation in, i. specific characters, i. 381, 382; 407. varieties of Robin&, i. 385 ;. per- perforated in tufted, ibid. ; charac- GRAY,ASA, superior wild varieties of ters of breeds and sub-breeds of, i. fruit-trees, i. 327 ; cultivated native 303, 304; variety of, from Sebastopol, plants of North America, i. 329,380 ; i. 304, ii. 386 ; feral, in La Plata, i. non-variation of weeds, i. 335 ; sup- 199 ; Egyptian, hybrid of, with pen- psed spontaneous crossing of Cucur- guin duck, ii. 43 ; spontaneous bitaces, ,i. 430 ; pre-ordination of segregation of varieties of, ii. 82 ; variation, ii. 428; progeny of husked fertility of, increased by domestica- form of maize, i. 339; wild inter- tion, ii. 90 ; decreased fertility of, in mediate forms of strawberries, i. 373. Bogota, ii. 145 ; sterility of, in the GRAY,G. K., on Colzlrnhngyinmcyclus, i. Philippine Islands, ibid. ; selection 193. of, ii. 188; white, preference of the GRAY,J. E., on Sus pZiciceps, i. 72 : on Romans for the liver of, ii. 194; I a variety of the gold-fish, i. 313; persistency of character in, ii. 241; hybrids of the ass and zebra, ii. 16, hgyptian, change in breeding season 17; on the breeding of animals at of, ii. 294. Knowsley, ii. 131; on the breeding GOOSEBERRY,i. 376-378; bnd-variation of birds in captivity, ii. 140. in the, i. 400; Whitesmith’s, ii. GBEENE, J. REAY, on the development 218. of the echinodermata, ii. 362. G~PPEET,on monstrous poppies, ii. 150. GREENHOW,Mr., on a Canadian web- GOB~E,P. H., feral dogs in Jamaica, i. footed dog, i 41. 256 GREENING IKDEX. HARE.

GREENING, Mr., experiments on &rum: tivity, ii. 137 ; appearance of " black- grossulariata, ii. 270. shouldered " among ordinary pea- GREGSON,Mi.., experiments on Abruxaa cocks, i. 306. grossulariata, ii. 270. GREY,Sir GEORGE,preservation of sead- HABIT, influence of, in acclimntisation, bearing plants by the Australiau sa- ii, 302-305. vages, i. 327 ; detestation of incest by HACKEL,on fissiparous reproduction, ii. Australian savages, ii. 103. 357 ; on cells, ii. 366 ; on the double GREYHOUNDS,sculptured on Egyptian reproduction of medusae, ii. 379 ; on monuments, and in the Villa of Anto- inheritance, ii. 391. ninus, i. 17 ; modern breed of, i. 43 ; HACKLES,peculiarities of, in fowls, i. crossed with the bulldog, by Lord 266. Orford, ii. 73 ; o!ose interbreeding of, HAIR, on the face, inheritance of, in ii. 100 ; co-ordination of structure man, i. 449: peculiar lock of, in- of, due to selection, ii. 206, 207 ; herited, ibid.; qrowth of, under Italian, ii. 212. stimulation of skin, ii. 319 ; hoino- GREYNESS,inherited at corresponding logous variation of, ii. 318 ; develop- periods of life, ii. 53. ment of, in the brain, ii. 386. GRIEVE,Mr., on early-flowering dahlias, HAIR and teeth, correlation of, ii. 319- i. 394. 321. GRIWR, Afr.,,. acclirnntisation of the HAIRYfamily, corresponding period of Scotch fir, 11. 300. inheritance in, ii. 53. GRONLAND, hybrids of Ji'gilops and HALF-CASTES,character of, ii. 21. wheat, ii. 88. HALF-LOPrabbits, figured and described, GROOM-NAPIER,C. O., on the webbed i. 111, 112 ; skull of, i. 124. feet of the otter-hound, i. 41. lIdi&us Eemephalus, copulating in GR~on Pangenesis, ii. 350. captivity, ii. 137. " GROSSES-GORGES" (pigeons), i. 143. HALLAX, Col., on a two-legged race of GROUND-TUMBLER,Indian, i. 157. pigs, i. 448. G~OUSE, fertility of, in captivity, ii. HALLET, Major, selection in cereals, i. 139. 184 ; on pedigree wheat, i. 332. Grus montgresia, cinereu, and antigonc, HAMBURGHfowl, i. 238, 274; figured, ii. 140. i. 239. GUANAWS,selection of, ii. 192. HAMIL'ION, wild cattle of, i. 87. GUANS, general fertility of, in captivity, HAMILTOX, Dr., on the assumption of ii. 139. male plumage by the hen pheasant, GUELDER-ROSE,ii. 169. ii. 26. GUELDDERLAND fowls, i. 241. HAMILTON,F. HUCIIANAN,on the sharl- GUIANA,selection of dogs by the Indians dock, i. 355; varieties of Indian culti- of, ii. 191. vated plants, ii. 243. GUINEAfowl, i. 316 ; feral, in 4scension HANCOCK, Mr., sterility of tamed birds, and Jamaica, i. 200, ii. 7; inditrer- ii. 138, 140. ence of, to change of climate, ii. 145. HANDWRITINQ, inheritance of pecu- GUINEApig, i. 467, ii. 135. liarities in, i. 44'3. GULDENSTADT.on the jackal. i. 25. HANZIER, Sir J., on selection of flomer- GULL, herring; breedin; in confinement, seeds, ii. 188. ii. 141. HAKSELL, Mr., inheritance of dark yolks GULL^ general sterility of, in Captivity, in duck's eggs, i. 295. ii. 141. HARCOURT,E. Y., on the Arab boar- Gulo, sterility of, in captivity, ii. 134. hound, i. 18; aversion of the Arabs GUNTHER, A,, on tufted ducks and to dun-coloured horses, i. 58. geese, i. 289 ; on the regeneration of HARDY, Mr., effect of excess of nourish- lost parts in batrachia, ii. 358. ment or: plants, ii. 244. GURNEY, Mr., owls breeding in cap- HARE, hybrids 6f, with rabbit, i. 109; 135 ; preference of, for particular ing by bud-variation, i. 412. plants, ii. 218. HEMLOCK,yields no conicine in Scotlmd, HARE-LIP,inheritance of, i. 466. ii. 264.

saxifrage, ii. 150. the, ii. 26, 29 ; development of spurs HASORAwheat, i. 331. in the, ii. 310. HAUTBOISstrawberry, i. 375. ‘‘ HENNIES,”or hen-like male fowls, i HAWKER,Col., on call or decoy ducks, 264. i. 296. HENRY,T. A., a variety of the ash pro- HAWTHORN,varieties of, i. 385,387 ;py- duced by grafting, i. 418 ; crossing ramidal, i. 385 ;pendulous hybridised, of species of R?hod&ndron and Arab, i. 461; changes of, by age, i. 387, i. 431. 413 ; bud-variation in the, i. 402 ; HENSLOW,Prof., individual variation in flower buds of, attacked by bull- wheat, i. 332; bud-variation in the finches, ii. 217. Austrian bramble rose, i. 406 i partial HAYES, Dr., character of Esquimnux reproduction of the weeping ash by dogs, i. 22. seed, i. 462. HAYWOOD,W., 01 the feral rabbits of HEPATICA,chmccd -~ by trancplantation, Porto Santo, i. 117. i. 412. HAZEL,purple-leaved, i. 385, 419, ii. HERBERT, Dr., variations of Vio’a 334. grandifloru, i. 392 ; bud-variation in HEADof wild boar and Yorkshire pig, camellias, i. 401 ; seedlings from figured, i. 75. reverted Cytisus adami, i. 414; HEADand limbs, Correlated vari‘tbility crosses of Swedish and other turnips, of, ii. 315. ii. 71 ; on hollyhocks,ii. 185; breed- HEADACHE,inheritance of, ii. 55. ing of hybrids, ii. 112 ; self-impotcnce HEARTSEASE,i. 391-393 ; change pro- in hybrid hippeastrums, ii. 120,121 ; duced in the, by transplantation, i. hybrid Gladiolus, ii. 121 ; or Zephyr- 413 ; rerersion in, ii. 4, 22 ; effects of anthes candkia, ii. 147; fertility of selection on, ii. 184; scorching of, ii. the crocus, ii. 148 ; on contabescence, 214 ; effects of seasonal conditions on ii. 149; hybrid Bhododendron, ii. the, ii. 263 ; annual varieties of the, 253. ii. 295. HERCULANEUM,figure of a pig found HEAT, effect of, upon the fleece of sheep, in, i. 71. i. 102. HERON,Sir R., appearance of ‘‘ black- HEBER,Bishop, on the breeding of the shouldered ” among ordinary pea- rhinoceros in captivity, ii. 132. cocks, i. 306,307 ; non-inheritance of HEBRIDES,cattle of the, i. 84 ; p’=iveons monstrous characters by gold-fish, i. of the, i. 192. 313; crossing of white and coloured H~ER,O., on the plants of the Swiss Angora rabbits, ii. 70; crosses of lake-dwellings, i. 326, ii. 200, 422 ; solid-hoofed pigs. i6id. on the cereals, i. 335-337; on the Herpestes fascia:us and griseus, ii. 134. peas, i. 345 ; on the vine growing in HEUSINGER,on the sheep of the Taren- Italy in the Bronze age, i. 352. tino, ii. 212 ; on correlated constitu- HEIYANN,potato-grafting, i. 422. tional peculiarities, ii. 331, Hdk lactea, ii. 270. HEWITT, Xr., reversion in bantam cocks, 458 HIBBEBT. INDEX. HOMOLOGOUS. --____ i. 251 ; degeneration of silk fowls, i. produced in old combs, ibid. ;varia- 255 ; partial sterility of hen-like bility in, i. 315 ; crossing of Ligurian male fowls, i. 265; production of and common, ibid. tailed chickens by rumpless fowls, i. HOBBS,FISHER, on interbreeding pigs, ii. 271; on tatning and rearing wild 100. ducks, i. 292, ii. 219, 250 ; conditions '' HOCKER-TAUBE,"i. 148. of inheritance in laced Seb::ght ban- HODGKIN,Dr., on the attraction of foxes tams, i. 465 ; reversion in rumpless by a female Dingo, i. 32; origin of fowls, ii. 4; reversion in fowls by the Newfoundland dog, i. 44 ; trans- age, ii. 13 ; hybrids of pheasant and mission of a peculiar lock of hair, i. fowl, ii. 19, 43; assumption of male 449. characters by female pheasants, ii. H~DGSON,Mi,., domestication of Canis 26 ; development of latent characters priinczvus, i. 27; development of a in a barren bantam hen, ii. 29; fifth digit in Thibet mastiffs, i. 37 ; mongrels from the silk-fowl, ii. 42 ; number of ribs in humped cattle, i. efFects of close inter-breeding on fowls, 83; on the sheep of the Himalaya, ii. 105, 106; on feather-legged i. 98; presence of four marnrnze in bantams. ii. 314. sheep, 1. 99; arched nose in sheep, HIBBERT,Mr., on the pigs of the Shet- ibid. ; measurements of the intestines land Islands, i. 74. of !goats, i. 106; presence of inter- HIBISCUS. fie Paritium. digital pits in goats, ibz. ;disuse a HIGHLAXDcattle, descended from Bos cause of' drooping ears, ii. 201. lon$frons, i. 85. HOFACKER,persistency of colour in HILDEBRAND, Dr., on graft-hybrids horses, i. 53, i. 464; production of with the potato, i. 420; on the in- dun horses from parents of different fluence of pollen on the mother-plant, colours, i. 62 ; inheritance of peculi- i. 430 ;on the fertilisation of Orchidm, arities in handwriting, i. 450 ;heredity i. 434,435 ;occasional necessary cross- in a one horned stag, i. 456; on ing of plants, ii. 68; on seeds not consanguineous marriages, ii. 105. fitted for distribution, i. 330 ; potnto- HOFFMAN, Prof., on Raphanus, i. 345. grafting, i. 420 ; crossing of varieties, HOG, Red River, ii. 133. ii. 83 ; on PrimuZa sinensis and Oxalis HOW, Mr., retardation of breeding in t*osea, ii. 113 ; on Co/*ydalbcava, ii. cows by hard liviug, ii. 90. 113,114. HOLLAND, Sir H., necessity of in- HILL, R., on the Alco, i. 32; feral heritance, i. 446; on hereditary rabbits in Jamaica, i. 116; feral pea- diseases, i 451; hereditary pcu- cocks in J.imaica, i. 200 ; variation of liarity in the eyelid, i. 452 ; morbid the Guinea fowl in Jamaica, i. 310 j uniformity in the same family, i. 459 ; sterility of tamed birds in Jamaica, trausmission of hydrocele through ii. 138, 140. the female, ii. 27; inheritance of HIMALAYA,range of gallinaceous birds habits and tricks, ii. 389. in the, i. 249. HOLLY, varieties of the, i. 384, 385; HIMALAYANrabbit, i. 112, 113-115; bud-reversion in, i. 409; yellow- skull of, i. 125. berried, i. 462, ii. 216. HIMALAYANsheep, i. 98. HOLLYHOCK, bud-variation in, i. 402 ; HINDMARSH, Mr., on Chillingham cattle, non-crossing of double varieties of: i. 88. ii. 85; tender variety of the, ii. '' HINEEL-TAUBE," i. 149, 150. 301. HINNYand mule, difference of, ii. 43. HONER, notice of geese, i. 302; breed- Hipparion, anomalous resemblance to, in ing of the horses of heas, ii. 186. horses, i. 52. HOMOLOGOUSparts, correlated varia- Hil0peastrum, hybrids of, ii. 120, 121. bility of, ii. 314-325, 346, 347; HIVE-BEES, ancient domestication of, i. fusion of, ii. 333 ; affinity of, ii, 313 ; breeds of, i. 314 ; smaller when 333, 334. HOOFS. INDEX. HUTH.

EIOOFS. correlated with hair in varia- in Paraguay, ii. 80; wild species of, tion; ii. 318. breeding in captivity, ii. 132 ; curly, HOOK-BILLEDduck, skull figured, i. in Paraguay, ii. 189, 318 ; selection 297. of, for trifling characters, ii. 195 ; HOOKER, Dr. J. D., forked shoulder. unconscious selection of, ii. 197, 198 ; stripe in Syrian asses, i. 67 ; voice ol natural selection in Circassia, ii. 210 ; the cock in Sikkim, i. 252; use 01 alteration of coat of, in coal-mines, Arum-roots as food, i. 324; native ii. 268 ; degeneration of, in the Falk. useful plants of Australia, i. 328, land Islands, ii. 265; diseases of, wild walnut of the Himalayas, i caused by shoeing, ii. 290; feeding 379; variety of the plane-tree, i on meat, ii. 294; white and white- 386 ; production of Thuja orientaB spotted, poisoned by mildewed vetches, from seeds of T. pendula, ihid., ii. 331 ; analogous variations in the singular form of Begonia frigidu, i. colour of, ii. 341 ; teeth developed on 389; reversion in plants run wild, palate of, ii. 385 ; of Bronze period ii. 7 ; on the sugar-cane, ii. 153 ; on in Denmark, ii. 423. Arctic plants, ii. 244; on the oak HORSE-CHESTNUT, early, at the Tuileries, grown at the Cape of Good Hope, ii. i. 386 ; tendency to doubleness in, ii. 264; on Rhdedendron ciliatum, ii. 152. 267 ; stock and mignonette perennial HORSE-RADISII,general sterility of the, in Tasmania, ii. 295. ii. 154. HOPKIRK, Mr., bud-variation in the ;‘HOUDAN,”a French sub-breed of rose, i. 406 ; in Mirabilis jalapa, i. fowls, i. 241. 407 ; in Conuolz-u’ustricolor, i. 440. HOWARD,C., on an Egyptian monument, HOBNBEAM,heterophyllous, i. 385. i. 17; on crossing sheep, ii. 73, HORNEDfowl, i. 241 ; skull figured, i. 99. 279. HUC, on the Emperor Khang-hi, ii. HORNLE~cattle in Paraguay, i. 92. 189 ; Chinese varieties of the bam- HORNS of sheep, i. 98; correlation of, boo, ii. 243. with fleece in sheep, ii. 318; corre- HIJMBOLDT,A., character of the Zam- lation of, with the skull, ii. 327; bos, ii. 21; parrot speaking in the rudimentary in young polled cattle, language of an extinct tribe, ii, 138; ii. 306 ; of goats, i. 106. on Pulex penetrans, ii. 265. ~ICRSES,in Swiss lake-dwellings, i. 51 ; HUMIDITY, injurious effect of, upon different breeds of, in Malay Srchi- horses, i. 55. pelago, ibid. ; anomalies in osteology HUMPHREYS, Col., on Ancon sheep, i. and dentition of, i. 52; mutual 104. fertility of different breeds, i. 53; HUNGARIAN cattle, i. 84. feral, i. 54; habit of scraping away HUNTER, JOHN,period of gestation in snow, i. 56; mode of production 01 the dog, i. 30; on secondary sexual breeds of, i. 57; inheritance and characters, i. 188 ; fertile crossing dirersity of colour in, i. 58; dark of Anser ferns and the domestic stripes in, i. 58-63, ii. 343; dun- goose, i. 303; inheritmce of pecu- coloured, origin of, i. 61 ; colours of liarities in gestures, voice, &c., i. 450 ; feral, i. 63, 64; effect of fecundation assumption of male characters by by a quagga on the subsequent pro- the human female, ii. 26 ;. period of geny of, i. 435 ; inheritance of pecu- appearance of herzditary diseases, ii. liarities in, i. 454,45ti ; polydactylisni 54 ; graft of the spur of a cock upon in, i. 459 ; inheritance of colour in, its comb, ii. 286 ; on the stomach of i. 465; inheritance of exostoses in Larus tridentatus, ii. 292. legs of, i. 469; reversion in, i¶. 6, IUNTER,W., evidence against the. in- 15; hybrids of, with ass and zebra, fluence of imagination upon the ii. 16 ; prepotency of transmission in offspring, ii. 251. the sexes of, ii. 40; segregation of, IUTH,Mr., close interbreeding of rabbits 460 HUTTON. INDEX. ISHERITANCE. ---.---____-- ii. 100 j consanguineous marriages, HYDRANGEA,colour of flowe1.s of, in- 103. fluenced by aliiin, ii. 267. IIUTTON, Capt., on the variability of HYDROCEI~E,ii. 27. the silk moth, i. 320 ;on the number HYDROCEPHALUS,ii. 285. of species of silkwornis, i. 316; Hypcricwn calycinutn, ii. 15-1. markings of silkworms, i. 318; do- Hypericum crispurn, ii. 212, 331. mestication of the rock-pigeon in HYPERJIETAMORPHOSIS,ii. 363. Iudia, i. 194; domestication and HYPERMETROPIA,hereditary, i. 452. crossing of Gallus bankiva, i. 248; reversion in goats from a cross, ii. ICHTHYOPTERYGIA,number of digits 19. in the, ii. 16. HUTCHINSON,Col., liability of dogs to Ilez aquifoZium, i. 462. distemper, i. 37. IMAGINATION, supposed effect of, on HUXLICY,Prof., on the transmission of offspring, ii. 251. polydactylism, i. 457 ; on unconscious Imatophyllurn miniaturn, bud-rariation selection, ii. 178; on correlation in in, i. 411. the mollusca, ii. 312; on gemmation INCEST, abhorred by savages, ii. 103. and fission, ii. 351 ; development of INCUBATION, by crossed fowls of non- star-fishes, ii. 362. sitting varieties, ii. 18. HYACINTNS, i. 391-396 ; bud-variation INDIA, striped horses of, i. 61 ; pigs of, in, i. 411 ; graft-hybrid by union of i. 69, 80; breeding of rabbits in, i. half bulbs of, i. 419; white, repro- 116; cultivation of pigeons in, i. duced by seed, i. 463; red, ii. 215, 215. 330 ; varieties of, recoguisable by INDIVIDUAL variability in pigeons, i. the bxlb, ii. 238. 166-168. HYACINTII, feather, ii. 1G9, 306. INGLEDEW, Mr., cultivation of Euro- Hyacinthus orientalis, i. 392. pean vegetables in India, ii. 153. Hybiseus syriacus, ii. 277. INDISCHETaube,” i. 151. HYBRIDS, of hare and rabbit, i. 109; LNHERITANCE, i. 445-473, ii. 366-369, of various species of Gabs, i. 245- 396; doubts entertained of, by 248 ; ofalmond, peach, and nectarine. some writers, i. 446 ; importance of, i. 359 ; tiaturally produced, of species to breeders, i. 446, 447 ; evidence of, of Cytibus, i. 413 ; from twin-seed of derived from statistics of chances, i. Fuchsia coccinca and ful,icns, i. 426 ; 449 ; of peculiarities in man, i. 449- reversion of, i. 425, 426, ii. 9, 22-24 ; 451,457-460 ; of disease, i. 451,452, from mare, ass, and zebra, ii. 16 ; of 460 ;of peculiarities in the eye, i. 452- tame animals, wildness of, ii. 19, 20 ; 454 ; of deviations from symmetry, female instincts of sterile male, ii. i. 457 ; of polydactyliam, i. 457-460 ; 27 ; transmission and blending of capriciousness of, i. 460-465 ;of mnti- characters in, ii. 69-73 ; breed better lations, i. 466 ; of congenital monstro- with parent species than with each sities, i6id.; causes of absence of, i. 467- other, ii. 112 ; self-impotence in, ii. 472 ; by reversion or atavism, ii. 1- 119-121 ; readily produced in cap- 36 ; its connection with fixedness of tivity, ii. 133. character, ii. 37-39 ; affected by pre- HYBRIDISATION,singular effects of, in potency of transmission of character, oranges, i. 357 ; of’ cherries, i. 369 ; ii. 40-47 ;limited by sex, ii. 47-51 ;at difficulty of, in Cwrbit(c) i. 301; corresponding periods of life, ii. 51- of roses, i. 390. 57 ;summary of the subject of, ii. 57- HYBRIDISM,ii. 162-165: the cause of 61 ; laws of, the same in seminal and a tendency to double flowers, ii. 156 ; bud varieties, i. 442; of characters in relation to Pangenesis, ii. 381. in the horse, i. 53 ; in cattle, i. 90 ; HYBRIDITYin cats, i. 46, 47 ; supposed, in rabbits, i. 111 ; in the peach, i. 360 : of peach and nectarine, i. 363. in the nectarine, ibid.; in plums, i. Hydra, i. 398, ii. 283, 352. 368; in apples, i. 372; in pears INSANITY. INDEX. JUAN DE KOVA. 461

ibd; in the pansy, i. 393; of pri- IVY, sterility of, in the norf h of Europe, mary characters of Columba Zicia in ii. 154. crossed pigeons, i. 211; of pecu- liarities of plumage in pigeons, i. 169, JACK,Mi.., erect of foreign pollen on 170; of peculiarities of foliage in grapes, i. 430. trees, i. 385; effects of, in varieties JACKAL, i. 25, 28, 31 ; hybrids of, with of the cabbage, i. 344. the dog, i. 33; prepotency of, over INSANITY, inheritance of, i. 451, ii. the dog, ii. 43. 55. JACKSON, Mi,., white-footed cats, ii. INSECTS,regeneration of lost parts in, i. 316. 358, ii. 284; agency of, in fecundation JACOBIN pigeon, i. 161, 218. of larkspurs, i. 464 ; effect of changed JACQUEMET-BONNEFORT,on the mul- conditions upon, ii. 141 ; sterile berry, i. 354. neuter, ii. 171; monstrosities in, ii. JAEGER,Prof., on reversion in pigs. 257, 385 from a cross, ii. 17; white pigeons INSTINCTS,defective, of silkworms, i. killed by hawks, ii. 215. 320. JAGUAR, with crooked legs, i. 17. INTERBREEDING,close, ill effects of, ii. JAMAICA, feral dogs of, i. 28; fei-a1 92-111,159. pigs of, i. 80; feral rabbits of, i. 116. INTERCROSSING,of species, as a cause of JAMESON,MI-., on hybrid potatoes, i. variation, i. 197; natural, of plants, 421. i. 356; of species of Canidie and JAPAN, horses of, i. 56. breeds of dogs, i. 32-34; of domestic JAPAXE~ICpig (figured), i. 72. and wild rats, i. 46, 47 ; of breeds of JARDINE, Sir W., crossing of domestic pigs, f. 74, 81 ; of cattle, i. 86; of and wild cats, i. 46. varieties of cabbage, i. 343 ; of pes, JARVES, J., silkworm in the Sandwich i. 345, 348, 349 ; of varieties of Islands, i. 318. orange, i. 351 ; of species of straw- JAVA, fantail pigeon in, i. 155. berries, i. 373, 374; of Cucurbite, i. JAVANESEponies, i. 56, 61. 380,381 ; of flowering plants, i. 388 ; JEITTELES, history of the dog, i. 15; of pansies, i. 392. history of the fowl, i. 258; Hun- INTERDIGITALpits, in goats, i. 106. garian sheep-dogs, i. 24 ; crossing of INTERJIARRIAGES,close, ii. 102, 103. domestic and wiid cats, i. 46. INTESTINES, elongation of, in pigs, i. JEYMYBUTTON, i. 326. 77 ; relative measurement of parts JENYNS, L., whiteness (of ganders, i. of, in goats, i. 106 ; effects of changed 303; sunfish-like variety of the diet on, ii. 292. goldfish, i. 313. Ipmcea purpurea, ii. 108. JERDON, J. C., number of eggs laid by IRELAND,remains of Bos frontosus and the pea-hen, ii. 191 ; origin of lmgifrons found in, i. 85. domestic fowl, i. 248. IRIS, hereditary absence of the, i. 454 ; JERSEY,aborescent cabbages of, i. 341. hereditary peculiarities of colour of JESSAMINE, i. 418. the, ibid. j variation of, i. 412. JESSE, G. K., on tho bulldog, i. 44. Iris xtj.du’um, i. 412. JOHN, Kinq, importation of stallions IRISH, ancient, selection practised by from Flanders by, ii. 187. the, ii. 187. JOHNSON, D., occurrence of stripes on IRON period, in Europe, dog of, i. IS. young wild pigs in India, i. 80. ISLANDS, oceanic, scarcity of useful JORDAN, A., on Vibert’s experiments on plants OD, i. 328. the vine, i. 352 ; origin of varieties ISLAY, pigeons of, i. 193. of the apple, i. 372; varieties of ISOLATION, effect of, in favour of selec- pears found wild in woods, ii. 247. tion, ii. 219, 220. JOURDAN, parthenogenesis in the silk- ITALY, vine-growing in, during the moth, ii. 357. Bronze period, i. 352. JTJANDE NOVA,wild dogs on, i. 27. 462 JCAN. INDEX. hllOPF-TA L’BEN.

JUAN VERNANDEZ, dumb dogs on, i. 27. KIRGHISIAN sheep, i. 102. Juglans regia, i. 379. KITE, breeding in captivity, ii. 137. JUKES, Prof., origin of the h’ewfound- KLEINE, variability of bees, i. 314. land dog, i. 44. KNIGHT, ANDREW, on crossing horses of .JULIEN, Stanislas, early domestication different breeds, i. 53 ; crossing varie- of pigs in China, i. 71 ; antiquity of ties of peas, i. 345, ii. 110;. persis- the donicstication of the silkworm in tency of raricties of peas, 1. 348; China, i. 316. origin of the peach, i. 357 ; hybridi- JUMPERS, a breed of fowls, i. 241. sation of the morello by the Elton JUNIPER, variations of the, i. 385, 387. cherry, i. 368 ; on seedling cherries, Juniprus suecicu, i. 385. i. 369; variety of the apple not Jussim grandkdora, ii. 154. attacked by coccus, i. 371 ; intercross- JUSSIEU, A. de, atructure of the pappus ing of strawberries, i. 373,374; broad in Carthamus, ii. 307. variety of the cock’s-comb, i. 389; bud variation in the cherry and KAIL, Scotch, reversion in, ii. 5. plum, i. 399; crossinq of white and KALES, i. 341. purple grapes, i. 41 9 j experiments “ KALI-PAR ” pigeon, i. 149. in crossing apples, i. 433, ii. 110; KALM, P., on maize, i. 340, ii. 298; in- hereditary disease in plants, i. 445 ; troduction of wheat inQo Canada, i. on interbreeding, ii. 95; crossed 333; sterility of trees growing in varieties of wheat, ii. 110; necessity marshes and dense woods, ii. 154. of intercrossing in plants, ii. 159; “ KALMI LOTAN” tumbler pigeon, i. on variation, ii. 243, 244; effects of 157. grafting, i. 413, ii. 267 ; bud-varia- KANE, Dr., on Ksquimaux dop, i. 22. tion in a plum, ii. 281; correlated KARAKOOLsheep, i. 102. variation of head and limbs, 315. KARKEEK, on inheritance in the horse, KNOX, Mr., breeding of the eagle owl i. 455. in captirity, ii. 137. “ KARMELITENTaube,” i. 164. KOCH, degeneracy in the turnip, i. KARSTEN on Pulex penetrans, ii. 265. 344. KATTYWARhorses, i. 61. KOHLRABI, i. 343. KEELEY, R., pelorism in Guleobdolon KOLREUTER, reversion in hybrids, i. luteum, ii. 33. 425, ii. 9; acquired sterility of KERNER, on the culture of Alpine crossed varieties of plants, i. 381, plants, ii. 147; definite action of ii. 79; absorption of Nirabilis aul- conditions, ii. 51. gwis by M. longijoru, ii. 65 ; crosses KESTREL, breeding in captivity, ii. 137. of species of Verbascum, ii. 71, 85 ; “ KHAND~X,”i. 147. on the hollyhock, ii. 85; crossing KHANG-HI, selection of a variety of rice varieties of tobacco, ii. 87 ; benefits by, ii. 189. of crossing plants, ii. 110, 111, 159, KIANG, ii. 17. 160 ; sclf-impotence in Verbascum, i KIDD, on the canary-bird, i. 311, ii. 53. 118, 122; effects of conditions of KIDNEY bean, i. 296; varieties of, ii. growth upon fertility in Mirabiiis, ii. 243. 265. 147; great development of tubers KIDNEYS, compensatory derelopment in hybrid plants, ii. 156 ; inheritance of the, ii. 290; shape of, in birds cf plasticity, ii. 227; variability of influenced by the form of the pelvis, hybrids of Mirabrlis, ii. 2.53 ; repeated ii. 336. crossing a cmse of variation, ii. 254, KING. Col., domestication of rock doves 256 ; number of pollen-grains neces- from the Orkneys, i. 193, 194. sary for fertilisation, ii. 356. KING, Dr., on Paritium, i. 402. “ KRAUSESCHWEIN,” i. 70. KING, P. P., on the dingo, i. 21, 38. KROHN, on the double rcproduction of KIRBY and Spence, on the growth of Meduse, ii. 379. galls, ii. 273. L‘ KROPF-TAUBEN,” i. 143. LABAT. INDEX. LEQf AT. 463 - -- LABAT, on the tusks of feral boars in ('LATZ-TAOBE," i. 162. the West Indies, i. 180 ; on French LAUGHERpigeon, i. 163, 217. wheat grown in the West ludies, ii. Laurus sassafras, ii. 264. 297; on the culture of the vine in LAWRENCE,J., production of a new the West Indies, ii. 298. breed of foxhounds, i. 42 ; occurrence LABURNUM,Adam's, see Cytisirs adami; of canines in mares, i. 52 ; on three- oak-leaved, reversion of, i. 408 ; pelo- parts-bred horses, i. 57; on inheri- rism in the, ii. 338 ; Waterer's, i. 416. tance in the horse, i. 454,455. LACHMANN,on gemmation and fission, LAWSON,Mr., varieties of the potato, i. ii. 351. 350. Lmhnanthes tinctoria, ii. 212, 330. LAXTON, Mr., bud-variation in ths LACTATION, imperfect, hereditary, i. gooseberry, i, 400; crossing of 452; deficient, of wild animals in varieties of the pea, i. 428, 429 ; captivity, ii. 142. weakness of transmission in peas, ii. LADRONEIslands, cattle of, i. 89. 42 ; double-flowered peas, ii. 152. LA GAWA,Prof., individual variation in LAYARD,E. L., resemblance of a Caffre wheat, i. 332. dog to the Esquimaux breed, i. 26, ii. LAIN@,Mr., resemblance of Norwegian 276; crossing of the domestic cat and Devonshire cattle, i. 85. with Felis cafra, i. 46 ; feral pigeons LAKE-DWELLINGS,sheep of, i. 98, ii. ,in Ascension, i. 200 ; domestic pigeons 423; cattle of, ibid.; absence of of Ceylon, i. 215; on Gallus stanleyi, the fowl in, i. 258; cultivated plants i. 246 ; on black-ekinned Ceylonese of, i. 337, ii. 423, 424; cereals of, i. fowls, i, 269. 335-337; peas found in, i. 345: LE COMPTEfamily, blindness inherited beans found in, i. 849. in, ii. 54. LAMARE-PIQUOT,observations on half- LECOQ,hud-variation in Mirubilk jalapa, bred North American wolves, i. 22. i. 407; hybrids of Mirctbilis, i. 426, LAMRERT,A. B., on Thuja pendula or ii. 153, 253; crossing in plants, ii. Jiliformis, i. 386. 108; fecundationofPassijora, ii. 118; LAYBERTfamily, i. 448, ii. 53. hybrid GladioZus, ii. 121 ; sterility of LABIBERTYE,on strawberries, i. 373, h'anunculus$caria, ii. 154 ;villosity in 354 ; five-leaved variety of Fragaria plants, ii. :'67 ; double asters, ii. 307. collina, i. 375. LE COUTEUR,J., varieties of wheat, i. LANDT, L., on sheep in the Faroe 331-334 ; acclimatisation of exotic Islands, ii. 81. wheat in Europe, i. 333; adaptation LANKESTER,RAY, on longevity, ii. 376. of wheat to soil and climate, ihid.; LA PLATA,wild dogs of, i. 28; feral selection of seed-corn, i. 335; evil from cat from, i. 49. inter-breeding, ii. 101; on change of LARCH,ii. 301. soil, ii. 129; selection of wheat, ii. LARKSPURS,insect agency necessary for 184; natural selection in wheat, ii. the full fecundation of, i. 464. 218 ; cattle of Jersey, ii. 220. Lam argentatus, ii. 141, 292. LEDGER,Mr., on the llama and alpaca, Larus tridactylus, ii. 292. ii. 193. LASTERYE,merino sheep in different LEE, Mr., his early culture of the pansy, countries, i. 103. i. 391. LATENTcharacters, ii. 25-31. Ldersia oryzoi&s, ii. 69. LATIIAY, on the fowl not breeding in LEFOCR,period of gestation in cattle, i. the extreme north, ii. 144. 90. Lathyrus, ii. 11. LEGRAIN,falsified experiments of, ii.100 Lathyrus aphaca, ii. 335. LEGS, of fowls, effects of disuse on, i. tathyrus odoratus, i. 420,463, ii. 68,71, 284-287 ; characters and variations 302. of, in ducks, ii. 299-302. LA TOUCHE,J. D., on a Canadian apple LEOUAT,cattle of the Cape of Good with dimidiate fruit, i. 425, 426. Hope, i. 91. 66 1: LEHYANN. INDEX. LIVIXGSTONE

LEHMANN, occurrence of wildrdouble- LIME-TREE,changes of, by age, i. 387- flowered plants near a hot spring, ii. 413. 152. LIMITATION, sexual, ii, 47-51. LEIG~~TON,W. A., propagation of a LIMITATION,supposed, of variation, ii. weeping yew by seed, i. 461. 412. LEITNER, effects of removal of anthers, Linaria, pelorism in, ii. 32, 35,38; pe- ii. 151. loric, crossed with the normal form, LEMMING,ii. 135. ii. 46 ; sterilitv of, ii. 150. LEMOINE, variegated Symphyium and Linuria vulga?-is and' purpurca, hybrids Phlox, i. 410. of. ii. 72. LEMON, i. 355,356 ; orange fecundated LINDEMuTEI, potato-grafting, i. 422. by pollen of the, i. 430. LINDLEY,JOHN, classification of varie- LEMURS, hybrid, ii. 136. ties of cabbages, i. 342 ; origin of the LEFQRID~,ii. 135. peach, i. 357; influence of soil on LEPSIUS, figures of ancient Egyptian peaches and nectarines, i. 360; varie- dogs, i. 1Y; domestication of pigeons ties of the peach and nectarine, i. in ancient Egypt, 214. 364; on the New Town pippin, i. Lepglacialis, i. 116. 370; freedom of the Winter Majetin Leps magellanicus, i. 117. apple from coccus, i6id. ; production Lepnipps, i. 11 3. of monacious Hautbois strawberries Lepw tibetanus, i. 116. by bud-selection, i. 375; origin of Lepus variabilis, i. 1 15. the large tawny nectarine, i. 399; LEREBOULLET,double monsters of fishes, bud-variation in the gooseberry, i. ii. 333. 400 ; hereditary disease in plants, i. LESLIE, on Scotch wild cattlc, i. 88. 455 ; on double flowers, ii. 151 ; LESSONA,on rc-growth, ii. 358; on seeding of ordinarily seedless fruits, Lepus ntagellanicus, i. 117. ii. 152 ; sterility of Acorus calamus, LETHBRIDGE, previous impregnation, i. ii. 154 ;resistance of individual plants 435. to cold, ii. 299. LEUCKART,on the larva of Cocidomyids, LINNEUS, summer and winter wheat ii. 353. regarded as distinct species by, i. LEWES, G. H., on Pangenesis, ii. 350. 333; on the single-leaved straw- LEWIS, G., cattle of the West Indies, ii. berry, i. 375; sterility of Alpine 214. plants in gardens, ii. 147 ; recognition LHERBEITE and Quatrefages, on the of individual reindeer by the Lap- horses of Circassia, ii. 80, 210. landers, ii. 238; growth of tobacco LICHENS, sterility in, ii. 155. in Sweden, ii. 298. LICHENSTEIN, rescmblance of Bosjes- LINNET, ii. 141. man's dogs to Canis mesomela, i. 26 ; Linofa cannabina, ii. 141. Newfoundland dog at the Cape of Linurn, ii. 149. Gaod Hope, i. 37. LION, fertility of, in captivity, ii. 133, LIEBIG, differences in human blood, ac- 134. cording to complexion, ii. 265. LIPARI, feral rabbits of, i. 118. LIEBREICH, Occurrence of pigmentary LIVINGSTONE,Dr., striped young pigs retinitls in deaf-mutes, ii. 322. on the Zambesi, i. 80 ; domestic rab- LILACS, ii. 148. bits at Loanda, i. 116 ; use of grass- LILIACEB, contabescence in, ii. 149. seeds as food in Africa, i. 326 ;ylant- Liliurn bdb{fererum and davunhm, i. 451. ing of fruit-trees by the Batokas, 1. Lilium candidurn, ii. 118. 336; character of half-castes, ii. 21 ; LIBIBS, regeneration of, ii. 370. taming of animals among the Barotse, LIMBS and head, correlated variation of, ii. 144; selection practised in South ii. 315. Africa, ii. 191, 194. LIME, effect of, upon shells of the mol- LIVINGSTONE,Mr., disuse a caiisc of lusca, ii. 270. drooping ears, ii. 291. LIZABDB. INDEX. LUCAS. 465

LIZARDS, reproduction of tail in, ii. 284. of dahlias from the same seed, i. 394 ; ],LANA, selection of, ii. 192. production of Provence roses from LLOYD,Mr., taming of the wolf, i. 27 ; seeds of the moss rose, i. 405 ; effect English dogs in northern Europe, i. of grafting the purple-leaved upon 37; fertility of the goose increased the common hazel, i. 419; inter- by domestication, i. 303 ; number of crossing melons, ii. 110; nearly eggs laid by the wild goose, ii. 91 ; evergreen Cornish variety of the elm, breeding of the capercailzie in cap. ii. 301. tivity, ii. 139. LOW, G., on the pigs of the Orliney LOANDA, domestic rabbits at, i. 7 16. Islands, i. 74. Loasa, hybrid of two species of, ii. 76. Low, Prof., pedigrees of greyhounds, i. Lobelia, reversion in hybrids of, i. 425 : 447; origin of the dog, i. 16; bur- contabescence in, ii. 149. rowing instinct of a half-bred dingo, Lobelia fulgens, cardinulis, and sypAi6.- i. 28; inheritance of qualities in tica, ii. 117. horses, i. 53 ; comparative powers of LOCKHART,Dr., on Chinese pigeons, i. English race-horses, Arabs, &c., i. 57 ; 216. British breeds of cattle, i. 83; wild LOCUST-TREE,ii. 264. cattle of Chartley, i. 88; effect of LOISELEUR-DESLONGCHAMPS,origi nals abundance of food on the size of of cultivated plants, i. 324; Mon- cattle, i. 95 ; effects of climate on the golian varieties of wheat, i. 331 ; skin of cattle, i. 96, ii. 319 ; on inter- characters of the ear in wheat, Sid. ; breeding, ii. 9.3 ; selection in Hereford acclimatisation of exotic wheat in cattle, ii. 199; formation of new Europe, i. 332; effect of change of breeds, ii. 231 ; on “sheeted” cattle, climate on wheat, i. 334 ; on the sup- ii. 341. posed necessity of the coincident LOWE, Mr., on hive bees, i. 316. variation of weeds and cultivated LOWE, Rev. Mr., on the range of Pyw plants, i. 335 ; advantage of change mulus and P. ucej.ba, i. 370. of soil to plants, ii. 128. LOWNE, Mr., monsters, ii. 333; on Lolium tmulentuin, variable presence gemmnles, ii. 372. of barbs in, i. 331. “ LOWTUN” tumbler pigeon, i. 157. LONG-TAILEDsheep, i. 98. Loxia pyrrhulu, ii. 137. bOCH00 Islands, horses of, i. 56. LUBBOCK,Sir J., developments of the LORD, J. K., on Canis latrans, i. 22. Ephemerids, ii. 361. ‘‘ LORI RAJAH,” how produced, i. 269. LUCAS,P., eflects of cross-breeding on Lorius garrulus, ii. 269. the female, i. 436 ;hereditary diseases, “ LOTAN” tumbler pigeon, i. 157. i. 451, ii. 54, 55 ; hereditary affections LOUDON, J. W., varieties of the carrot, of the eye, i. 453,454 ; inheritance of i. 345 ; short duration of varieties of anomalies h the human eye and in yeas, i. 348 ; on the glands of peach- that of the horse, i. 454; inheritance leaves, i. 364 ; presence of bloom on of polydactylism, i. 455 ; morbid Russian apples, i. 370; origin of unitbrniity in the same family, i. varieties of the apple, i. 372 ; varie- 459 ; inheritance of mutilations, i. ties of the gooseberry, i. 376; on 469 ; persistency of cross-reversion, the nut tree, i. 379 ; varieties of the ii. 9; persistency of character in ash, i. 384; fastigate juniper (J. breeds of animals in wild countries, wcica), i. 385; on Ilex aquifolium ii. 39 ; prepotency of transmission, ii. ferox, ibid. ; varieties of the Scotch 40, 44; supposed rules of trans- fir, i. 386, 387 ; varieties of the mission in crossing animals, ii. 44 ; hawt,horn, i. 387; variation in the sexual limitations of transmission of persistency of leaves on the elm and peculiarities, ii. 48, 49 ; absorption of Turkish oak, i. 386; importance of the minority in crossed races, ii. 65 ; cultivated varieties, i. 387 ; varieties crosses without blending of ccrtain uf Rosa .spinosissimu, i. 391 ; variation characters, ii. 69 ; on interbreeding, 466 LUCAZE. INDEX. MABCEL.

ii. 95 ; variability dependent on re- MADDEN, H., on interbreeding cattle. production, ii. 237 ; period of action ii. 96. of variability, ii. 247 ; inheritance of MADEIRA,rock pigeon of, i. 193. deafness in cats, ii. 322 complexion Magwolia grandiflora, ii. 299. and constitution, ii. 329. MAONUS, Herr, on potato-grafting, i LUCAZE- DUTHIERS, structure and 422 ; on graft-hrbrids, i. 423,424. growth of galls, ii. 272-274. MAIZE, its unity of origin, i. 338 ; anti- LUCAE. Prof., on the masked pig, i. 72 ; quity of, ibid.; with husked grains on pigs, ii. 289. said to grow wild, ibid.; variation of, LUIZET, grafting of a peach-almond on i. 239 ; irregularities in the flowers a peach, i. 359. of, i. 339 ; persistence of varieties, L~~TKE,cats of the Caroline Archipelago, ibid.; adaptation of, to climate, i. i. 49. 310, ii. 297 ; acclimatisation of, ii. LUXURIANCE, of vegetative organs, a 304, 339 ; crossing of, i. 430, ii. 82, cause of sterility in plants, ii. 152, 83 ; extinct Peruvian varieties of, ij. 155. 421. LyoxNEr, on thescission of Xais, ii. 351. MALAYfowl, i. 237. Lysimacfria nurnmularia, sterility of, ii. MALAY Archipelago, horses of, i. 56 ; 154. short-tailed cats of. i. 49: striped Lythrum, trimorphic species of, ii. 394. young wild pigs 06i. 80 ; ducks-of, Lythrum salicaria, ii. 166 ;contabescence i. 294. in, ii. 149. MALE, influence of, on the fecundated Lytta vesicatoria, affecting tho kidneys, female, i. 428-437 ;supposed influence ii. 373. of, on oKspring, ii. 44. MALE flowers, appearance of, among dlacacus, species of, bred in captivity, female flowers in maize, i. 339. ii. 135. MALFORXATIONS,hereditary, 11. 55. MACAULAY,Lord, improvement of the IMALINGI&NOUEL,on sheep, i. 100; English horse, ii. 197. cross-breeding sheep, ii. 45 ; English M'CLELLANI), Dr., variability of fresh- sheep in France, ii. 220. water fishes in India, ii. 246. MALY, eyes of flat fish, ii. 28. M'COY, Prof., on the dingo, i. 26. Malva, fertilisation of, i. 434, ii. 356. MACFAYDEN, influence of soil in pro- Hamestra suasa, ii. 141. ducing sweet 01. bitter oranges from MAMMA?,,variable in number in the pig, the same seed, i. 355. i. 75 ; rudimentary, occasional full MACGILLIVRAY,domestication of the development of, in cows, i. 91, ii. rock-dove, i. 194; feral pigeons in 309; four present in some sheep, i. Scotland, i. 200 ; number of vertebrw 99; variable in number in rabbits, in birds, i. 280; on wild geese, i. i. 110; latent functions of, in male 302 ;number of eggs of wild and tame animals, ii. 2i, 309. ducks, ii. 91. NANGLES,Mr., annual variekies of the MACKENZIE,Sir G., peculiar variety of heartsease, ii. 295. the potato, i. 350. M~NTEGAZZA,abnormal growth of spur MACKFIZIE, P., bud-variation in the of cock, ii. 365; on Pangenesis, ii. currant, i. 400. 351. MACKINNOB,Mr., horses of the Falkland MANTELL, Mr., taming of birds by the Islands, i. 55; feral cattle of the New Zealanders, ii. 144. Falkland Islands, i. 89. MANU, domestic fowl noticed in the In- MACKNIGHT, C., on interbreeding cattle, stitutes of, i. 258. ii. 96. MANURE, effect of, on the fertility of MACNAB, Mr., on seedling weepisg plants, ii. 147. birches, i. 461 ; non-production of MANX cats, i. 48, ii. 41. the weeping beech by seed, i. 462. MARCEL DE SERRES, fertility of the 08- MADAGASCAR,cats of, i. 49. trich, ii. 140. XARIANNE. IRDEX. YEMBRANES. 467 - MARIANNE Islands, varieties of Pan- of peas, i. 348 ; reproduction of colour danus in, ii. 243. in hyacinths, i. 463 ; on hollyhocks, MAEKHAN,GERVASE, on rabbits, i. 108, ii. 85 ; selection of peas for seed, ii. ii. 188. 184 ; on Hibiscus syriacus, ii. 276 ;re- XARKHOR,probably one of the parents version by the terminal pea in the of the goat, i. 105. pod, ii, 340. MAKQUAND,cattle of the Channel MASTIFF, sculptured on an Assyrian Islands, i. 84. monument, i. 17, ii. 424 ; Tibetan, i. MARRIMPOEY,inheritance in the horse, 37, ii. 268. i. 455. MATTIIEW‘S, PATRICK,on forest trees, ii. ARROW, vegetable, i. 380. 223. %I ARRYATT, Capt., breeding of asses in Watthiola annuu, i. 429, 463, ii. 71. Kentucky, ii. 223. Matthiola incana, i. 407,429. MARSDEN, notice of Gallus giganteus, i. MAUCHAMP merino sheep, i. 104. 246. WAUDUYT, crossing of wolves and dogs MARSHALL, Dr. W., on Gallics smnei-atii, in the Pyrenees, i. 24. i. 245. MAUND, Mr., crossed varieties of wheat, MARSHALL, Mr., voluntary selection of ii. 110. pasture by sheep, i. 100; adaptation MAUPERTUIS, axiom of “ least action,” of wheats to soil and climate, i. 334 ; i. 13. “Dutch-buttocked” cattle, i. 452 ; b~AURITIL‘S,importation of goats into, ssgregation of herds of sheep, ii. 81 ; i. 105. advantage of change of soil to wheat hfAW, G., effects of change of climate, i~nd potatoes, ii. 128; fashionable ii. 300 ; correlation of contracted change in the horns of cattle, ii. 195; leaves and flowers in pelargoniums, sheep in Yorkshire, ii. 221. ii. 334, 325. MARTENS,E. VON, on Achu‘inella, ii. hfAWZ, fertility of Brassica rap, ii. 148. 28. Muailkuricr, self-fertilised capsules of, ii. MARTIN,W. C. L., origin of the dog, i. 114. 16 ; Egyptian dogs, i. 18 ; barking of Muxillaria atro-rubens, fertilisation of, a Mackenzie River dog, i. 27 ; African by iM. squalens, ii. 114. hounds in the Tower menagcrie, i. bfAXIMoWICz, direct action of pollen, i. ti3 ; on dun horses and dappled asses, 431. 5. 58; breeds of the horse, i. 51 ; wild MAYERS, on gold-fish in China, i. 312. Jiorses, i. 53 ; Syrian breeds of asses, MAYEB, &I., self-impotence in Amaryllis, i. 65; asses without stripes, i. 66; ii. 120. effects of cross-breeding on the female MECKEL, on the number of digits, i. in dogs, i. 436 ; striped legs of mules, 458 ; correlation of abnormal muscles ii. 16. in the leg and arm, ii. 314. MARTINS, defective instincts of silk- MEDUSZ, development of, ii. 364, 379. worms, i. 321. MEEH.4N, Mr., weeping peach, i. 461 ; MARTIUS, C., fruit-trees of Stockholm, effects of parasites, ii. 275 ; compari- I. ii. 297. son of hrOpei~~1and Americau trees, MASON, W.? bud-variation in the ash, i. ii. 270. 408. Helm tasus, ii. 134. MASTERS, Dr., on bud-variation and MELOXS, i. 383, 384 ; mongrel supposed reversion, i. 403 ; potato-grafting, to be produced from a twin-seed, i. i. 421 ; on pollen within ovules, ii. 427 ; crossing of varieties of, i. 430, 387 ; reversion in the spiral-leaved ii. 86, 109 ; inferiority of, in Roniau weeping willow, i. 408; on peloric times, ii. 200 ; changes in, by culture flowers, ii. 32; on Opntia, ii. 274; and climate, ii. 264 ; serpent, correla- pelorism in a clover, ii. 338 ; position tion of variations in, ii. 324; aiittlo- as a cause of pelorism, ii. 338, 339. gous variations in, ii. 341. MASTERS, ah., persistence of varieties MEMBRANES, false, ii. 284, 255. 468 M~X~~TRIES. INDEX. IOQUIN-TAXDON.

M~N~TRIES,on the stomach of St&x Jfirabilis, fertilisation of, ii. 353 ;hybrids grallaria, ii. 292. of, ii. 111, 153, 253. MENINGITIS, tubercular, inherited, ii. 55, Mirabilis jalap, i. 407, 426. MERRICK, potato-grafting, i. 432. Mwabilis longijora, ii. 65. METAGENESIS, ii. 362. MirabiZis vulgaris, ii. 65. METAMORPHOSIS,ii. 362. Misocarnpw and Cecidom$a, i. 5. METAMORPHOSISand development, ii. MITCHELL, Dr., effects of the poison of 383, 384. the rattlesnake, ii. 279. METZGER, on the supposed species of MITFORD, Mr., notice of the breeding of wheat, i. 329, 330; tendency of wheat horses by Erichthonius, ii. lb6. to vary, i. 332 ; variation of maize, i. "ART, Mr., rudimentary organs, ii. 339, 340 ; cultivation of American 308. maize in Europe, i. 340, ii. 339; on MOCCASCourt, weeping oak at, i. 461. cabbages, i. 341-344 ; acclimatisation MOGFORD,horses poisoned by fool's par- of Spanish wheat in Germany, i. 472 ; sley, ii. 331. advantage of change of soil to plants, IIIOLLER,L., effects of food on insects, ii. 128; on rye, ii. 241 ; cultivation ii. 270. of different kinds of wheat, ii. 248. MOLE, white, ii. 326. MEXICO, dog from, with tan spots on MOLL and Gayot, on cattle, i. 84, ii. 74, the eyes, i. 29 ; colours of feral horses 195. in, i. 64. MOLLUSCA, change in shells of, ii. 270. MEPEN, on seeding of bananas, ii. 152. MONKE, Lady, culture of the pansy by, NICE,grey and white, colours of, not i. 391. blended by crossing, ii. 70 ; rejection MONKEYS, rarely fertile in captivity, of bitter almonds by, ii. 218; naked, ii. 135. ii. 268. MONNIER, identity of summer and MICHAUX,F., roan-coloured feral horses winter wheat, i. 333. of Mexico, i. 64 ; origin of domestic MONSTERS, double, ii. 333, 334. turkey, i. 308; on raising peaches MONSTROSITIES, occurrence of, in do- from seed, i. 360. mesticated animals and cultivated MICHEL, F., selection of horses in mediae- plants, i. 389, ii. 241 ; due to per- val times, ii. 187 ; horses preferred sistence of embryonic conditions, on account of slight characters, ii. ii. 31 ; occurring by reversion, ii. 194. 31-34; a cause of sterility, ii. 150, MICHELY,effects of food on caterpillars, 1.51 ; caused by injury to the embryo, ii. 270 ; on Bombyx hesperus, ii. 329. ii. 257. M;IZCROPHTHALYIA,associated with de- MOOR,J. H., deterioration of the horse fective teeth, ii. 321. in Malasia, i. 56. MIDDENS, Danish, remains of dogs in, i. MOORCROFT, Mr., oh Hasora wheat, i. 18, ii. 423. 331 ; selection of white-tailed yaks, MfGNONETTE, ii. 223, 301. ii. 190; melon of Kaschmir, ii. 264; MILLET, i. 396. varieties of the apricot cultivated in MILLS, J., diminished fertility of mares Ladakb, i. 366; varieties of the when first turned out to grass, ii. walnut cultivated in Kaschmir, i. 145. 379. MILNE-EDWARDS, on the development MOORE, Mr., on breeds of pigeons, i. of the crustacea, ii. 363. 155,163, 217, 219, 221 j on ground MILNE-EDWARDS, #., on a crustacean tumblers, i. 228. with a monstrous eye-peduncle, ii MOORUK, fertility of, in captivity, ii. 383. 140. dlilvus niyer, ii. 137. MOQUIN-TANDON,original form of Mimulus luteus, ii. 109. maize, i. 339 ; variety of the double MINOR, W. C., gemmation md fission in columbine, i. 389 ; peloric flowers, annelids, ii. 351. ii. 33-35; position as a cause of MORLOT. INDEX. NAlLCISSUN. 469

pelorism in flowers, ii. 337 ; tendency MULE and hinny, differences in the, ii. of peloric flowers to become irregular, 43. ii. 46; on monstrosities, ii. 241 j MULES, striped colouring of, ii. 16; correlation in thc axis and appen- obstinacy of, ii. 20; production of, dages of plants, ii. 312; fusion of among the Romans, ii. 88; noticed homologous parts in plants, ii. 333- in the Bible, ii. 186. 335; on a bean with monstrous MULLER, FRITZ,reproduction of orchids, stipules and abortive leaflets, ii. ii. 114-116 ;development ofcrustacea, 335 ; conversion of parts of flowers, ii. 363; direct action of pollen, i. ii. 387. 431 ; self-sterile bignonia, ii. 117. BXORLOT, dogs of the Danish Niddens, MULLER, H., on the face and teeth in I. 18 ; sheep and horse of the Bronze dogs, i. 36, 76, ii. 337. period, ii. 423. MULLER, J., tendency to variation, ii. Mormodes ignea, ii. 28. 239; atrophy of the optic nervr MOROCCO,estimation of pigeons in, i. consequent on destruction of thr 215. eye, ii. 287; on gemmation and MORREN, grafts of Abutilon. i. 418; fission, ii. 351 ; identity of ovules on pelorism, ii. 33; in Calceolaria, and buds, ii. 354; special affinities ii. 338 ; non-coincidence of double of the tissues. ii. 375. flowers and variegated leaves, ii. IVIULLER,MAX, intiquity of agriculture, 151. ii. 230. MORRIS,Mr., breeding of the kestrel in MULTIPLICITY of origin of pigeons, captivity, ii. 137. hypotheses of, discussed, i. 197-203. MORSE,Dr. digits of birds, ii. 315. MUNIZ, F., on Niata cattle, i. 94. MORTON, Lord, effect of fecundation MUNRO, R., on the fertilisation of by a quagga on an Arab mare, i. orchids, ii. 114; reproduction of 435. Passiflora aLda, ii. 119 ; self-sterilo MORTON,Dr.. origin of the dog, i. 16. Passiflora, ibid. Morus ah,i. 354. ‘‘ MURASSA” pigeon, I. 151. Moscow, rabbits of, i. 111, 125 ; effects MURIE, Dr., size of hybrids, ii. 112. of cold on pear-trees at, ii. 297. MURPHY, J. J., the structure of the MOSSES, sterility in, ii. 155; retro- eye not producible by selection, ii. gressive metamorphosis in, ii. 354. 207. MOSS-ROSE, probable origin of, from Mus alexandrinus, ii. 64, 65. Rosa centifolia, i. 405; Provence Musa sapientium, chinensis and caven- roses produced from seeds of, ibid. dishii, 1. 401. MOSTO, Cads, on the introduction of Muscari comosum, ii. 169, 306. rabbits into Porto Santo, i. 117. MUSCLES,effects of use on, ii. 287. MOT-MOT, mutilation of feathers in- MUSK duck, feral hybrid of, with the herited, i. 470. common duck, i. 200. MOTTLINGof fruits and flowers, i. 430. MUTILATIONS, inheritance or non-in- MOUNTAIN-ASH,ii. 216. heritance of, ii. 466, 392. MOUSE, Barbary, ii. 135. MYATT, on a five-leaved variety of the “ MOVEN-TAUBE,” i. 156. strawberry, i. 375. MOWBRAY,Mr., on the eggs of game MYOPIA,hereditary, i. 4.53. fowls, i. 261; early pugnacity of MYRIAPODA,regeneration of lost parts eame cocks. i. 263: diminished fe- in, ii. 284, 358. Zundity of ;he pheasint in .captivity, ii. 139. NAILS,growing on “stumps of fingers, MOWBRAY,Mr., reciprocal fecundation ii. 386. of Passijora aluta and ramosa, ii. NAIS, scission of, ii. 351. 118. NAMAQUAS,cattle of the, i. 91, ii. 192. ~~ULATTOS,character of, ii. 21. NARCISSUS,doub!e, becoming single in MULBEBRY, i. 354, ii. 243. poor soil, ii. 151. 42 470 XARPAEZ. INDEX. XEWPOLT.

NARVAEZ,on the cultivation of native pep, ii. 336 ; analogous variation in plants in Florida, i. 329. Cucurb&z+ ii. 341 ; acclimatisation aNusun, sterility of, in captivity, ii. of Cucurbitacere, ii. 301 ; production 134. of fruit by sterile hybrid Cucurbi- “NATAS,”or Niatas, a LSouth American taccal, ii. 156; on the melon, j. 383, breed of cattle, i. 92-54. ii. 86, 264; incapacity of the cucurn- NATHUSIUS,H. VON,on striped horses, i. ber to cross with other specie$, i. 382. 62; on the pigs of the Swiss lake- NECTARINE,i. 357-365 ; derived from dwellings, i. 71; on the races of the peach, i. 357,360-364; hybrids pigs, i. 68-72; convergence of cha- of, i. 360 ; persistency of characters racter in highly-bred pigs, i. 76, ii. in seedling, ibid.; origin of, i. 361, 227; causes of changes in the form produced on peach-trees, i. 361, 362 ; of the pig’s skull, i. 75, 76 ; changes producing peaches, i. 361 ; variation in breeds of pigs by crossing, i. 82 ; in, i. 363, 364; bud-variation in, i. change of form in the pig, ii. 269 ; 398; glands in the leaves of the, ii. effects of disuse of parts in the pig, 217 ; analogous vari;rtion in, ii. 341. ii. 289; period of gestation in the KECTARY, variations of, in pansies, i. pig,. i. 77 ; appendages to the jaw 393. in pigs, i. 79 ; on Sus plickeps, i. 72 ; NEE&on changes in the odour of plan&, period of gestation in sheep, i. 101 ; ii. 264. on Niata cattle, i. 93; on short- LL NEGRO”cat, i. 48. horn cattle, ii. 96 ; on interbreeding, NEGROES,polydartylism in, i. 548; ii. 95; in the sheep, ii. 98; in pigs, selection of cattle practised by, ii. ii. 101 ;unconscious selection in cattle 191. and pigs, ii. 198; variability of highly- NWLITIIIC peuiod, domestication of selected races, ii. 225. Bos longifrons and yrimiyenius in NATO, P., on the Bizzarria orange, i. the, i. 84; cattle of the, distinct 417. from the original species, i. 90; do- NATURALselection, its general princi- mestic goat in the, i. 105 ; cereals of ples, i. 2-14. the, i. 334. NATURE, sense in which the term is NERVE,optic, atrophy of the, ii. 287. employed, i. 6. NEURERT, potato-grafting, i. 432. NAUDIN,supposed rules of transmission NEUMIEISTER,on the Dutch and German in crossing plants, ii. 43; on the pouter pigeons, i. 143 ; on the Jaco- nature of hybrids, ii. 23, 24; essences bin pigeon, i. 162; duplication of of the species in hybrids, ii. 382, the middle flight feather in pigeons, 395 ; reversion of hybrids, ii. 9, 23, i. 167; on a peculiarly coloured 24; reversion in flowers by stripes breed of pigeons, ‘‘ Staarhalsige and blotches, ii. 11 ; hybrids of Lin- Taube,” i. 169; fertility of hybrid aria vulguris and purpurea, ii. 72; pigeons, i. 201; mongrels of the pelorism in Lincria, ii. 32, 38; trumpeter pigeon, ii. 42; period of crossing of peloric Linariu with the perfect plumage ia pigeons, ii. 53 ; normal form, ii. 46; variability in advantage of crossing pigeons, ii. 106. Duluru, ii. 254; hybrids of Dutura NEURALGIA,hereditary, ii. 55, lmis and strumonium, i. 425; pre- NEW ZEALANL),feral cats of, i. 49; potency of transmission of Datura cultivated plants of, i. 328. stramoniurn when crossed, ii. 43 j on NEWFOUNDLAND dog, modification o€, the polien of Mir.ibilis and of hybrids, in England, i. 44. i. 415 ; fertilisation of Mtrubilisi, ii. NEWWAN,E., sterility of Sphingidre 356 ; cultivated Cucurbitacez, i. 380, under certain conditions, ii. 141, 384, ii. 86 ; rudimentary tendrils in YEWWRT, G., non-copulation of Va- gourds, ii. 306 ; dwarf Cucurbitce, ii. nessa! in confinement, ii. 141; fer- 324; relation between the size and tilisation of the ovule in batrachia, number of the fruit is Qwbita ii. 356. IEWT. INDEX. ORGASISATION. 47 1

NEWT,polydactylism in the, i. 548. NUN pigeon, i. 163 ; known to Alclro- NEWTON,A., absence of sexual distinc- vandi, i. 217. tions in the Columbids, i. 171; NUTXIIEG-TREE,ii. 223. production of a ‘‘ black-shouldered ” peahen among the ordinary kind, i. 0.41<, weeping,. i. 385, 461 ; ii. 228; YO6 ; on hybrid ducks, ii. 140. pyramidal, I. 385; Hesslan, i’Jid.; NOAMI,Lake, cattle of, i. 91. late-lcaved, i. 386 ; valueless as ‘‘ NIATA” cattle, i. 92-94 ; resemblance timber at the Cape of Good Hope, of, to Sivatherium, i. 93 ; prepotency ii. 264; changes in, dependent on of transmission of character by, ii. age, i. 413 ; galls of the, ii. 2i2. 41. OATS, wild, i. 330 ; in the Swiss lake- NICARD”rabbit, i. 111. dwellings, i. 337. SICHOLSON,Dr., on the cats of Antigua, OBERLIN,change of soil beneficial to i. 48; on the sheep of Antigua, i. the potato, ii. 128. 102. ODART,Count, varieties of the vine, i. Nicotiana, crossing of varieties and 353, ii, 267 ; bud-variation in the species of, ii. 87; prepotency of vine, i. 400. transmission of characters in species C?ikidlzlin, ii. 274. of, ii. 43; contabescence of female CEnotheru biennis, bud-variation in, i. organs in, ii. 150. 407. Nicotiina glutinosa, ii. 87. OGLE, Dr. J. W., inherited deficient NIEBUHR,on the heredity of mental phalanges, i. 458; resemblance of characteristics in some Roman fami- twins, ii. 239, 240. lies, ii. 40. OIL-GLAND, absence of, in fantail NIGHT-BLINDNESS,non-reversion to, ii. pigeons, i. 155, 168. 10. OLDFIELD,Mr., estimation of European NILSSON, Prof., on the barking of a dogs among the natives of Australia. young wolf, i. 28; parentage of ii.399. - European breeds of cattle, i. 84, 85; OLEANDER,stock affected by grirfting on Bos frontosus in Scania, i. 85. in the. i. 418. NIND, Mr., on the dinoo i. 41. OLLIER,Dr., insertion of the periosteum “N~sus formativus,’P ’ii. 283, 284, of s dog beneath the skin of a rabbit, 348. ii. 365. NITZSCH,on the absence of the oil- Oncidium, reproduction of, ii. 114-116, gland in certain Columbs, i. 155. 147. NON-INHERITANCE,causes of, i. 470- ONIONS, crossing of, ii. 68 ; white, 472. liable to the attacks of fungi and NONNAIN” pigeon, i. 161. disease, ii. 213, 330. NORDYANN,dogs of Awhasie, i. 25. Ophrys cpiferu, self-fertilisation of, ii. XORMANDY,pigs of, with appendages 69; formation of pollen by a petal under the jaw, i. 7% in, ii. 387. NORWAY,striped ponies of, i. 61. Opuntia Zeucotrichz, ii. 267. NOTTand Gliddon, on the origin of the ORANGE,i. 355-356; crossing of, ii. dog, i. 16 ; mastiff represented on an 68 ; with the lemon, i. 430, ii. 360 ; Assyrian tomb, i. 17 ; on Egyptian naturalisation of, in Italy, ii. 298; dogs, i. 18 ; on the Hare Indian dog, variation of, in North Italy, ii. 243 ; i. 23. peculiar variety of, ii. 325 ; bizzarria, hTotyfiu, ii. 116. i. 417 ; trifacial, i. 418. NOURISHYENT,excess of, a cause of ORCHIDS,reproduction of, i. 434, 435 ; varinbility, ii. 244. ii. 114-116. NUMBER,importance of, in selection, ORFORD,Lord, crossing greyhounds with ii. 221. the bulldog, i. 43. Numidt ptilorhynchq, the original of ORGANISMS,origin of, 1. 13. the Guinea-fowl, i. 310. ORGANISATION,advancement in, i. 8. 472 ORGASS. INDEX. PAMF’AS.

ORGANS, rudimentary and aborted, ii. Omalis, trimorphic species of, ii. 394. 306-309; multiplication of abnormal, Oxalis rosea, ii. 113. ii. 385. OXLEY, Mr., on the nutmeg-tree, ii ORIOLE, assumptions of hen-plnmape 223. hv a male in confinement. ii. 141. OYSTERS, differences in the shells of, ii. O&NEY Islands, pigs of, i. 74 ; pigeons 270. of., --i. 193.---- ORTHOPTERA,regeneration of hind legs PACA,sterility of the, in confinement, in the, ii. 284. ii. 135. Orthosia munda, ii. 141. PACIFICIslands, pigs of the, i. 73. ORTON, R., on the effects of cross- PADUA,earliest known flower-gardea breeding on the female, i. 436 ; on at, ii. 202. the Manx cat, ii. 41; on mongrels PADUANfowl of Aldrovandi, i. 259. from the silk-fowl, ii. 42 ; infertility Pmoniu moutun, ii. 189. of geese in Quito, ii. 145. PBONY-TREE, ancient cultivation of, in OSBORNE, Dr., inherited mottling of China, ii. 189. the iris, i. 454. PAGET, on the Hungarian sheepdog, i. OSPREY, preying on black fowls, ii. 24. 215. PAGET, Sir J., inheritance of cancer, i. OSTEN-SACKEN, Baron, on American 451 ; hereditary elongation of hairs oak-galls, ii. 272. in the eyebrow, i. 452 ; re-growth of OSTEOLOGICALcharacters of pigs, i. 69, extra digits, i. 459 ; circumcision, i. 70, 74, 77 : of rabbits, i. 120-134: of 467 ; period of inheritance of cancer, pigeons, i. 171-177 ; of ducks, i. 296- ii. 56; on Hydra, ii. 283; on the 298. healing of wounds, ii. 284 ; on the re- OSTRICH, diminished fertility of the, in paration of bones, &id.; growth ofhair captivity, ii. 140. near inflamed surfaces or fractures, OSTYAKS, selection of dogs by the, ii. ii. 285; on false membranes, ibid.; 191. compensatory development of the OTTER,ii. 134. kidney, ii. 290 ; bronzed skin in disease ;‘OTTER” sheep of Massachusetts, i. of supra-renal capsules, ii. 325 ;unity 104. of growth and gemmation, ii. 352 ; OUDE, feral humped cattle in, i. 83. independence of the elements of the OUISTITI, breed in Europe, ii. 135, body, ii. 365 ; affinity of the tissues OVARY, variation of, in Cucurbita mos- for special organic substances, ii. 374. chain, i. 382 ; development of, inde- PALLAS, on the influence of domestica- pendently of pollen, i. 433. tion upon the sterility of intercrossed Ovis montam, i. 103. species, i. 32, 86, 202, ii. 88; hypo- OVULESand buds, identity of nature of, thesis that variability is wholly due ii. 353. to crossing, i. 197, 398, ii. 237, 252; OWEN, Capt., on stiff-haired cats at on the origin of the dog, i. 16; raria- Mombas, i. 45. tion in dogs, i. 34; crossing of dog OWEN, Prof. R.,palaeontological evidence and jackal, i. 25 ; origin of domestic as to the origin of dogs, i. 15; on cats, i. 46 ; origin of Angora cat, i. the skull of the “ Niata” cattle, i. 47; on wild horses, i. 55, 63; on 93; on fossil remains of rabbits, i. Persian sheep, i. 98 ; on Siberian fat- 108; on the significance of the brain, tailed sheep, ii. 269; on Chinese i. 130; on metagenesis, ii. 362; sheep, ii. 306 ; on Crimean varieties theory of reproduction and partheno- of the vine, i. 353 ; on R grape with genesis, ii. 370. rudimentary seeds, ii. 306 ; on feral OWL, eagle, breeding in captjrity, ii. musk-ducks, ii. 20; sterility of Al- 137. pine plants in gardens, ii. 147 ; selrc- OWL pigeon, i. 156 ; African, figured i. tion of white-tailed yaks, ii. 190. 167 ; known in 1735, i. 218. ?AMPAS,feral cattle on the, i. 89. PANDANUS. INDEX. PEAS. 478 - Pandunus, ii. 243. PASTURE and climate, adaptation of E’ANGENESIS, hypothesis of, ii. 349- breeds of sheep to, i. 99, 100. 399. PATAGONIA, crania of pigs from, i. 81. Panicurn, seeds of, used as food, i 326 ; PATAGONIAN rabbit, i. 110. found in the Swiss lake-dwellings, i. PATERSON, R., on the Arrindy silk- 335. moth, ii. 296. PANSY‘, i. 391-393. PAUL, W., on the hyacinth, i. 394,395 ; PAPPUS,abortion of the, in Cmthamuy, varieties of pelnrgoniums, i. 403 ; ii. 307. weakness of transmission in holly- Parccdoiurus, sterility of species of, in hocks, ii. 42 ; improvement of pelar- captivity, ii. 134. goniums, ii. 201. PARAGUAY, Cats Of, i. 48 ; Cattle Of, i. Pavo crisfatus and muticus, hybrids of, i. 92 ; horses of, ii. 80 ; dogs of, ibid. ; 306. black-skinned domestic fowl of, i. Paco nigrkmnis, i. 305-307. 243. &‘PAVODOTTEN-TAUBE,” i. 148. PARALLELvariation, ii. 341-345. PEACH, i. 357-365 ; derived from the PARAMOS,woolly pigs of, i. 81. almond, i. 357; stones of, figured, PARASITES,liability to attacks of, de- 358; contrasted with almonds, i. pendent on colour, ii. 213. 359 ; double-flowering, i. 358, 359, PARIAHdog, with crooked legs, i. 17 ; 364; hybrids of, i. 360; persistency resembling the Indian wolf, i. 25. of races of, i5id. ; trees producing PARLBET,inheritance of handwriting, ii. Iiectarincs, ihid.; variation in, i. 363, 6. 364, ii. 243; bud-variation in, i. Paritium tricuspis, bud-variation, i. 398; pendulous, i. 461; variation 402. by selection in, ii. 203; peculiar PARKER,W. K., number of vertebrze in disease of the, ii. 213 ; glands on ihe fowls, i. 280. leaves of the, ii. 217 ; antiquity of PARKINSON,Mr., varieties of the hya- the, ii. 299; increased hardiness of cinth, i. 394. the, ibbid.; varieties of, adapted for PARKYNS,MANSFIELD, on Columba forcing, ii. 301 ; yellow-fleshed, guimn, i. 192. liable to certain diseases, ii. 330. PARMENTIER,differences in the nidifi- PICACH-ALMOND,i. 359. cation of pigeons, i. 189; on white PEAFOWL, origin of, i. 305; japanned pigeons, ii. 215. or black-shouldered, i. 305-307 ; PARROTS,general sterility of, in con- feral, in Jamaica, i. 199 ; compara- finement, ii. 138; alteration of plu- tive fertility of, in wild and tame mage of, ii. 269. states, ii. 91, 256 ; white, ii. 326. PARSNIP,reversion in, ii. 34 ; influence PEARS, i. 372 ; bud-variation in, i. 401 ; of selection on, ii. 185 ; experiments reversion in seedling, ii. 4 ; inferiority on, ii. 267; wild, enlargement of of, in Pliny’s time, ii. 200; winter roots of, by cultivation, i. 344. nelis, attacked by aphides, ii. 217 ; PARTHENOGENESIS,ii. 352, 356. soft-barked varieties of, attacked by PARTRIDGE,sterility of, in captivity, wood-boring beetles, ii. 317 ;origina- ii. 139. tion of good varieties of, in woods, PARTURITION,difficult, hereditary, i. ii. 242 ; Porelle, resistance of, to 452. frost, ii. 297. Parus major, ii. 216. PEAS, i. 345-349; origin of, i. 345 Pussijora, self-impotence in species of, varieties of, i. 345-349; found in Swiss ii. 118, 119; contabescence of fcniale lake-dwellings, i. 335,337, 345-349 ; organs in, ii. 150. fruit and seeds figured, i. 347; PuzIsiflora data, fertility of, when persistency of varieties, i. 348 ;inter- grafted, ii. 173. crossing of varieties, i. 349, 428, ii. PASTRANA,Julia, peculiarities in the 110 ; effect of crossing on the female hair and teeth of, ii. 321. organs in, i. 429 ; double-flowered, ii. 474 PECCARY. INDEX. X’HLOX. - 152; maturity of, accelerated by Perdix rubra, occasional fertility of, in selection, ii. 185 ; varieties of, pro- captivity, ii. 139. duced by selection, ii. 203; thii- PERIODof action of causes of variability, shelled, liable to the attacks of birds, ii. 257. ii. 2 16 ; reversion of, by the terminal PEEXOSTEUMof a dog, producing bone seed in the pod, ii. 339. in a rabbit. ii. 355. I’CCCARY, breeding of the, in captivity, PERIWINKLE;sterility of, in England, ii. 133. ii. 158. PEDIGREESof horses, cattle, greyhounds, PERSIA,estimation of pigeons in, i. 215 ; game-cocks, and pigs, i. 447. carrier pigeon of, i. 148; tumbIer PEGIU,cats of, i. 49 ; horses of, i. 56. pigeon of, i. 156; cats of, i. 47-49; PELARGONIUMS,multiple origin of, i. sheep of, i. 102. 388 ; zones of, i. 390 ; bud-variation PERSISTENCE of colour in horses, in, i. 402; variegation in, accom- i. 53; of generic peculiarities, i. panied by dwarfing, i. 409 ; pelorism 114. in, ii. 150, 337 ; by reversion, ii. 33 ; PERU, antiquity of maize in, i. 338; advantage of change of soil to, ii. 129 ; peciiliar potato from, i. 350; selectjon improvement of, by selection, ii. 201 ; of wild animals practised by the scorching of, ii. 214; numbers of, Incas of, ii. 191, 192. raised from seed, ii. 221 ; effects of I‘ PERUCKEN-TAUBE,”i. 161. conditions of life on, ii. 263 ; stove- PETALS, rudimentary, in cultivated variety of, ii. 301 ; correlation of plants, ii. 307 ; producing pollen, ii. contracted leaves and flowers in, ii. 387. 324, 325. T’ETUNIAS, multiple origin of, i. Pelaryonium fulyidum, conditions of 388. fertility in, ii. 147. PEYRITSCH,Dr., vegetable teratology, “ PELONES,”a Columbian breed of cattle, ii. 32. i. 92, 212. “ PFAUEN-TAUBE,”i. 153. PELORICflowers, tendency of, to nc- Plralmwpsis, pelorism in, ii. 338. quire the normal form, ii. 46; f‘er- PfIALANGES, deficiency of, ii. 49. tility or sterility of, ii. 150, 151. Phaps chalcoptera, ii. 342. PELoRfC riices of Gloxiiaia speciosa and Phasedus multij8orq ii, 300, 314, Antirrhiriuin mcljus, i. 389. Pbtseolus vulgaris, i. 350, ii. 300. PELORISM,ii. 32-34, 337, 338. Phasinnus pactus, i. 289. PELVIS,characters of. in rabbits, i. 128 ; Phasicinus aderstiz, i. 289. in pigeons, i. 176 ; in fowls, i. 281 ; PHEASANT, assumption of male plumage in ducks, i. 298. by the hen, ii. 26 ; wildness of hybrids PEMBROKEcattle, i. 84. of, with the common fowl, ii. 19; PENDULOUStrees, i. 385, ii. 340 ; un- prepotency of the, over the fowl, ii. certainty of transmission of, i. 461, 43; diminished fecundity of the, in 462. captivity, ii. 139. PENGUINducks, i, 294, 296 ; hybrid of PHEASANTS,golden and Lady Amherst’s, the, with the Egyptian goose, i. i. 289. 296. PHEASANT-FOWLS,i.256. PENNANT,production df wolf-like curs PHILIPEAUX,regeneration of limbs in at k’ochabers, i. 39 ; on the Duke of the salamander, ii. 359. Qrieensberry’s wild cattle, i. 88. PHILIPPAR,on the varieties of wheat, i. Penheturn, seeds of, used as food in 332. the Punjab, i. 326. PHILIPPINE Islands, named breeds of Penniseturn distichurn, seeds of, used as game fowl in the, i. 243. food in Central Africa, i. 326. PHILLIPS, Mr., on bud-variation in the PEECIVAL,Mr., on inheritance in horses, potato, i. 411. i 455; on horn-like processes in Phlox, bud-variation by suckers in, i. horses, i. 52. 410. F’ETRISIS. INDEX. PlGS. 4‘75

PHTHISIS,affection of the fingers in, ii. unity of origin of, i. 197-214; feral, 326. in various places, i. 199, ii. 7 ; unity PIIYLIDXERA, i. 354. of coloration in, i. 204-206 ; reversion PIcKERINCt, Dr., on the grunting voice of mongrel, to coloration of C. liuia, of humped cattle, i. 83 ; occurrence i. 207-214; history of the cultivation of the head of a fowl in an ancient of, i. 215-217 ; history of the princi- Egyptian procession, i. 258 ; seeding pal races of, i. 217-222; mode o’f of ordiuarily seedless fruits, ii. 152 1 production of race% of, i. 222-235; extinction of ancient Egyptian breeds reversion in, ii. 22; by age, ii. 14; of sheep and oxen, ii. 421; on an produced by crossing in, if. 14, 22; ancient Peruvian gourd, ii. 425. prepotency of transmission of cha- PICOTEES,effect of conditions of life on, racters in breeds of, ii. 41, 42; sexual ii. 262. differences in some varieties of, ii. 50 ; PICTET, A., oriental names of the pigeon, period of perfect plumage in, ii. 53 ; i. 21.5. efect of segregation on, ii. 63 ; pra- PI&ET, Prof., origin of the dog, i. 15 j ferent pairing of, within the same on fossil oxen, i. 85. breed, ii. 81 ;fertility of, increased by PIEBALDS,probably due to reversion, ii. domestication, ii. 90, 138; effects of 11. inter-breeding and necessity of cross- PII~TREJIENT, M., on the ribs of horses, ing, ii. 106 ; indifference of, to change i. 52. of climate. ii. 144 ; selection of, ii. PIGEAUX,hybrids of the hare and 79, 183, 188; among the Romans, rabbit, ii. 135. ii. 187 ; unconscious selection of, ii. PIQEONA cravate, i. 156. 195, 198 ; facility of selection of, ii. PIGEONbagadais, i. 149, 150. 220; white, liable to the aftacks of PIGEONcoquille, i. 163. hawks, ii. 215; effects of disuse PIGEONcygne, i. 150. of parts in, ii. 288; fed upon meat, PIGEONheurte’, i. 163. ii. 294 ; effect of first male upon the PIGEONpattu plongeur, i. 164. subseqcent progeny of the female, PIGEONpolonais, i. 151. i. 437 ; homology of the leg and wing PIGEONromain, i. 149. 150. feathers in, ii. 315; union of twa EON tambour, i. 162. outer toes in feather-legged, ibid. ; PIGEONturc, i. 146. correlation of beak, limbs, tongue, f’IGEONS, originof, i. 137,140,189-214 ; and nostrils, ii. 316 ; analogous classified table of breeds of, i. 142 ; variation in, ii. 341, 342 j permanence pouter, i. 143-145; carrier, i. 146- of breeds of, ii. 425. 149; runt, i. 149-151 ; barbs, i. PIGS, of Swiss lake-dwellings, i. 71 ; 151-153 ; fantail, i. 153-15.5 ; torbit types of, derived from S‘us scrofu and and owl, i. 156 ;tumbler, i. 156-161 ; Sus iditus, i. 68-70 ; Japanese (Sus Indian frill-back, i. 161 ; Jacobin, pZiciceps, Gray), figured, i. 72; of ibid.; trumpeter, i. 162; other breeds Pacific Islands, i. 73, ii. 64 ;modifica- of, i. 163-165 ; differences of, equal tions of skull in, i. 72-75 ; length of to generic, i. 166; individual varia- intestines in, i. 77, ii. 293 ; period of tions of, i. 167-169 ; variability of gestation of, i. 77 ; number of verte- peculiarities characteristic of breeds brae and ribs in, ibid.; anomalous in, i. 169; sexual vayiability in, i. forms, i. 78, 79; development of 170, 171; osteology of, i. 171-177; tusks and bristles in, i. 79; striped correlation of growth in i. 177-180, young of, i. 80; reversion of feral, ii. 313; young of some varieties to wild type, i. 80, 81, ii. 7, 22; naked when hatched, i. 179, ii. 326 ; production and changes of breeds effects of disuse in, i. 180-187 ; set- of, by inter-crossing, i. 82 ; effects tling and roosting in trees, i. 190; produced by the first male upon Abating in the Nile to drink, ibid.; the subsequent progeny of the dovecot, i. 194, 195; arguments for female, i. 436 ; pedigrees of, i. 447 ; 47G PIMENTA. IYDEX. POIS.

polydactylism in, i. 459 ; cross-re of, ii. 76, 107; comparative fer- version in, ii. 8; hybrid, wildnesr tility of wild and cultivated, ii. 91; of, ii. 19; disappearance of tusk: self-impotent, ii. 112-122 ; dimor- in male under domestication, ii phic and trimorphie, ibid. j sterility 50 ; solid-hoofed, i;. 424 ; crosses of of, from changed conditions, ii. 146- ii. 70, 73; mutual fertility of all 149 ; from contabescence of anthers, varieties of, ii. 89 ; increased fertility ii. 149, 150; from monstrosities, ii. by domestication, ii. 90 ; ill effects 01 150, 151; from doubling of the close interbreeding in, ii. 100, 101 ; flowers, ii. 151, 152; from seedless influence of selection on, ii. 182 j fruit, ii. 152 ; from excessive de- prejudice against certain colonrs in, velopment of vegetative organs, ii. ii. 194, 214, 330 ; uncanscious selec- 152-155 ; influence of selection on, tion of, ii. 199 ; black Virginian, ii. ii. 183-185; variation by selection, 212, 330; similarity of the best in useful parts of, ii. 202-204; breeds of, ii. 227 ; change of form in, variability of, ii. 223 ; variability of, ii. 269 ; effects of disuse of parts in, induced by crossing, ii. 252 ; direct ii. 289 ; ears of, ii. 291 ; correlations action of change of climate on, ii. in, ii. 320; white buck-wheat in- 266 ; change of period of vegetation jurious to, ii. 331; tail of, grafted in, ii. 295 ; varieties of, suitable to upon the back, ii. 365 ; extinction of different climates, ii. 296; correlated the older races of, ii. 421. variability of, ii. 353325 ; antiquity PIMENTA,ii. 68. of races of, ii. 425. PIMPERNE~ii. 173. PLASTICITY, inheritance of, ii. 227. PINE-APPLE,sterility and variability PLATEAU,F., on the vision of amphi of the, ii. 256. bious animals, ii. 208. PINK, Chinese, 314. Platessa Jesus, ii. 28. PINKS, bud-variation in, i. 406 ; im- PLATO, notice of selection in breeding provement of, ii. 201. dogs by, ii. 186. Pinus pumilio, mughus, and nun?, varie- PLICApolonica, ii. 265. ties of P. sylvestris, i. 387. PLINY, on the crossing of shepherd Pinus syhestris, i. 386, ii. 300; dogs with the wolf, i. 24; on Pyr- hybrids of, with P. ni,ricrns, ii. rhus’ breed of cattle, ii. 186 ; on the 111. estimation of pigeons among the PIORRY,on hereditary disease, i. 451, Romans, i. 215; pears described by, ii. 54. ii. 200. Pistacia lenti,cus, ii. 261. PLUM,i. 366-368; stones fianred, i. Pktacia vera, i. 431. 366 ; varieties of the, i. 367,a368; ii. Prsrrq rudimentary, in cultivated 204; hud-variation in the, i. 399; plants, ii. 307. peculiar disease of the, ii. 213; PISTOR, sterility of some mongrel flower-buds of, destroyed by bull- pigeons, i. 202 ; fertility of pigeons, finches, ii. 217 ;purple-fruited, liable ii. 91. to certain diseases, ii. 330. Pisum arvense and sativum, i. 345. PLUMAGE,inherited peculiarities of, in PITYRIMISversicolor, inheritance of, pigeons, i. 169, 170; sexual pecu- ii. 55. liarities of, in fowls, i. 263-268. PLANCHON,G., on a fossil vine, i. 352 ; PLURALITYof races, Pouchet’s views sterility of Jzrssimx grandijora in on, i. 2. France, ii. 154. Poa, seeds of, used as food, i. 326; PLANE-TREE,variety of the, i. 386. species of, propagated by bulblets, ii. PLANTIGRADEcarnivora, general ste- 154. rility of the, in captivity, ii. 134. POUOLIANcattle, i. 84. Y~Ts,progress of cultivation of, i. POINTERS, modification of, i. 44; 322, 329; cultivated, their geogra- crosscd with the foxhound, ii. 73. phi4 derivation, i. 328; crossing POIS sans parchemin, ii. 216. POITFAV. INDEX. PCOCYON. 477

POITEAU,origin of Cytisus adami, i. POUTERpigeons, i. 143-145 ; furculum 416 ; origin of cultivated varieties of figured, i. 176 ; history of, i. 217. fruit-trees, ii. 247. POWIS,Lord, experiments in crossing POLISHfowl, i. 239,262, 266, 269, 270, humped and English cattle, i. 86, ii. 275 ; skull figured. i. 275 ; section of 19. skul! figured,. i. 277 ; development of POYNTER,Mr., on a gratt-hybrid rose, protuberance of skull, i. 268; fur- i. 419. culum figured, i. 281. PRAIRIEwolf, i. 22. POLISH,or Himalayan rabbit, i. 112. PRECOCITYof highlj-improved breeds, POLLEN,ii. 356, 357; action of, ii. ii. 313. 86; injurious action of, in some PREPOTENCYof pollen, ii. 171. orchids, ii. 115, 116; resistance of, PRI.:POTEHCYof transmission of charac- to injurious treatment, ii. 148 ; pre- ter, ii. 40, 158; in the Austrian potency of, ii. 171. emperors and some Roman families, POLLOCK,Sir F., transmission of rarie- ii. 40 ; in cattle, ii. 40, 41 ; in sheep, gated leaves in BuUotu niyru, i. 409 ;on ii. 41 ; in cats, ibid. ;in pigeons, ii. 41, local tendency to rariegation, ii. 263. 42 ; in fowls, ii. 42 ; inplants,ihid. ;in POLYANTHUS,i. 464. a variety of the pumpkin, i. 380; POLYDACTYLISM,inheritance of, i. 457- in the jackal over the dog, ii.43; in 459 ; significance of, i. 460. the ass over the horst, ibid. ; in the PONIES,most freqnent on islands and pheasant over the foal, ibid. ;in the mountains, I. 54; Javanese, i. 56. penguin duck over the Egyptian POOLE,Col.,.on striped Indian horses, i. goose, ii. 44; discussion of the phe- 61, 62; on the young of Asinus in- nomena of, ii. 44-47. dicus, ii. 17. PRESCOTT,Mr., on the earliest known POPLAR,Lombardy, i. 383. European flower-garden, ii. 202. POPPIG, on Cuban wild dogs, i. 28. PRESSURE,mechanical, a cause of POPPY,found in the Swiss lake-dwell- modification, ii. 336, 337. ings, i. 335, 337 ; with the stamens PREVOSTand Dumas, on the employ- converted into pistils, i. 389 ; differ- ment of several spermatozoids to fer- ences of the, in direrent parts of tilise one ovule, ii. 356. India, ii. 149;monstrous,fertilityof,ii. PREYER,Prof., on the effect of circum- 150; black-seeded, antiquity of, ii. 425. cision, i. 467. PORCUPINE,breeding of, in captivity, PRICE,Mr., variations in the structure ii. 135. of the feet in horses, i. 52. PORCUPINEfamily, i. 448, ii. 58. PRICHARD,Dr., on polydactylism in the Porphyric, breeding of a species of, in negro, i. 458 ; on the Lambert family, captivity, ii. 140. ii. 53 ; on an albino negro, ii. 214 ; PORTAL,on a peculiar hereditary affec- on Plica polonica, ii. 266. tion of the eye, i. 4.54. PRIMROSE,i. 464; double, rendered PORTOSanto, feral rabbits of, i. 117. single by trausplantation, ii. 151. Portulaca olerma, ii. 275. Primula, inter-crossing of species of, i. Potamocha?ruspenicillntus, ii. 133. 356 ; contabescence in, ii. 150 ; ‘hose POTATO,i. 3.50, 351 j bud-variation by in hose,’ i. 389; with coloured tubers in the, i. 410, 411; graft- calyces, sterility of, ii. 149. hybrid of, by union of half-tubers, i. Priniula sinensis, varis tions, i. 394 ; ii. 420 ; individual self-impotence in the, 324 ; reciprocally dimorphic, ii. 113. ii. 118; sterility of, ii. 153; advan- Primula veris, i. 464, ii. 87. tage of change of soil to the, ii. 128. Primula m!guris, i. 464, ii. 87. POTATO, sweet, sterility of the, in PRINCE,Mr., on the inter-crossing of China, ii. 153; varieties of the, strawberries, i. 374. suited to different climates. ii. 299. >RINGBIIEIM,on conjugation, ii. 352. POUCEET,M., his views on plurality of Proc!/on, sterility of, in Captivity, ii. races, i. 2. 134. 478 PROLIFICNESS. INDEX. RAFFLES.

PROLINCNESS,increased by domestica- his '' tourbillon vital," ii. 35 ; on the tion, ii. 158. independent existence of the sexual PROTOZOA,reproduction of the, ii. 371. elements, ii. 352. Prunus armeniaca, i. 365, 366. Quercus cerris, i. 386. Prunus aviurn, i. 368. Quercus robur and pedunculata, hybrids Prunus cerasus, i, 368, 399. of, ii. 111. Prunus domestics, i. 366. QUINCE, pears grafted on the, ii. 246. Prunus insititia, i. 366-368. Prunus spinosa, i. 366. RABBITS, domestic, their origin, i. 107- PRUSSIA,wild horses in, i. 63. 109 ; of Mount Sinai and Algeria, i. Psittacus erithacus, ii. 138. 109; breeds of, i. 109-116; Hima- Psittacus ~OLC,ii. 138. layan, Chinese, Polish, or Russian, i. Psophia, general sterility of, in cap- 112-115, ii. 75; feral, i. 116-120; tivity, ii. 140. of Jamaica, i. 116 ; of the Falkland PTARMIGANfowls, i. 240. Islands, i!rid.; of Porto Santo, i. Pulex penetrans, ii. 265. 117-120, ii. 81, 269 ; osteologiral PUMPKINS, i. 380. characters of, i. 120-134; discussion PKJNOponies of the Cordillera, i. 54. of modifications in, i. 135-140 ; one- PUSEY, Mr., value of cross-bred sheep, ii. eared, transmission of peculiarity of, 99 ; preference of hares and rabbits i. 456 ; reversion in feral, ii. 6 ; in for common rye, ii. 218. the Himalayan, ii. 15; crossing of PUTWHEand Vertuch, varieties of the white and coloured Angora, ii, 70; potato, i. 350. comparative fertility of wild and PUVIS, effects of foreign pollen on tame, ii. 90 ; falsified experiments in apples, i. 432 ; supposed non-varia- interbreeding of, ii. 100 ; highbred, bility of monotypic genera, ii. 253. often bad breeders, ibid. ; selection Pyrrhula vulgaris, ii. 217 ; assumption of, ii. 188 ; white, liable to destruc- of the hen-plumage by the male, in tion, ii. 215; effects of disuse of confinement: ii. 141. parts in, ii. 288; skull of, affected PYRRHUS.his breed of cattle, ii. 186. by drooping ears, ii. 291 ; length of Pyrus, fastigate Chinese species of, ii. intestines in, ii. 293 ; correlation of 266. ears and skull in, ii. 316, 317 ;varia- Pyrus acerba, i. 369. tions in skull of, ii. 343 ; periosteum Pyms amparia, ii. 216. of a dog producing bone in, ii. Pyrus communis, i. 372, 401. 365. Pymmulus, i. 369,401. RACE-HORSE,origin of, i. 56. Pymparaclisiaca, i. 369. RACES, modification and formation of, Pyrus prmox, i. 370. by crossing, ii. 73-77 ; natural and artificial, ii. 232 ; Pouchet's views on QC'AGGA, previous impregnation by, i. plurality of, i. 2 ; of pigeons, i. 217- 435. 222. QUATREFAGES,A. DE, on the burrowing RAUCLYFFE, W. F., effect of climate of a bitch to litter, i. 28; selection and soil on strawberries, i. 376 ; con- in the silkworm, i. 317 ; development stitutional differences in roses, i. of the wings in the silkmoth, i. 320, 391. ii. 288 ; on varieties of the mulberry, RADISHES, i. 845; crossing of, ii. 68; i. 354; special raising of eggs of the varieties of, ii. 202. silk-moth, ii. 181 ; on disease of the RADLKOFER, retrogressive metamor- silkworm, ii. 213; on monstrosities phosis in mosses and algae, ii. 354. in insects, ii. 257,385; on a change in RAFARIN, M., bud-variation and rerer- the breeding season of the Egyptian sion, i. 403. goose, ii. 294; fertilisation of the RAFFLES, Sir STAMFORD,on the Crossing Teredo, ii. 356; tendency to simi- of Javanese cattle with Ba9 sondaicus, larity in the best races, ii. 227 ; on ii. 191. EAM. INDEX. BEVEDSION. 479

RAM, goat-like, from the Cape of Good guay, ii. 63; feral pigs of Buenos Hope, ii. 41. Ayres, i. 80; on the refusal of wild RAMU, M., on appendages to throat of animals to breed in captivity, ii. 132 ; goat, i. 106. on Dicikyks lubiatus, ii. 133 ; sterility RANCHLN,heredity of diseases. i. 451. of plantigrade carnivora in captivity, RANGE of galliiiaceous birds on the ii. 134; on Cavta apercu, i6id.; Himalaya, i. 249. st?rility of Cebus azara in captivity, RANKE, on the effects of use and disuse ii. 136 ; abortions produced by wild of organs, ii. 285. animals in captivity, ii. 142. Ranunculus ficaria, ii. 154. REPRODUCTION, sexual and asexual, Ranunculus repens, ii. 152. contrasted, ii. 351 ; unity of forins RAPE, i. 344. of, ii. 378; autagoniain of, to growth, Raphunus caudatus, i. 345. ii. 379. Kaphanus raphimistrum, i. 345. Beseda odorata, self-sterility of, ii. llS, RapimnuJ satiuus, ii. 335. 223. RASPBERRY,yellow-fruited, ii. 216. RETINITIS, pigmentary, in deaf-mutes, RATTLESNAKE,experiments with poison ii. 322. of the, ii. 279. REUTER, Herr, potato-grafting, i. RAVEN, stomach of, affected ky vege- 422. table diet, ii. 292. REVERSION, ii. 1, 2,368,369,390,393- RAWSOX,A., self-impotence in hybrids 399; in pigeons, ii. 2; in cattle, ii. of Gladiolus, ii. 121, 122. 3; in sheep, ikd.; in fowls, ii. 4; in RS, COMTE, on the assumption of a the heartsease, &id. ; in vegetables, yellowcolour by all varieties of maize, ibid. ; in feral animals and plants, ii. i. 339. 5-7; to characters derived from a R~AUXUR,effect of confinemcnt upon previous cross in man, dogs, pigeons, the cock, ii. 27 ; fertility of fow4s in pigs, and fowls, ii. 7-9; in hyi.rids, most climates, ii. 144. ii. 9; by bud-propagation in plants, REED, Mr., atrophy of the limbs of ii. 10-13; by age in fowls, cattle, rabbits, consequent on the dcstruc- &c., ii. 12, 13 ; partial, from an in- tion of their nerves, ii. 287. jury, ii. 12; caused by crossing, ii. R~GENERATIOXof amputated parts in 13-25 ; explained by latent charac- man, i. 459 ; in the human embryo, tors, ii. 25-31 ; producing monstro- ii. 357; in the lower vertebrata, sities, ii. 31; producing peloric insects, and myriapoda, ii. 358. flowers, ii. 32-34; of feral pigs to RE-GROWTH of amputated joints, ii. the wild type, i. 81,82 ; of supposed 357. feral rabbits to the wild type, i. 108, REGNIER, early cultivation of the cab- 116, 118; of pigeons, in coloration, bage by the Celts, i. 342 ; selection when crossed, i. 206-213; in fowls, practised by tht: Celts, ii. 187. i. 251-258; in the silkworm, i. 318; REINDEER, individuals recognised by in the pansy, i. 393; in B pelargo- the Lapiandcrs, ii. 238. nium, i. 403; in Chrysanthemums, REISSEK,experiments in crossing Cdtisus i. 404; of varieties of the China rose picrpureus and laburnum, i. 416 ; mo- in St. Domingo, i. 406 ; by buds in dification of a Zresium by LYcidiwi, pinks and carnations, i. 407 ; of la- ii. 274. ciniated varieties of trees to the RELATIONS, characters of, reproduced normal form, i. 408; in variegated in children, ii. 7. leaves of plants, i. 409; in tulips, i. RENQGER, occurrence of jaguars with 412; of suckers of the seedless bar- crooked legs in Pcraguay, i. 17; berry to the common form, i. 410 ; naked dogs of Paraguay, i. 24, 32, ii. by buds in hybrids of Tropolum, i. 70,80 ; feral dogs of La Plata, i. 28; 425 ; in plants, i. 442 ; of crossed on the aguara, i. 27; cats of Para- peloric snapdragons, ii. 46 ;analogolts guay, i. 48, ii. 63, 133; dogs of Para- variations due to, ii. 340-344. 480 RHINOCEBGS. INDEX. ROSA. -- RHINOCEROS, breeding in captivity i, plum attacked by bullfinches, ii' India, ii. 132. ZL7 ; seedling apples with surface- Rhododendron, hybrid, ii. 253. roots, i. 371 ; variety of the apple Rhododmdron ciliritum, ii. 267. found in a wood, ii. 247; on roses, Rhododendron dalhousice, effect of pol i. 390,391 ; bud-variation in roses, len of R. nuttallii upon, i. 431. i. 404406 ; production of Provence Ribs grossdaria, i. 376-378, 400. roses from seeds of the moss-rose, i. Ribes rubrum, i. 400. 405 ; effect produced by grafting on RIBS, number and characters of, il the stock in jessamine, i. 418; in the fowls, i. 280 ;characters of, in ducks ash, ibid. ; on grafted hazels, i. 419; i. 297,298. hybridisation of a weeping thorn, i. RICE, imperial, of China, ii. 189 ; In 461 ; esperiments with the seed of dian varieties of, ii. 243 ; variety of the weeping elm and ash, i. 462; not requiring water, ii. 295. variety of the cherry with curled RICHARDSON, H. D., on jaw-appendage petals, ii. 218. in Irish pigs, i. 79; management 0' XIVI~RI~:, reproduction of OmLfiztrn cn- pigs in China, i. 71 ; occurrence oi cendislri mum, ii. 114. striped young in Westphalinn pigs, i. IOIIERTS,Mr., on inheritance in the 80; on crossing pigs, ii. 73; on in. horse, i. 454. terbreeding pigs, ii. 102 ;on selection ~OIWRTWX, Mr., on glandulardeaved in pigs, ii. 178. peaches, i. 364. RICHARDSON, Sir John, observations on :OI:INET, on the silkworm, i. 317-321, the resemblance between North Arne. ii. 181. rican dogs and wolves, i. 21,22; on 'iobinia, ii. 264. the burrowing of wolves, i. 28; on loma, Nr.? deficiencies of half-bred the broad feet of dogs, wolves, and horses, i. 435. foxes in North America, i. 42; on :OBSOS, Mr., on the advantage of North American horses scraping away change of soil to plants, ii. 128, 129; the snow, i. 55. on the growth of the verbena, ii. Ricinw, annual in England, ii. 295. 263 ; on broimli, ii. 301. RIEDEL, Dr., on the '' Bagadotte " :OCK pigeon, m&surenients of the, i. pigeon, i. 148; on the Jacobin pi- 140; figured, i. 141. geon, i. 162; fertility of hybrid ~DENTS,sterility of, in cnytivity, ii. pigeons, i. 201 ; circumcision, i. 467. 134. RILEY,on Phylloxera, i. 354. ?odr(q/tezkt,ii. 11 5, 116. RINDERPESI, ii. 373. :ODWELL, J., poisoning of horses by RIST~UI, Mr., potato - grafting, i. mildewed tares, ii. 331. 421. :OHILCUND, feral humped cattle in, i. Rrm, on varieties of the orange, i. 355, 83. ii. 298, 324. :OLLE. F., on the history of the peach, RIVERS, Lord, on the selection of grey- ii. 299. hounds, ii. 221. LOLLER-PIGEONS, Dutch, i. 158. RIVERS, Mi-.,persistency of characters :OLLESTON, Prof., inherited effects of in seedling potatoes, i. 351 ; on the injnries, i. 469; incisor teeth af- peach, i. 357, 359; persistency of fected in form in cases of pulmonary races in the peach and nectarine, i. tubercle, ii. 325. 360, 361 ; connection between the LOMANES, on sternum of the fowl, i, peach and'the nectarine, i. 361; per- 288; rudimentary organs, ii. 309; sistency of character in seedling ROMANS, estimation of pigeons by, i. apricots, i. 366; origin of the plum, 215; breeds of fowls possessed by, i. ibid.; seedling varieties of the 243, 258. plum, i. 367 ; persistency of cha- RCWKS, pied, ii. 53. racter in seedling plums, i. 368; Rosa, cultivated species of, i. 390. bud-variation in the plum, i. 399; Rosa devoniensis, graft-hybrid produced H08A. INDEX. SALAMANDER. 481

hy, 03 the white Banksian rose, i. domesticated horses, i. 53 ; pigs of the 419. Swiss lake-dwellings, i. 68, 71 ; on Rosa indka and ccntifolin, fertile hybrids humped cattle, i. 83; parentage of of, i. 390. European breeds of cattle, i. 84, ii. Rosa spinosissima, history of the culture 423 ; on “ Niata ” cattle, i. 93 ; sheep of, i. 391. of the Swiss lake-dwellings, i, 97, ii. ROSELLINI,on Egyptian dogs, i. 17. 423 ;.goats of the Swiss lake-dweil- Roses, i. 390, 391; origin of, i. 388; ings, 1. 105 ; absence of fowls ia the bud-variation in, i. 404406 ; Scotch, Swiss Ialie4wellings, i. 258; on doubled by selection, ii. 185; con- crossing cattle, ii. 76 ; differences in tinuous variation of, ii. 228 ; effect the bones of wild and domesticated of seasonal conditions on, ii. 263; animals, ii. 268 ; decrease in size of noisette, ii. 299 ; galls of, ii. 274. wild European animala, ii, 427. ROSS,Dr., on Pangenesis, ii. 350, 377. EYE, wild, lk Candolle’s observations ROUENNAIS,rabbit, i. 109. on, i. 330 ; found in the Swiss lake- ROUJOU, polydactylism, and arrested dwellings, i. 337 ; common, preferred development, i. 458. by hares and rabbits, ii. 218; less ROULIN, on the dogs of Juan Fernandez, variable than other cultivated plants, i. 27 ; on South American cats, i. 48; ii. 241. striped young pigs, I. 80 ; feral pigs in South America, i. 81, ii. 7; on SABINE,Mr., on the cultivation of Rosa Columbian cattle, i. 92, ii. 189, 212 ; spinosissima, i. 391 ; on the cultira- effects of heat on the hides of cattle tion of the dahlia, i. 393,394, ii. 249 ; in South America, i. 95; fleece of effect of foreign pollen on the seed- sheep in the hot valleys of the Cor- vessel in Amaryllis vittatu, i. 431. dilleras, i. 102 ; diminished fertility ST. ANGE, influence of the pelvis on the of these sheep, ii. 145; on black- shape of the kidneys in birds, ii. 336. boned South American fowls, i. 271 ; ST. b>11NGo, wild dogs of, i. 28 ; bud- variationof the guinea-fowl in tropical variation of dahlias in, i. 411. Qmerica, i. 310; frequency of striped ST. HILAIRE,ALJG., milk furnished by legs in mules, ii. 16; geese in Bogota, cows in South America, ii. 290; ii. 145 ; sterility of fowls introduced husked form of maize, i. 339. into Bolivia, ii. 145. ST. JOHN, c., feral cats in Scotland, i. ROY, M., on a variety of Magnolia gran- 49 ; taming of wild ducks, i. 292. diflora, ii. 299. ST. VAL~RYapple, singular structure ROYLE,Dr., Indian varieties of the mul- of the, i. 372, artificial fecundation berry, i. 354 ; on Agaw viv@ara, ii. of the, i. 432. 153; variety of rice not requiring ST. VSTUs’ Danre, period of appearance irrigation, ii. 295 ; sheep from the of, ii. 54. Cape in India, ii. 296. SACHS,Prof., flow of sap, ii. 286. &bus, pollen of, ii. 256. SAOERET,origin and varieties of the RUDIMENTARYorgans,i. 12, ii. 306-31 0. cherry, i. 368, 369 ; origin of varieties RUFZ DE LAVISON,extinction of breeds of the apple, i. 3i2; incapacity of of dogs in France, ii. 421. the cucumher for crossing with other RUMINANTS,general fertility of, in cap- species, i. 383 ; varieties of the melon, tivity, ii. 183. d’Jid. ;supposed twin-mongrel melon, RUYPLESS fowls, i. 241. i. 427; crossing melons, ii. 86, 109; on RUNTS, i. 149-151 ; history of, i. 220 j gourds, ii. 86 ; effects ofselection ia en- lower jaws and skull figured, i. 173. larging fruit, ii. 203; onthe tendency RUSSELL, Lord A., spiegelcarpe, ii. 222. to depart, from type, ii. 228 ; variation RUSSIAN or Himalayan rabbit, i. 112. of plants in particular soik, ii. 267. R~TIMEYER,Prof., dogs of the Neolithic SALAMANDER,experiments on the, ii. period, i. 19; horses of Swiss lake- 283, 357, 385; regeneration of lost dwellings, i. 51 ; diversity of early parts in the, ii. 357-359. $82 SALAM A XD ii A. 1NDEY. SCOTT.

Salanv-ndra cristata, polydactylism in, which utters the sound “Yahu,” i. i. 548. 163. SALISBURY, Mr., on t.he production of SCANDEROONS(pigeons), i. 149, 150. nectarines by peach-trees, i. 361 ; on SCANIA,remains of Bos frontosus found the dnhlia, i. 393, 394. in, i. 85. Salix, intercrossing of species of, i. 356. SCAPULA,characters of, in rabbits, i. Sdix humilis, galls of, ii. 272, 273. 129 ; in fowls, i. 282 ; in pigeons, i. SALL~,feral guinea-fowl in St. Domingo, 177; alteration of, by disuse, in i. 310. pigeons, i. 184. SALMON,early breeding of male, ii. 379. SCARLETfever, ii. 272. SALTER,Mr., on bud-variation in pelar- SCIIAAFFHAUSENon the horses repre- gouiums, i. 403; in the Chrysan- sented in Greek statues, ii. 193. themum, i. 404 ; transmission of SCHLEIDEN,excess of nourishment P variegated leaves by seed, i. 409; cause of variability, ii. 244. bud-variation by suckers in Phlox, i. SCHMERLING,Dr., varieties of the dog 410 ; application of selection to bud- found in a cave, i. 19. varieties of plants, i. 443; accumu- SCHOXBURGX,Sir R., on the dogs of lative effect of changed conditions of Indians of Guiana, i. 20, 23, ii. 191 ; life, ii. 249 ; on the variegation of on the musk duck, i. 191; bud- strawberry leaves, ii. 264 ; on pollen variation in the banana, i. 401 ; within ovules, ii. 387. reversion of varieties of the China SALTER,S. J., hybrids of Gallus son- rose in St. Domingo, i. 406 ; sterility neratii and the common fowl, i. 246, of tame parrots in Guiana, ii. 138; ii. 19 ; crossing of races or species of on Dendi-ocygna viduata, ii. 140; rats, ii. 65. selection of fowls in Guiana, ii. 194. SALVIN,habits of the jackal, i. 25; SCKREIBERS,on Proteus, ii. 287. mutilation inherited in mot-mot, i. SCHUTZEon the Torfschwein, i. 71. 47 0. Scizlropterw volmlla, ii. 135. SAMESREUTHER,~~inheritance in cattle, 8ciur-w plmurum and cineren, ii. 135. i. 455. SCLATER,P. L., on Asinus tczniopus, i. SANDFORD.See DAWRINS. 55. ii. 16 ; on Asinus indicus, ii. 17 ; SANSON,M., origin of the horse, i. 54; striped character of young wild pigs, lumbar vertebra of pigs, i. 77. i. 72 ; osteology of Gallinula nesiotis, SAP, ascent of the, ii. 286. i. 302; on the black-shouldered pea- Saponuria calabrica, i. 463. cock, i. 305-307 ; animals breeding SAPORTA,on Pistacia, i. 431. in Zoological Gardens, ii. 131 ; birds SARDINIA,ponies of, i. 54. breeding in Zoological Gardens, ii. SAM, on the development of the 136; on the breeding of birds in hydroida, ii. 364. captivity, ii. 136, 140. SATIATION of the stigma, i. 434, 435. SCOTCH fir, 1ocaI variation of, i. 386. Saturnia pyri, sterility of, in confine- SCOTCHkail and cabbage, cross between, ment, ii. 141. ii. 76. SAUL, on the management of prize Scorn, JOHN,irregularities in the sex gooseberries, i. 378. of the flowers of maize, i. 339 ; bud- SAUVIGNY,varieties of the gold-fish, i. variation in 1matophyl;um miniatum, 312. i. 411 ; crossing of species of Verbas- SAVAGES,their indiscriminate use of cum, ii. 84, 85; self-sterility of VW- plants as food, i. 325-327 ; fondness bascum, ii. 118; experiments on of, for taming animals, ii. 144. crossing Primuka?, ii. 87 ; reproduc- SAVI,effect of foreign pollen on maize, tion of orchids, ii. 114; fertility of i. 430. Oncidium divaricatum, ii. 147 ; accli- Sazifraga geum, ii. 150. matisation of the sweet pea in India, SAYZIDMOHAMMED MUSARI, on car- ii. 302 ; number of seeds in Acropera rier-pigeons, i. 148; on a pigeon and Gongora, ii. 373. SCKOPE. INDEX. SESCAL. 483 ~-~ - &ROPE, on the Scotch deerhound, ii. of, ii. 229 ; influence of time on, ii. 49, 100. 230, 232; summary of subject, ii. SCUDDER,Dr., on re-growth, ii. 339. 234, 236 ; effects of, in modifying SEBRIGHT,Sir John, effects of close breeds of cattle, i. 96 ; in preserving inter-breeding in dogs, ii. 199 ; care the purity of breeds of sheep, i. taken by,in selection of fowls, ii. 181. 103, 104 ; in producing varieties of Secale cereale, ii. 211. pigeons, i. 222-229; in breediug SEDGWrCK, w., effects of crossing on the fowls, i. 244, 215; in the goose, i. female, i. 436; on the “Porcupine 305; in the cniinry, i. 311 ; in the man,” i. 448 ; on hereditary diseases, gold-fish, i. 312; in the silkworm, i. i. 451; hereditary affections of the 316, 317; contrasted in cabbages and eye, i. 453, ii. 54; inheritance of poly- cereals, i. 341 ; in white mulberry, i. dactylism and anomalies of the ex- 354 ; on gooseberries, i. 378 ; applied tremities, i. 458,459 ; morbid uni- to wheat, i. 335, 336; exemplified formity in the same family, i. 460; in carrots, &e., i. 345; in potato, i. on deaf-mutes, i. 466 ; inheritance of 351 ; in the melon, i. 383 ; in flower- injury to the eye, i. 469; atavism ing plants, i. 388 ; in the hyacinth, i. in diseases and anomalies of structure, 395 ; applied to bud-varieties of ii. 8 ; non-reversion to night-blind- plants, i. 443 ; illustrations of, ii. new, ii. 10 ; sexual limitation of the 4 16- 424. transmission of peculiarities in man, SELECTION, sexual, ii. 51. ii. 48, 49; ou the effects of hard- SELF-IMPOTENCE in plants, ii. 112- drinking, ii. 280 ; inherited baldness 122; in individual plants, ii. 117- with deficiency of teeth, ii. 319, 320; 120; of hybrids, ii. 158. occurrence of a molar tooth in place SELWYN,Nr., on the Dingo, i. 26. of an incisor, ii. 375 ; diseases occur- SELYS-LONGCHAMPS, on hybrid ducks, ring in alternate generations, ii. 396. i. 199, ii. 20, 140; hybrid of the QEDILLOT, on the.remova1 of portions of hook-billed duck and Egyptian goose, bone, ii. 286 i. 296. SEEDS,early selection of, ii. 188; rudi- SERINGE, on the St. Vale‘ry apple, i. 371. mentary, in grapes, ii. 306 ; relative SERPENT melon, i. 383, ii. 364. position of, in the capsule, ii. 337. SERRES, OLIVIER DE, wild poultry in SEEDSand buds, close analogies of, i. Guiana, i. 249. 444. SESAMUM, white-seeded, antiquity of SEEMANN,B., crossing of the wolf and the, ii. 425. Esquimaux dogs, i. 22. Yetaria, found in the Swiss lake-dwell- SEGREGATIONof characters, i. 425,439. ings, i. 335. SELBY,P. J., on the bud-destroying SETTEGAST, sheep poisoned by buck- habits of the bullfinch, ii. 217. wheat, ii. 331. SELECTION,ii. 176-236 ; methodical, i. SETTERS, degeneration of, in India, j. 224, ii. 178-195; by the ancients 39 ; Youatt’s remarks on, i. 43. and semi-civilised people, ii. 185-195 ; SEX, secondary characters of, latent, ii. of trifling characters, ii. 193-195; 26, 27; of parents, influence of, on unconscious, i. 224, 227, ii. 158, hybrids, ii. 255. 195-202 ; effects of, shown by differ- SEXUAL characters, sometimes lost in ences in most valued parts, ii. 202- domestication, ii, 50. 205; qroduced by accumulation of SEXUAL limitation of characters, ii. 47- variability, ii. 205-208; natural, as 51. affecting domestic productions, ii. SEXUAL peculiarities, induced by do- 169-174, 209-219; as the origin of mestication in sheep, i. 98 ; in fowls, species, genera, and other groups, ii. i. 264-267 ; transfer of, i. 268-270. 425-428 ; circumstances fttvourable SEXUAL variability in pigeons, i. 169, to, ii. 219-226 ; tendency of, towards 170. extremes, ii. 226-229 : possible limit SEXUAL selection, ii. 51. 484 SHADDOCE. INDEX. SIZE.

~ ~ SHADDOCK,i. 355. 83; variability of wheat, i. 410; SHAILER,Mr., on the moss-rose, i. 405. continous variation of wheat: ii. 228. SHAN ponies, striped, i. 61. SHORT,I)., hybrids of the domestic cat SHANGHAI fowls, i. 237. and Felis ornnta, i. 47. SHANGHAIsheep, their fccundity, i. SIAM, cats of, i. 46 ; horses of, i. 59. 101. SIBERIA, northern range of wild horses SIIEEP,disputed origin of, i. 97 ; early in, i. 56. domestication of, i. 98 ; large-tailed, SICHEL,J., on the deafness of white i. 98, 102, ii. 269; vmiations in cats with blue eyes, ii. 323. horns, mamms, and other characters SIDNEY,S., on the pedigrees of pigs, of, i. 99; sexual characters of, induced i. 447 ; on cross-reversion in pigs, ii. by domestication, ibid. ; adaptation 8 ; period of gestation in the pig, i. of, to climate and pasture, i. 100, 77 ; production of breeds of pigs by 101 ; periods of gestation of, i. 101 ; intercrossing, i. 82, ii. 73; fertility effect of heat on the fleece of, i. 102, of the pig, ii. 90; effects of inter- 103, ii. 268 ; effcct of selection on, i. breeding on pigs, ii. 101-102; on the 103-lG5 ; “ ancon”or “otter” breeds colours of pigs, ii. 195, 214. of, i. 104; “hlauchamp-merino,” i. SIEBOLD, on the sweet potato, ii. 209. 104, 11%; cross of German and SIEBOLD,CARL vON, on parthenogenesis, merino, ii. 61;; black, of the Taren- ii. 353. tino, ii. 212 ; Ibrakool, ii. 268; SiZene, contabesrence in, ii. 149. Jaffna, with callosities on the knees, SILK-FOWLS, i. 242, ii. 42, 44. ii. 292; Chinese, ii. 306; Danish, of SILK-MOTH, Arrindy, ii. 296, 303; the Bronze period, ii. 423 ; polydac- Tarroo, ii. 141. tylism in, i. 459; occasiond pro- SILK-MOTHS,i. 316-321 ; domesticated, duction of horns in hornless breeds species of, i. 316; history of, i. 317; of, ii. 3 ; reversion of colour in, ibid. ; causes of modification in, isid. ; influence of male, on offspring, ii. 45 ; differences presented by, i. 317-321 ; sexual differences in, ii. 49 ; influence crossing of, ii. 76 ; disease in, ii. 213 ; of crossing or segregation on, ii. 63, effects of disuse of parts in, ii. 288; 73, 80, 81 ; interbreeding of, ii. 98, selection practised with, ii. 181,183; 99; effect of nourishment on the v:iriation of, ii. 222; parthenogenesis fertility of, ii. 90; value of, cross- in, ii. 357. bred, ii. 99 ; diminished fertility SILKWORJIS,variations of, i. 316-318 ; of, under certain conditions, ii. 145; yielding white cocoons, less liable to unconscious selection of, ii. 198; disease, ii. 330. natmxl selection in breeds of, ii. 210, SILVER-GREYrabbit, i. 112, 114, 125. 212 ; reduction of bones in, ii. 298 ; SImiox, on the raising of eggs of the individual differences of, ii. 238 ; silk-moth in China, ii. 181. local changes in the fleece of, in Eng- SIMOSDS,J. B., period of maturity in land, ii. 268; partial degeneration of, various breeds of cattle, i. 90; differ- in Australia, ibid. ; correlation of ences in the periods of dentition in horns and fleece in, ii. 31 8 ; feeding sheep, i. 100 ; on the teeth in cattle, on flesh, ii. 293; acclimatisation of, sheep, &c., ii. 313 ; on the breedirg ii. 296; momtain, resistance of, to of superior rams, ii. 180. severe weather, ii. 303 ; white, poi- SIMPSON,Sir J., regenerative power of soned byHype,.icum crispurn. ii. 331. the human embryo, ii. 358. SHEEPdogs, resembling wolves, i. 24 ; Siredon, breeding in the brancniferous mutilated tail inherited, i. 470. stage, ii.,379. ;HELLS, sinistral and dextral, ii. 28. SISKIN,breeding in captivity, ii. 137. AIIRLEY,E. P., on the fallow-deer, ii. Sivatherium, resemblance of the, to 81, 99. Niata cattle, i. 93. hIRREFF, hfr., new varieti as of wheat, SIZE,difference of, an obstacle to crosN- i. 332, 334; on crossing wheat, ii. ing, ii. 79. SKIN. INDEX. SPENCER. 485

SKIN,and its appendages, homologous, non-inheritance of colour in, i. 464 ; ii. 317 j hereditary affections of the, peloric, crossed with the normal ii. 55. form, ii. 46, 71 ; asymmetrical SKIRVINQ,R. S., on pigeons settling on variation of the, ii. 314. trees in Egypt, i. 190. SOIL, adaptation of plums to, i. 368 ; SKULL,characters of the, in breeds of influence of, on the zones of pelar- dogs, i. 35 ; in breeds of pigs, i. 74 ; goiiiums, i. 390; on roses, i. 391 ; on in rabbits, i. 121-126,135; in breeds the variegation of leaves, i. 409 ; ad- of pigeons, i. 172, 173; in breeds of vantages of change of, ii. 137-130. fowls, i. 273-279; in ducks, i. 296, SOIL and climate, effects of, on straw- 207. berries, i. 375. SKULLand horns, correlation of the, ii. Solanum, non-intercrossing of species of. 327. ii. 68. SKYLARK,ii. 137. Solanum tuberosum, i. 350, 351, 410. SLEEMAN,on the cheetah, ii. 133. SOLID-HOOFED pigs, i. 78. SLOE, i. 366. SOLOMON,his stud of horses, i. 57. SMALL-POX,ii. 372. SOMERVILLE,Lord, on the fleece of SYITER(pigeon), i. 164. Merino sheep, i. 103; on crossing SMITH,Sir A., on Caffrarian cattle, i. sheep, ii. 99; on selection of sheep, 91; on the use of numerous plants ii. 179; diminished fertility of Merino as food in South Africa, i. 325. sheep brought from Spain, ii. 145. SMITH,Colonel HAMILTON,on the odour SOOTY fowls, i. 243, 2G9. of the jackal, i. 31 ; on the origin of Sorghum, i. 396. the dog, i. 16; wild dogs in St. SOTO, FERDINANDDE, on the cultivation Domingo, i. 28 ; on the Thibet mas- of native plants ill Florida, i. 329. tifl and the alco, i. 29 ; development SPAIN, hawthorn monogynous in, i. 357. of the fifth toe in the hind feet of SPALLANZANI, on feral rabbits in Li- mastiffs, i. 37; diff’erences in the pari, i. 118; experiments on sala- skull of dogs, i. 35; history of the manders, ii. 283, 357, 355 ; experi- pointer, i. 44; on the ears of the ments in feeding a pigeon with meat, dog, ii. 291 ; on the breeds of horses, ii. 294. i. 51; origin of the horse, i. 53; SPANIELS, in India, i. 39; King Charles’s, dappling of horses, i. 58; striped i. 43 j degeneration of, caused by in- horses in Spain, i. 61; original colour terbreeding, ii. 100. of the horse, i. 63 ; on horses scraping SPANISHfowls, i. 237, 263,268; figured, away snow, i. 56 ; on Asinw hemionus, i. 238 ; early development of sexual ii. 17 ; feral pigs of Jamaica, i. 8G, chai acters in, i. 263 ; furculum of, 81. figured, i. 281. SMITH,Sir J. E., production of necta- SPECIES, difficulty of distinguishing rines and peaches by the same tree, from varieties, i. 4; conversion of i. 361; on Viola amcena, i. 392; varieties into, i. 5; origin of, by sterility of Vinca rrLinor in England, natural selection, ii. 410 ; by mutual ii. 154. sterility of varieties, ii. 169-172. SMITH,J., development of the ovary in SPENCER,Lord, on selection in breeding, Bonatea speciosa by irritation of the ii. 179. stigma, i. 434. SPENCER,HERBERT, on the “survival of SXITlX, N. H., influence of the bull the fittest,” i. 6 ; increase of fertility 4‘ Favourite” on the breed of Short- by domestication, ii. 89; on life, ii. horn cattle, ii. 40. 130, 161 ; changes produced by ex- SMITH,W., on the intercrossing of ternal conditions, ii. 270; effects of strawberries, i. 372. use on organs, ii. 286 ; ascent of the SNAKE-RAT,ii. 64, 65. sap in trees, ibld.; correlation ex- SNAKES,form of the viscera in, ii. 336. emplified in the Irish clk, ii. 327, 328 ; SNAPDRAGON,bud-variation in, i. 407 ; on “ physiological I nits,” ii. 370 ; 486 SI’ERMATOPIIOREB. INDEX. STRIPES.

antagonism of growth and reproduc- individual, ii. 146 ; resulting from tion, ii. 379. propagation by buds, cuttings, bulbs, SPERMATOPHORESof the cephalopoda, &c., ii. 153 ; in hybrids, ii. 162-165, ii. 379. 383, 405, 406 ; in specific hybrids of SPERMATOZOIDS,ii. 356, 357. pigeons, i. 203; as connected with SPIIINGIDB%sterility of, in captivity, natural selection, ii. 169-173. ii. 141. STERNUM,characters of the, in rabbits, SPIKOLA,on the injurious effect pro- i. 128; in pigeons, i. 177, 184; in duced by flowering buckwheat on fowls, i. 282, 288 ; effects of disuse white pigs, ii. 331. on the, i. 180, 184-188. SPITZdog, i. 32. STEWART,H., on hereditary disease, ii. 55. SPOONER,W. C., cross-breeding of STIGMA,variation of the, in cultivated sheep, i. 104, ii. 73, 74, 99; on the Cucurbitacere, i. 382 ; satiation of effects of crussing, ii. 74, 75; on the, i. 434, 435. crossing cattle, ii. 96 ; individual STOCKHOLM,fruit-trees of, ii. 297. sterility, ii. 146. STOCKS,bud-variation in, i. 407 ; effect SPORES,reproduction of abnormal forms of crossing upon the colour of the by, i. 408. seed of, i. 429 ; true by seed, i. 463 ; SPORTS, i. 397 ; in pigeons, i. 223. crosses of, ii. 71 ; varieties of, p:o- SPOT pigeon, i. 163, 217. duced by selection, ii. 204 ; reversion SPRENGEL,C. K., on dichogamous plants, by the upper seeds in the pods of, ii. ii. 68 ; on the hollyhock, ii. 86 j on 340. the functions of flowers, ii. 159. STOCKTON,HOUOIT, direct action of SPROULE,Mr., transmission of hare-lip, pollen, i. 431. i. 466. STOKES,Prof., calculation of the chance SPURS,of fowls, i. 267; development of transmission of abnormal peculi- of, in hens. ii. 310. arities in man, i. 449. SQUASHES, i. 381. STOLONS,variations in the production SQUINTING,hereditary, i. 453. of, by strawberries, i. 375. SQUIRRELS,generally sterile in cap- STOMACH,structure of the, affected by tivity, ii. 1S5. food, ii. 292. SQUIRRELS,flying, breeding in confine- STONEin the bladder, hereditary, i. 452, ment, ii. 135. ii. 55. “ STAARHALSIGE Taube,” i. 169. STONEIIENC~E,on maturity of the dog, SrAG, one-horned, supposed heredity of i. 36 ; inherited effects of injury, i. character in, i. 456 ; degeneracy of, 470; cross between bulldog and in the Highlands, ii. 192. greyhound, ii. 65 ; close interbreed- S‘PAMENS, occurrence of rudimentary, ing of greyhound, ii. 100; fleetness ii. 307 ; conversion of, into pistils, i. of race-horses, ii. 229. 389 ; into petals, ii. 386. QTORER, J., pedigree of cattle, ii. 96. Stuphylea, ii. 152. STRAWBERRIES,i. 378-376 ; remark- STEENSTRUP, Prof., on the dog of the able varieties of, i. 374, 375; haut- Danish Middens, i. 18; on the ob- bois dicecious, i. 375 ; selection in, ii. liquity of flounders, ii. 28. 184; probable further modification STEINAN,J., on hereditary diseases, i. of, ii. 229 ; variegated, effects of soil 451, ii. 55. on, ii. 263. STEPHENS,J. F., on the habits of the STRICKLAND,A., on the domestication BombycidE, i. 291. of dnser ferns, i. 303 ; on the colour STERILITY, in dogs, consequent on Close of the bill and legs in geese, i. 304. confinement, i. 33 ; comparative, of Strictcenns, i. 192. crosses, ii. 82, 83; from changed STRIPESon young of wild swine, i. 80 ; conditions of life, ii. 130-149; oc- of domestic pips of Turkey, West- curring in the descendants of wild phalia, and the Zambesi, ibid.; of animals bred in captivity, ii. 143; feral swine of Jamaica and Nea - BTBIX. INDEX. TEETH. 4 87 Granada, i. 81 ; of fruit and flowers, STIIICS,Colonel, on a pariah dog with i. 430, ii. 11 ; in horses, i. 58-63 ; in crooked legs, i. 17 ; on sm:ill Intli;in the ass, i. 66, ti7 ; production of, by asses, i. 6L1 ; on Gallits souncrrttii, i. crossing species of Equidae, ii. lti, 17. 2-13 ; on the voice ot' the 1nili:in liulni Strix grallaria, ii. 292. cock, i. 272 ; fkhrtility of the fbwl in Strix passerina, ii. 137. most climnte?;, ii. 1-44. " STRUPP-'rAUBE,"i. 165. SYJIJII:TI

i. 35 ; deficiency of, in naked Turkish tance of some breeds of pigeons to dogs, i. 36 ; period of appearance of, cross, i. 202; sterility of hybrid in breeds of dogs, ibid.; precocity of, turtledoves, i. 203 ; variations of in highly-bred animals, ii. 313 ; cor- Gallus bankiva, i. 247 ; on a buff- relation of, with hair, ii. 319 ; double coloured breed of turkeys, i. 309; row of, with redundant hair, in Julia number of eggs laid by the peahen, Pastrana, ii. 321 ; affected in form ii. 91 ; breeding of guans in captivity, by hereditary syphilis and by pulmo- ii. 139; behaviour of grouse in cap- nary tubercle, ii. 325 ; developed on tivity, ibid. ;sterility of the partridge the palate, ii. 385, in captivity, i6id. TEGETMEIER, Mr., on a Cat with moll- TENDRILS in Cucurbitacea, i. 381, ii. strous teeth, i. -50; on a swift-like 306. pigeon, i. 165; on sexual colours, i. TENNENT, Sir J. E., on the goose, i. 170; naked young of some pigeons, 302; on the growth of the apple in i. 179 ; fertility of hybrid pigeons, i. Ceylon, ii. 266 j on the Jaffna sheep, 201; on white pigeons, ii. 215; re- ii. 292. version in crossed breeds of fowls, i. reredo, fertilisation in, ii. 356, 251-256; chicks of the white silk- TERRIERS, wry-legged, ii. 232 ; white. fowl, i. 261; development of the subject to distemper, ii. 330. cranial protuberance in Polish fowls, TESCHEMACHER,on a husked form of i. 262; on the skull in the Polish maize, i. 339. fowl, i. 268, 275; on the intelligence TESSIER, on the period of gestation of of Polish fowls, i. 276; correlation the dog, i. 30; of the pig, i. 77 ; in of the cranial protuberance and crest cattle, i. 90 ; experiments on change in Polish fowls, i. 289 ; development of soil, ii. 129. of the web in the feet of Polish fowls, Tetrao, breeding of species of, in capti- i. 272 ; early development of several vity, ii. 139. peculiarities in Spanish cocks, id263 ; Tetrapteryx paradisea, ii. 140. on the comb in Spanish fowls, i. 266 ; 2'eucrum c rmprmulatum, pelorism in, ii on the Spanish fowl, ii. 296 ; yarieties 337. of game-fowls, i. 264; pedigrees of TEXAS,feral cattle in, i. 89. game-fowls, i. 447; assumption of THEOGNIS, his notice of the domestic female plumage by a game-cock, i. fowl, i. 258. 265 ; natural selection in the game- THEOPHRASTUS,his notice of the peach, cock, ii. 210; pugnacity of game- ii. 299. hens, i. 268; length of the middle Thesium, ii. 274. toe in Cochin fowls, i. 272 ; origin of THOMPSON,Mr., on the peach and nec- the Sebright bantam, ii. 29; differ- tarine, i. 363 ; on the varieties of the ences in the size of fowls, i. 270; apricot, i. 365 ; classification of varie- effect of crossing in fowls, 6id. ; ii. ties of cherries, i. 369 ; on the "Sister 74 ; effects of interbreeding in fowls, ribston-pippin," i. 372; on the ii. 105,106 ; incubation hy mongrels varieties of the gooseberry, i. 376, of non-sitting races of fowls, ii. 18 ; 377. inverse correlation of crest and comb lko~pso~,WILLIAM, on the pigeons of in fowls, i. 288 ; occurrence of pen- Islay, i. 193; feral pigeons in Scot- cilled feathers in fowls, ii. 14 ; on a land, i. 199 ; colour of the bill and variety of the goose from Sebastopol, legs in geese, i. 304; breeding of i. 304; on the fertility of the pea- Tetrao scotius in captivity, ii. 139 ; hen, ii. 91; on the intercrossing of destruction of black fowls by the bees, ii, 107. osprey, ii. 215. hMMINCK, origin of domestic Cats, i. 46; THORN, grafting of early and late, i. origin of domestic pigeons, i. 189 ; on 386 ; Glastonbury, i. 387. Columba guinea, i. 192; on Columba THORNB, reconversion of, into branchw, leucocephala, ibid. ; asserted reluc- in pear trees, ii. 310 THBCRII. INDEX. TRJMOCRII. 489 ------THRU$H,asserted reproduction of the TRI.:X~LI;Y,on reproduction in Hydra,

Tlujrc penduh or filiformis, a variet,? of (‘TRIXOLTISI” silkworms, i. 318, 319. 1: orimtalis. i. 386. Triclwsantlccs mujuina, i. 383. THURET,on the division of the zoospores TRICKS,inheritance of, i. 450,431. of an alga. ii. 372. Trifoliwn minus and rcpns, ii. 147. THWAITES,G. H., on the cats of Ceylon, TRIaionrir:c plants, contlitions of repro- i. 48 ; on a twin seed of Fuchsia coc- duction in, ii. 165-169. cinca and fulgcns, i. 426. TIUSTRAY,H. B., selection of the drome- TIBURTIUS,experiments in rearing wild dary, ii. 190. ducks, i. 292. Triticum dicoccum, i. 337. TIGER,rarely fertile in captivity, ii. Triticum monococcum, i. 337. 133. Tritincm spelta, i. 337. Tigridia conchiflora, bud-variation in, i. Tritintin turgidum, i. 337. 41 2. Triticum uulgare, wild iu Asia, i. 330. TIME,imprirtance of, in the production TRITON, breeding in the branchiferoua of races, ii. 230. stage, ii. 379. TINZMANN,self-impotence in the potato, “ TROMMEL-TAUBE,”i. 162. ii. 118. “ TRONFO” pigeon, i. 151. TISSUES,affinity of, for special organic TropLeolum, ii. 11. substances, ii. 375. TropLeolum minus and mijus, reversion TITMICE,destructive to thin-shel!ed in hybrids of, i. 425. walnuts; i. 379 ; attacking nuts, i6id.; TROCJBETZKOY,Prince, experiments attacking peas, ii. 216. with pear-trees at MOSCOW,ii. 297. TOBACCO,crossing of varieties of, TROUSSEAU,Prof., pathological resem- ii. 87; cultivation of, in Sweden, ii. blance of twins, ii. 239. 298. TRUMPETERpigeon, i. 162; known in TOBOLSK,red-coloured cats of, i. 49. 1735, i. 217. TOES, relative length of, in fowls, i. TSCHARNER,H. A. DE, graft-hybrid pro- 272 ; development of fifth, in dogs, ii. duced by inosculation in the vine, i. 309. 419. TOLLET,Mr., his selection of cattle, ii. TSCHUDI,on the naked Peruvian dog, 183. i. 24; extinct varieties of maize TOYATO,ii. 68. from Peruvian tombs, i. 338, ii. TOMFS, inheritancc of dental malforma- 421. tions, i. 452. TUBERS,bud-variation by, i. 489-41 1. TOMTITS.See TITMICE. TUCKERMAN,Mr., sterility of Carex TONGUE,relation of, to the beak in rigda, ii. 154. pigeons, i. 77. TUFTEDducks, i. 295. TOOTH,occurrence of a molzr, in place TULIPS,variability of, i. 394; bud-rsna- of an incisor, ii. 385. tion in, i. 411,412 ; influence of soil 6‘ TORFSCHWEIN,”i. 7 1. in “breaking,” i. 411. TRAIL,R., on the union of half-tubers TUMBLERpigeon, i. 156-161 ; short- of different kinds of potatoes, i. faced, figured, i. 160; skull figured, 420. i. 172 j lower jaw figured, i. 173 j TREES,varieties of, suddenly ploduced, scapula and furculum figured, i. 176 ; i. 384; weeping or pendulous, i. 385 ; early knolvn in India, i. 217 j history fastigate or pyramidal, ibid. ; with of, i. 219; sub-breeds of, i. 230; variegated or changed foliage, aid. ; young, unable to break the eggshell, early or late in leaf, i. 386 ; forest, ii. 211 j probable further modification non-application of selection to, ii. of, ii. 229. 223. “ TEMMLER”(pigeons), i. 156. “TRENBLEUR” (pigeons), i. 153. TUMOURS,ovarian, occurrence of hairs 490 TOEBIT. INDEX. VARIETIES. ----- and teeth in, ii. 365 j polypoid, origin Uhuscarnpestris and cflusa, hybrids of, of. ii. 377. ii. 111. TUR~IT(pigeon), i. 156, 219. UNIFORMITYof character, maintained TURKEY,domestic, origin of, i. 308; by crossing, ii. 62-67. crossing of, with n'orth Amwican wild UNITSof the body, functional independ- turkey, i. 308, 309 ; breeds of, i. 308; ence of the, ii. 364-366. crested white cock, i. 309 ; wild, cha- UNITYor plurality oforigin oforganisms, racters of, i. 309, 310; degeneration i. 13. of, in India, i. 310; ii. 267; f.'11 '1 ure UREA,secretion of, ii. 375. of eggs of, in Delhi, ii. 145 ; feral, on USE and disuse of parts, effects of, ii. 285, the l'arana, i. 199; chaiige produced 293, 345, 346, 413,414; in rabbits, i. in, by domestication, ii. 250. 129-134; in ducks, i. 299-301. TURKEY,striped young pigs in, i. 80. UTILITY,considerations of, leading to " TURUISCHETAUBE," i. 146. uniformity, ii. 227. TURNER(pigeon), i. 164. TURNER, c., on the hollyhock, i. 86. VALENTIN,experimental production of TURNER,W., on cells, ii. 366. double monsters by, ii. 385. TURNIPS, origin of, i. 34.1 ; reversion in, Vallota, ii. 121. ii. 5 ; run wild, ii. 7 ; crosses of, ii. 71, VAN BECK, BARBARA,3 hairy-faced 74 ; Swedish, preferred by hares, ii. woman, i. 448. 2 17 ; acclimatisation of, in India, ii. VAN MONS, on wild fruit-trees, i. 329, 305. ii. 218; production of varieties of the TURNSPIT,on an Egyptian monument, vine, i. 353 ; correlated variability i. 17 ; crosses of the, ii. 70. in fruit-trees, ii. 324; production of TURTLE-DOVE,white and colaured, almond-like fruit by peach-seedling, crossing of, ii. 70. i. 359. Turtur auritus, hybrids of, with T. l'awssa, specim of, not copulating in carnbayensis and T. srcratmsis, 1. captivity, ii. 141. 203. VARIABILITY, i. 4, ii. 366-369,388-390, Turtur risorius, crossing of, with the 401-416 ; causes of, ii. 237-255 ; cor- common pigeon, i. 202; hybrids of, related, ii. 811-332, 346, 347, 415, with T. vulgaris, ibid. 416; law of, equable, ii. 344, 345; Turtur suratensis, sterile hybrids of, necessity of, for selection, ii. 174; with I: vuhjaris, i. 203 ; hybrids of, of selected characters, ii. 225; of with T. auritus, ibid. multiple homologous parts, ii. 334. Turtur vulgaris, crossing of, with the VARIATION, laws of, ii. 283-948 ; con- common pigeon, i. 203 ; hybrid of, tinuity of, ii. 227 ; possible limitr- with 7: risorius, ibid. ;sterile hytirids tion of, ii. 228, 413, 414 ; in domestic of, with T. suratensis and Ectopistcs cats, i. 47-50; origin of breeds of migratorius, ibid. cattle by, i. 91 ; in osteological cha- TUSKSof wild and domesticated pigs, i. racters of rabbits, i. 120-136; of 79, no. important organs, i. 382 ; analogous Tussilayo farfara, variegated, i. 410. or parallel, i. 340-343 ; in horses, i. TWIN-SEEDof Fuchsia coccilaea and 58; in the horse and ass, i. 67; in fulgens, i. 426. fowls, i. 255-258; in geese, i. 303; TYERMAN,B., on the pigs of the Pacific exemplified in the production of Islands, i. 73, ii. 64; on the dogs of fleshy stems in cabbages, &c., i. 344 ; the Pacific Islands, ihid. in the peach, nectarine, and apricot, TYLOR,Mr., on the prohibition of con- i. 363, 365 j in.lividua1, in wheat, i. sanguineous marriages, ii. 103. 331. VARIEGATIONof foliage, i. 409, ii. 151. UDDERS, development of the, ii. 290. VARIETIESand species, resembiance of, Ukx, double-flowered, ii. 151. i. 4, ii. 406-408 ; conversion of, into VARRO. INDEX. VIRGIL. 49 1

species, i. 5; abnormal, ii. 409 ; Verruca, ii. 28, 391. domestic, gradually produced, ii. 411. VERTEBR~E,characters of, in rabbits, i. VARRO, on domestic ducks, i. 291 ; on 126-128; in ducks, i. 297, 298; feral fowls, ii. 7 ; crossing of the number aud variations of, in pigeons, wild and domestic ass, ii. 190. i. 174, 175 ; number and characters VASEY,Mr., on the number of sacral of, in fowls, i. 279-281 ; variability vertebra: in ordinary and humped of number of, in the pig, i. 77. cattle, i. 83 ; on Hungarian cattle, i. VERTUCtI. see PUTSCllE. 84. " VERUGAS,"ii. 266. VAUCIIER, sterility of Ranunculus VESPUCIUS,early coltivation in Brazil, ficaria and Acorus calamus, ii. 154. i. 329. VEGETABLES,cultivated, reversion in, VIBERT'Sexperiments on the cultiva- ii. 7 ; European, culture of, in India, tion of the vine from seed, i. 352. ii. 152, 153. Viburnum opulus, ii. 169, 307. VEITH, Mr., on breeds of horses, i. Vicia sativa, leaflet converted into a 51. tendril in, ii. 386. Verbascum, intercrossing of species of, i. VICUNAS, selection of, ii. 192. 356, ii. 71, 83-85 ; reversion in hy- VILLOSITYof plants, influenced by dry- brids of, i. 425 ; self-sterility of, ii. ness, ii. 267. 118 ; contabescent, wild plants of, ii. VILMORIN, cultivation of the wild 149 ; villosity in, ii. 267. carrot, i. 344, ii. 267; colours of Verbascum austriacum, ii. 117. tulips, i. 412; uncertainty of in- Verbascum blattaria, ii. 83, 84. heritance in balsams and rases, i. VerbascumlycCnitis, ii. 83, 84, 117. 4E1 ; experiments with dwarf varie- Verbascum nigrum, ii. 117. ties of Saponaria calabrica and Tagetes Verbascump!mniceum, ii. 85,118 ; vari- signata, i. 463 ; reversion of flowers able duration of, ii. 295. by stripes and blotches, ii. 11 ; on Vwbascurn thapsw, ii. 84, 118. variability, ii. 250. VERBENAS, origin of, i. 388; white, T'inca minor, sterility in, ii. 154. liability of, to mildew, ii. 213, 330 ; VINE, i. 352-354 ; parsley-leaved, re- scorching of dark, ii. 214,330 ; effect version of, i. 408 ; .grabhybrid pro- of changed conditions of' life on, ii. duced by inosculation in the, i. 419 ; 263. disease of, influenced by colour of VERLOT,on the dark-leaved barberry, grapes, ii. 213, 214; influence of i. 385 ; inheritance of peculiarities climate, &c., on varieties of the, ii. of foliage in trees, ihid. ; produc- 267; diminished extent of cultiva- tion of Kosa cannabifolia by bud-vari- tion of the, ii. 298; acclimatisation ation from R. ulba, i. 406; bud- of the, in the Went Indies, ii. 304. variation in Araliu trifoliuta, i. 408 ; Viola, species of, i. 391. variegation of leaves, ibid. ; colours Viola luteu, different coloured flowers of tulips, i. 412 ; uncertainty of in- in, i. 440. heritance, i. 461; persistency of Viola tricolor, reversion in, ii. 4, 22. white flowers, i. 463 ; peloric flowers VIRCHOW,Prof., on the growth of of Linaria, ii. 32 ; tendency of striped boues, ii. 281, 377 ; on cellular pro- flowers to uniformity of colour, ii. 46; lification, ii. 85 ; independence of Don-intercrossing of certain allied the elements of the body, ii. 364; on plants, ii. 68;sterilityof Primuhwith the cell-theory, ii. 366 ; presence of coloured calyces, ii. 150 ; on fertile hairs and teeth in ovarian turnours, proliferous flowers, ibid. ;on the Irish ii. 365 ; of hairs in the brain, ii. yew, ii. 228; differences in the Cu- 386 ; special affinities of the tissues, mellia, ii. 238; effect of soil on the ii. 355; origin of polypoid excres- variegated strawberry, ii. 263 ; cor- cences and turnours, ii. 377. related variability in plants, ii. 324. VIRGIL,on the selection of seed corn, i. VlILGINIAN. WEBB.

336, ii. 187 ; of cattle and sheep, ii. WALKER, R., reversion in cattle, ii. 8. 186. WALLACE, A. R., on the multiple origin VIRGINIAXIslands, ponies of, i. 54. of the dog, i. 27; on a striped VISION, hereditary peculiarities of, i. Javanese horse, i. 61 ; on the condi- 452,453 ; in amphibious animals, ii. tions of life of feral animals, ii. 6 ; 208 ; varieties of, ii. 290 ; affections artificial alteration of the plumage of organs of, correlated with other of birds, ii. 269 ; on polymorphic peculiarities, ii. 321. butterflies, ii. 894; on reversion, ii. Vitis vinifera, i. 352-354, 399. 41 1 ; on the limits of change, ii. 412. Viuewa, sterility of species of, in cap- WALLACE, Dr., on the sterility of tivity, ii. 134. Sphingids hatched in autumn, ii. VWEL, varieties of the date palm, ii. 141. 243. WACLACHIAN sheep, sexual peculiari- VOGT,on the indications of stripes on ties in the horns of, i. 99. black kittens, ii. 30. WALLFLOWER, bud-variation in, i. 407. VOICE, differences of, in fods, i. 272 ; WALLICH, Dr., on P’hujn pendula or peculiarities of, in ducks, i. 296; in- jliformis, i. 386. heritance of peculiarities of, i. 450. WALNUTS, i. 379, 380 ; thin-shelled, VOLZ,on the history of, the dog, i. 17 ; attacked by tomtits, i. 379 ; ii. 216 ; ancient history of the fowl, i. 258 ; grafting of, ii. 247. domestic ducks unknown to Aristotle, WALSH, B. D., on attacks of insects, i. i. 292; Indian cattle sent to Blace- 371; on galls, ii. 272, 273 ; his donia by Alexander, ii. 186 ; mention “ Law of equable variability,” ii. of mules in the Bible, ii. 186; 344, 345. history of the increase of breeds, ii. WALTHER, F. L., on the history of the 231. dog, i. 17; on the intercrossing ef VON BERG,on Verbascum phceniceum, the zebu and ordinary cattle, i. 87. ii. 295. WARING, Mr., on individual sterility, VOORHELM,G., his knowledge of hya- ii. 146. cinths, i. 395, ii. 238. WATERER, Mr., spontaneous produc- VROLIK, Prof., on polydactylism, i. tion of Cytisus alpino-laburnum, i. 457; influence of the shape of the 416. mother’s pelvis on her child’s head, WATERHOUSE, G. R., on the winter- ii. 336. colouring of Lepus oariubilis, i. 115. WATERTON, C., production of tailless WADE, drooping eyelids trinutmitted, foals, i. 56 ; on taming wild ducks, i. 452. i. 292 ; on the wildness of half-bred WADERS,behaviour of, in confinement, wild ducks, ii. 20 ;assumption of male ii. 140. characters by a hen, ii. 26. WAGNER, MORITZ, oriental dogs, ii. WATSON, H. C., on Eritish wild fruit- 222. trees, i. 329 ; on the non-variation of WAHLENBORG,on the propagation of weeds, i. 335 ; origin of the plum, i. Alpine plants by buds, runners, bulbs, 366; variation in Pyrus malus, i. &c., ii. 154. 370 ; on Viola amnu and tricolor, i. 4‘ WAHLVERWANDTSCHAFT” of Giirtner, 392 ; on reversion in Scotch kail, ii. ii. 164. 35 ; fertility of Draba sylvestris when WALES, white cattle of, in the tenth cultivated, ii. 147; on senerally century, i. 89. distributed British plants, ii. 275. WALICER,A., on intermarriage, i. 436 ; WATTLES,rudimentary, in some fowls, on the inheritance of polydactylism, ii. 306. i. 458. WATTS,Miss, on Sultan fowls, i. 240. WALKER, D., advantage of change of WEBB, JONAS,interbreeding of sheep, soil to wheat, ii. 128. ii. 98. WEBER. INUES. WILLIAMS. 493 - WEBEB, effect of the shape of the ii. 218 ; natural selection in, ibid. ; mother’s pelvis on her child’s head, varieties of, found wild, ii. 248; ii. 336. effects of change of climate on, ii. WEDDERBURN, Mr., correlation of 297 ; ancient variety of, ii. 425. teeth and hair, ii. 319. WIIITBY, Mrs., on the markings of WEEDS, supposed necessity for their silkworms, i. 318 ; on the silk-moth, modification, coincidently with culti- i. 319. vated plants, i. 335. WHITE, Mr., reproduction of supernn- WEEPINGvarieties of trees, i. 385. merary digits after amputation, i. WEEPING habit of trees, capricious in- 459 ; time occupied in the blending heritance of, i. 461,462. of crossed races. ii. 64. WEEVIL, injury done to stone-fruit by, WHITE, GILBERT,‘vegetable diet of dogs, in North America, ii. 217. ii. 293. WEIJENBERGH,on parthenogenesis, ii. WHITE and white-spotted animals, lia- 356. bility of, to disease, ii. 330, 331. WEIR, H., large litter of pigs, ii. 90. WHITE flowers, most truly reproduced WEIR, JENNER, on the japanned pea- by seed, i. 463. cock, i. 306; mare and quagga, i. WICHURA,MAX, on hybrid willows, ii. 435 ; wildness of mule siskins, ii. 20. 25, 111, 255; analogy between the WEISMANN,Prof., reversion from un- pollen of old-cultivated plants and natural conditions, ii. 25 ; isolation, of hybrids, ii. 256. ii. 262 ; dimorphic butterflies, ii. WICKING,Mr., inheritance of the pri- 271 ; causes of variability, ii. 282. mary characters of Columba livia in WELSH cattle, descended from Bos longt cross-bred pigeons, i. 210 ; production frons, i. 85. of a white head in almond tumblers, WEST Indies, feral pigs of, i. 80 ; effect ii. 183. of climate of, upon sheep, i. 102. WICKSTED,Mr., on cases of individual WESTERN,Lord, change effected by, in sterility, ii. 146. pigs, i. 82, 101 ; in the sheep, ii. 182. WIEOMAXN,spontaneous crossing of WESTPHALIA,striped young pigs in, i. blue and white peas, i. 428; crossing 80. of varieties of cabbage, ii. 110; on WESTWOOD,J. O., on peloric flowers of contabescence, ii. 149. Calceolaria, ii. 338. WIGHT, Dr.. sexual sterility of plants WETHERELL,Mr., on inheritance of propagated by buds, &c., ii. 153. mutilations, i. 466. WILCKENS,Dr., effect of previous im- WHATELY, Archbishop, on grafting pregnation, i. 436 ; alpine breeds, ii. early and late thorns, i. 386. 290 ; drooping ears, ii. 291 ; correla- WHEAT,specific unity or diversity of, tion of hair and horns, ii. 318. i. 329, 330,334,335 ; Hasora, i. 335 ; WILDE, Sir W. R., occurrence of Bos presence or absence of barbs in, i. frontosus and longifrons in Irish cran- 331 ; Godron on variations in, ibid. ; noges, i. 85 ; attention paid to breeds varieties of, i. 331, 332 ; effects of ot‘ animals by the ancient Irish, ii. soil and climate on, i. 333 ; deteriora- 187. tion of, i. 334 ; crossing of varieties of, WILDER,Dr. B., on the brain of dogs, ibid., ii. 74, 83, 110; in the Swiss i. 35 ; supernumerary digits, i. 457. lake-dwellings, i. 335-337 ; selection WILDMAN,on the dahlia, ii. 201, 263. applied to, i. 336, ii. 184 ; increased WILDNEEI of the progeny of crossed fertility of hybrids of, with Bgilops, tame animals, ii. 19, 20. ii. 88; advantage of change of WILKES, Capt., on the taming of pi- Soil to, ii. 128; differences of, in geons among the Polynesians, ii. 144. various parts of India, ii. 149 ; con- WILKINSON,J., on crossed cattle, ii. 82. tinuous variation in, ii. 184; red, WILLIAMS,Mr., change of plumage in hardiness of, ii. 215, 330; Fenton, a Hamburgh hen, i. 270. 494 WILLIAMS. INDEX. YOUATT. -.- WILLIAMS, Mr., intercrossing of sti-dw- cross, ii. 15 ; on Mr. Bates’ cattle, ii. berries, i. 374. 96. WILLIAIEON,Capt.,legeneration of dogs WOOLER,W. A., on the young of the in India, i. 39 ; on small Indian asses, Himalayan rabbit, i. 114 ; persistency i. 65. of the coloured calyx in a crossed WILLIAMSON,Rev. W., doubling of polyanthus, i. 389. Anernone coronaria by selection, ii. WOUNDS,healing of, ii. 284. 184. WRIGHT, J., production of crippled WILLOWS,weeping, i. 385; reversion of calves by shorthorned cattle, ii. 97 ; spiral-leaved weeping, i. 408 ; hy- on selection in cattle, ii. 178 ; effect brids of, ii. 255; galls of, ii. 272, of close inter-breeding on pigs, ii. 273. 101; deterioration of game-cocks by WILLUUHBY,F., notice of spot pigeons, close interbreeding, ii. 105. i. 164; on a fantail pigeon, i. 218; WRIGHT,STRETHILL, on the develop- on tumbler pigeons, i. 219 ; on the ment of the hydroida, ii. 364. turbit, ibid. ; on the barb and carrier WYMAN,Dr., on Niata cattle, and on a pigeons, i. 221; on the hook-billed similar malformation in the codfish, duck, i. 291. i. 93; on Virginian pigs, ii. 212; WILMOT,M~.,~~a crestedwhite Turkey- browsing under water, ii. 294. cock, i. 309 ; reversion of sheep in colour, ii. 3. XEN~PHON,on the colours of huiltiiig WIISON, B. O., fertility of hybrids of dogs, ii. 194. humped and ordinary cattle in Tas- XIMENES, Cardinal, regulations for the mania, i. 87. selection of rams, ii. 188. WILSON, Dr., prepotency of the Manx over the common cat, ii. 41. “ YAHU,” the name of the pigeon iu WILSON,JAMES, origin of dogs, i. 16. Persia, i. 163. WILSON,Mr., on prepotency of trans- YAKS,domestication of, i. 86 j selection mission in sheep, ii. 45; on the of white-tailed, ii. 190. breeding of bulls, ii. 180. YAJI, development of axillary bulbs in WINGS,proportionate length of, in dif- the, ii. 153. ferent breeds of pigeons, i. 135,186; YARRELL,Mr., deficiency of teeth in of fowls, effects of disuse on, i. 284, hairless dogs, i. 36, ii. 319 ; on ducks, 285 ; characters and variations of, in i. 294, ii. 250; characters of do- ducks, i. 299-301 ; diminution of, in mestic goose, resembling those of birds of small islands, i. 301, 302. Anser albifrons, i. 303 ; whiteness of WING-FEATHERS,number of, in pigeons, gandcrs, ibid. ; variations in gold- i. 167 ; variability of, in fowls, i. fish, i. 312,313 ; assumption of male 271. plumage by the hen-pheasant, ii. 26 ; WOLF, recent existence of, in Ireland, i. effect of castration upon the cock, ii. 16 ; barking of young, i. 27 ; hybrids 26, 27; breeding of the skylark in of, with the dog, i. 33. captivity, ii. 137; pliimage of the WOLF-DOC),black, of Florida. i. 2?. male linnet in confinement, ii. 141 ; WOLVES,North American, their resem- on the dingo, ii. 251. blance to dogs of the same region, i. YELLOWfever, in Mexico, ii. 266. 21, 22 ; burrowing of, i. 27. YEW, fastigate, ii. 228. WOODBURY,Mr., crossing of the Li- YEW, Irish, hardy in New York, ii.

~rriirinn _ - 2nd__ - rnmmnn- - _..___- - ___hivp . hees.- - __ i. 299. 314, ii. 107 ; variability of bees, i. YEW, weeping, i. 385 ; propgation of, 314. ’ -_ 1 bv seed. i. 461. WOODWARD,S. P., on Arctic Mollusca, YO&, variations of, in the eggs of ii. 244. ducks, i. 295. - YOUATT. INDEX. ZOPIP-TAUBE. 495 variations of the pulsz in breeds of rains in Germany, ii. 180; effect of dogs, i. 37; liability to disease in unconscious selection on sheep, ii. dogs, ibid., ii. 213; inheritance of 198 ; reversion of Leicester sheep on goitre in dogs, i. 455 ; on the grey- the Lammermuir Hills, ii. 209; on hound, i. 35, 43; on Icing Charles’ many-horned sheep, ii. 318 ; redoc- spaniels, i. 43 ; on the setter, ibid. ; tion of bone in sheep, ii. 228; per- on breeds of horses, i. 51 ; variation sist,ency of character in breeds of in the number of ribs in the horse, i. animals in mountainous countries, 52; inheritance of diseases in the ii. 39; on interbreeding, ii. 95; on horse, i. 454, 455; introduction of the power of selection, ii. 178, 179 ; Eastern blood into English horses, ii. slowness of production of breeds, ii. 197, 198; on white Welsh cattle, i. 230 ; passages in the Bible relating 89, ii. 193 ; improvement of British to the breeding of animals, ii. 186. breeds of cattle, i. 96 ; rudiments of YOUNG, J., on the Belgian rabbit, i. 11 0. horns in young hornless cattle, ii. 30, YULE, Capt., on a Burmese hairy family, 306; on crossed cattle, ii. 82, 98; ii. 53, 320. on Bakewell’s long-horned cattle, ii. 96 ; selection of qualities in cattle, ii. IAMBESI,striped young pigs on the, i. 180 ; degeneration of cattle by neg- 80. lect, ii. 225; on the skull in horn- CAMBOS, character of the, ii. 21. less cattle, ii. 326 ; disease of white CARCO, J. G., introduction of rabbits parts of cattle, ii. 331 ; displacement into Porto Santo by, i. 117. of long-horned by short-hornad cattle, Tea altissima, i. 340 i mays, i. 338. ii. 421; on Angola sheep, i. 98; on ZEBU, i. 82; domestication of the, i. the fleece of sheep, i. 1013; correla- 86 ; fertile crossing of, with Euro- tion of horns and fleece in sheep, i. pean cattle, i. 82, ii. 88. 99 ; adaptation of breeds of sheep to IEBRA, hybrids of, with the ass and climate and pasture, i. 100; horns of mare, ii. 16. Wallachian sheep, i. 99; exotic Gphyranthes candida, ii. 147. sheep in the Zoological Gardens, i. Zinnia, cultivation of, ii. 249. 100, ii. 296 ; occurrence of horns in COLLINGER on Malayhn penguin ducks, hornless breeds of sheep, ii. 3; on i. 295. the colour of sheep, ibid. ; on inter- SOOSPORE, division of, in Alga, ii. Z72. bree3ing sheep, ii. 98; on Merino ‘ ZOPF-I’AUBE,” i. 161.